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Andy Payne has a post about the disappointing rate of innovation these days in GPS navigation systems. I agree with Andy -- there is a lot of room left for innovation in these devices. Check out Andy's GPS feature wish...

Digital Photography School has some beautiful examples of long exposure photography....

With their announcement of the Pre at CES last week, Palm hopes to return in a serious way the the smartphone marketplace. As an iPhone fan, I'm happy to see some competition, which can only help drive innovation for all...

Excellent startup advice from Paul Graham: ...the surest route to success is to be the cockroaches of the corporate world. The immediate cause of death in a startup is always running out of money. The cheaper your company is to...

Nice update to the MLB At Bat iPhone application. It now includes Gameday information (pitch-by-pitch display, field view, and full box scores), as opposed to the sparse updates in the previous version. I'll be interested to see whether this means...

Last night's Mobile Monday Boston iPhone SDK party was a big success -- I'd guess there were at least 150 people packed into the Apple store, and many of those folks made it over to the party afterwards at Dante....

Order an iPhone from the Apple Online Store, and you may find that it's being shipped to you directly from the manufacturing plant in China. My iPhone was picked up by FedEx in Shenzhen, China, followed by a short hop...

Another month, another Amazon web service...this time it's Amazon SimpleDB, which Amazon announced yesterday, and will begin limited beta testing in the next few weeks. This is yet another reason that startups don't need a datacenter, hardware, Oracle licenses, a...

Thomas Hawk shares some great guidelines for photowalking. Over on my photoblog, I'm posting some photos from a photowalk Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, starting today. (Click on the photo on this page to see the entire gallery before I post...

The Amazon Web Services Startup Challenge -- first prize $50,000 cash + $50,000 AWS credit. The deadline (October 28) is coming fast, so it's time to start generating great ideas now! (Now if I could just use AWS to generate...

Nine months since I posted here! It's been hard to find time for this blog, but if you're interested, you'll find that I update my photoblog much more frequently....

The New York Times has an article today on geotagging. Unfortunately, support for geotagging is different across the various photo sharing services. Where you really want to do this is at the camera, when the photo is taken. Today, you...

Now that I've had some time to play with the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) beta, a few comments. First of all, it's incredibly easy to fire up an instance, log in, and play around with your virtual Linux box....

Amazon announces "Elastic Compute Cloud" (EC2) today. EC2 provides virtual compute capacity in the cloud. It works in conjunction with Amazon S3. From the EC2 FAQ: Q: What operating system environments are supported? Amazon EC2 currently supports Linux-based systems environments....

Very sad news today in the Seattle PI -- Jeff Harbers died when his single-engine plane crashed on takeoff in Big Timber, Montana this weekend. Jeff was an incredibly bright, humorous, and effective manager of the Office group at Microsoft...