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My wife and I have decided to drop T-Mobile and go for the new iPhone that is rumored to be coming out on June 9th. We've about had it with t-mobile lame reception in our neighborhood, the poor customer service, the overage charges, and the best tethered modem speeds that I can get via T-mobile is GMRS which is only good enough to do SSH over, not any web browsing or anything better. Also, my wife is always struggling with her nokia phone - they're small and they work, but they're also clunky and about 15 year-old technology.

For those of you who don't know about the new iPhone that's supposed to come out on the 9th, the hardware is about the same as the rest of the 'next gen' phones that's coming out (3G, GPS, touch-screen, full web browsing, etc ...) but the software is very easily upgradable, it's very rugged, it's not v 1.0 of the phone (I tried to hold my breath and not be an early-adopter) and it's also an iPod. I'm going to try to get AT&T to sell me two phones (not sure if there's a limit yet) and a family plan with data) to get the full feel of the capabilities of the phone.

I'll post another note when we've got the phones.

I read a TON of RSS feed stuff.  I read RSS stuff from all over the place.  I use Google Reader http://www.google.com/reader but I've got limited time to scan all of my RSS stuff and way too much info to wade through.  I built my own RSS dupe-finder and it was working well for about 6 months, but I decided to try http://feedhub.com a while ago to do the same job.  When I first tried FeedHub, their servers were not super stable (they still are unreachable on occasion when I need to leave feedback (thumbs up/down), but it's minor enough to live with.  The service collects feeds from all over the place and can use statistics and heuristics to only give me the "top 100" or only like 50% of my daily articles.  If I have less time, I crank it down and FeedHub gives me only what I can ingest.  I'm not going to go into the details of how FeedHub works - try it out yourself and see if you like it.  If you need every article from a certain source, keep it out of FeedHub, but if you just want to get the most important news from 20+ news sources, FeedHub is your answer.  It nukes most dupes.  It gives me an option to move priorities around depending on topics or popularity, etc ...  Very well done!  :)

Ok, I bought an LG 1080p 42" LCD HDTV last month to replace our aging SONY 53" rear-projection 4:3 television and after a few intimate weeks with it, I've got a few thoughts about HDTV.

I love PIXAR movies just like the next guy and my kid loves them too. I've got a PS3 which plays blu-ray movies and there's nothing better than a PIXAR movie played in full 1080p at 30 FPS with no compression for 90 minutes. It's better than the movies. In fact, I think that it's a little too good. Why? How can something be TOO good? Let me explain...

First of all, when I unpacked my HDTV from the box and hooked it up, it looked great. It was crisp, bright and very vivid color-wise. But after just a few minutes of watching TV and a couple of movies, I found that it took effort to watch a movie. I couldn't understand, but I figured it out.

All of the attention to detail, all of the technology improvements that went into making my TV experience the very best that it could be makes viewing normal television TOO good. It's too crisp. I'm looking for detail, and finding it, then analyzing how much detail there is, and then losing the big-picture and missing some of the movie or tv show.

http://www.calacanis.com/2008/03/07/how-to-save-money-running-a-startup-17-really-good-tips/

A link to Jason Calacanis' 17 tips to running a successful startup. Personally, I agree with most if not all of them. Great way to save money and get things rolling super-fast and super-efficiently. For those of you who don't know, Jason Calacanis is a pretty good internet visionary - responsible for Mahalo.com and thisnext.com (social shopping - like pronto.com, but not really as good)