iPhone iGoogle iDead???

As an avid iPhone & iGoogle user I have become attached to the iPhone optmized iGoogle. It is part of why I like the service so much because my PC homepage and my mobile homepage had all the great content and gadgets on it. BUT as of Jan 16, 2009 Google has killed the optimized version. They choose to instead give the same treatment to iPhone users as regular mobile users. I am not sure if they thought no one would notice but it's big news apparently.

Just to give you an idea of how badly their regular mobile version is I will quote Google themselves from Jan 2008.

"The standard mobile version of iGoogle available at http://google.com/m is much more limited: it only displays feeds and a very small number of gadgets, you need to manually add items to your page and you can't change the number of items displayed from a feed. Another limitation is that it only works in the US."
Source: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/01/igoogle-for-iphone.html

You can see all the people complaining here. It's amazing that they would turn such a good feature off!

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=6ff62ce418848f69&hl=en

I sure hope this comes back because iGoogle is not as interesting if I can't use it on my mobile phone.

Here's hoping!

iPhone Optimized:


Mobile Version:

Terapeak & eBay Election Details

Our great team at Terapeak has put together an Election predictor using eBay data to try to predict which candidate is more popular online. We created a widget version and a index version. You can see the index version online here.

Relying on Kyte is not a good idea?

Well I was at the eBay Developer 2008 conference about a week or so ago and used Kyte to record a session or two. It's interesting because the live streaming version via Kyte looked great and there were many people watching as it was going live. Now when you go to re-play them the quality is pretty poor. I'm not sure if it's a setting somewhere or what is the matter but as you can see two posts below the quality is all jittery and lagged.

I thought that Kyte would be a good choice after reading this article linked to from techmeme but afterwords I regret using Kyte and would have preferred trying something else instead. July 11th should bring some interesting solutions for iPhone users such as Qik. I will give this a try next for my next conference.

iCall > Skype? Where are you skype?

I saw this interesting post on slashdot.org (slashdot beat techmeme on this article) mentioning a new application for the iPhone called iCall. This is the type of app I would expect would be Skype's first priority for July 11th yet I haven't heard anything from them on this. I know they are working on something because my conversations with many Skype employees seem to indicate this. In theory you'd expect eBay would demo this type of app at the Apple WWDC instead of an eBay shopping app as it seems more applicable in my opinion. I can see it being valuable to buy from eBay while on the go if the experience is all there. We'll have to wait and see on July 11th.


iCall VoIP on the Apple iPhone from Arlo & Andy on Vimeo.

eBay Devcon 2008: Web2.0, Lies, Mysteries, and Opportunities

Rolf Sky, of eBay, gives a session on web2.0 technologies at eBay Devcon 2008.

eBay Devcon Keynote Live Feed using Kyte

Watch the eBay Devcon Keynote live from my laptop webcam. I'm recording it using Kyte. Let's see how well this plays out :). It should start any moment.

/Andrew

Blogging Live from eBay Devcon 2008

Thank you for attending my eBay Devcon presentation on "New Innovative Research Applications." If you missed the sessions, I will post the slides online. During the session we discussed the new Terapeak iPhone index which you can see below. Please take a look and try embedding it into your blog. (make sure to set your eBay affiliate campaign ID!) You can also view the full page index at www.terapeak.com/iphone.