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Digg 4 Alpha

The guys over at Digg have been gracious enough to invite me as one of the first people to use the new Digg 4 alpha. Let me say, the design and speed of the new Digg is simply amazing. It really shows how awesome a Cassandra backend can be. I’m glad to be choosing a [...]

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iPad, iAd and No Bandwidth

Unless you’ve been under the rock for the past couple of weeks, by now you should have heard about AT&T killing the unlimited data plans for both the iPhone and iPad, then grandfathering in the iPad plans for people who buy theirs before the deadline and finally caving in and allowing a 30 day “grace” [...]

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iPad ‘Unlimited’ Data Plan Extended To July

I was reading Engadget.com today and I came across this tidbit about AT&T deciding to allow iPad orders before July 7th to continue to have the unlimited data plan. For those of you that read my iPad vs. AT&T blog post it highlights all of the points that AT&T seems to have forgotten when they [...]

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iPad vs. AT&T – Are Consumers The Winner?

I can be somewhat of am impulse buyer. This afternoon, after I was reading more and more into how AT&T is pulling a bait and switch, I placed a few phone calls to the Apple retail stores in and around New York City. I have been interested in purchasing a device ever since I got [...]

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I Am Writer #iamwriter #iamreader #iampoet

For as long as I can remember writing has always been an intimate experience for me. There is not a single day that goes by where my mind does not wander, painting a story in my head involving the strangers in my morning commute, an intricate plot that I sometimes get a little carried away [...]

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Twitter Competing With Themselves

The Twitter service is agnostic to your special characters that we use as annotations to #topics and @people. The community came up with these “features” as a way to facilitate conversation on a service that was meant to broadcast our daily meanderings. One of the main reasons why Twitter took off was its easy to use, well [...]

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