Verizon unveils a high-end phone from LG called Voyager to compete with the iPhone. It will have faster wireless web access, larger touch screen, and full web browser.
“We think it’ll be the best phone … this year. It will kill the iPhone,” Verizon Wireless Chief Marketing Officer Mike Lanman
Naz Hamid’s site, Weightshift, has a new design. Looks cool, the grid layout used for the blog kind of looks like Khoi Vinh’s Subtraction. Like most dark sites, if you find yourself straining to read the text on Weighshift, try zap colors.
Boing Boing has launched an online TV site, and for a preview of what’s to come, check out their first episode: Visions of the future. Nothing earth shattering or Revision3 worthy, but it’s a start; so, let’s wait and see how it turns out.
Ed Foster at InfoWorld notices that the only way one can sign out of Amazon is by admitting that you are not the person you claim to be!
Jeff Croft suggests that employers need to look at valuable qualities of a designer rather than what tools they have used, when it comes to hiring good designers.
Freelance Switch is 6 months old and to celebrate they have put up a new design. In six months, this site has reached 200th rank on Technorati with over 14,000 subscribers.
DonorsChoose.org is running a bloggers challenge to help fund classroom projects in high-need public schools, with various awards from Google, Yahoo!, Six Apart, and Federated Media, for the bloggers who bring in the most. Isn’t it just sad when in the richest country in the world, where billions of dollars is spent on wars, on acquisitions, and has some of the richest people in the world, it has to resort to bloggers to fund public school projects!
Invite only Joost is now open to the public. Joost is a P2P internet TV application from the creators of Skype and Kazaa, and has over 15,000 shows to quench your TV addiction.
Apple releases the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines. Why is information for developers always made to look so boring?! Come on Apple put some of that user interface guidelines to use when creating developer docs.
Ars Technica is reporting that a new Terms of Service from AT&T could potentially allow them to disconnect services for criticizing AT&T on blogs and other online avenues. Simple solution—all bloggers who are AT&T subscribers switch to another service provider!
The results are out for the Rail Rumble competition where 92 web apps were created in 48 hours. The winner is TastyPlanner, a simple recipe sharing site.
Help make a difference now by blogging, not that bloggers don’t do that already. Blog Action Day is a new site bringing together bloggers to collectively blog about a single issue on the same day. Good idea, but will it actually make a difference?
Russell Beattie recommends that people get over being offended by the use of “fuck” in blogs, as it is just a word.
Shaun Inman shares his thoughts on the first Layer Tennis match against Keven Cornell.
An article about an experimental restaurant in a dorm room by 21 year old Duke senior Bryan Zupon.
