ereader is fantastic. my only complaint is that digital books are so expensive. why? why should i pay the same price when there aren’t any printing or distribution costs…amazon figured this out with the kindle. but, i want one device to rule the world…i.,e my iphone. so, hopefully amazon and/or apple will do something…or, maybe even little ereader…:)

here’s a video of how to use v1 of ereader’s new app…

then, when i got home, i connected to my powerbook and hit “restore old iphone.” in less than 5 minutes i had everything back…all my contacts, favorites, stocks, weather, bookmarks, notes, alarms, world time settings, music, etc. etc. etc.

pretty impressive…

note: for some reason the widget is displaying on my blog. go to aol news to see it live, but here’s a screen grab:

not only was the quality good, but it didn’t kill the battery. my only complaint = only one day to watch the video once you start it.

now, if only the iphone had an ebook solution that worked in offline mode!

in any event, on the way home, hawaiian air had an even better vid solution…a dvd player loaded with a number of movies and tv shows, all for $15…

i’ve been meaning to post a list of things i’d like to see friendfeed do…well, fred beat me to it. i agree with him completely and had a number of his on my list…here are a few more that fred didn’t mention, most of which focus on data (think flickr…everyone wants stats!):

1) display all my items that have activity (not just what i’ve commented on) in reverse chron order and listed by most commented and liked

2) allow me to get a daily email update of the activity - even if i’ve logged in recently :)

3) items should be deduped and global stats for each item should be front and center…explore putting it in the UI next to each item (# times this item was shared, # comments, # likes, # clicks, etc.). if it’s too cluttered, at least make “stats” a tab…

4) let me see the most popular items (shares, comments, likes, clicks, movers and shakers (”interestingness”)) over different time periods across my items, my friends’ items, and all of ff…and, turn those into rss feeds :)

5) allow me to share/rebroadcast any item directly from within ff

6) search should be full-text - ff should index the landing pages of all shared links

7) please create a smaller logo :)

re fred’s list, i especially want the ability to display thumbnails of images from blog feeds ala flickr, explode blog posts, and post comments back to flickr ala twitter…

i’ve tried all sorts of things with feedburner and yahoo pipes to create a good feed of me, and i settled on using pipes to splice flickr into my wp source feed with feedburner on the front-end (this works better than the flickr splicer in feedburner as each photo can have flare). that seems to work for my readers (i.,e not too much content), but if you want my complete exhaust, use this feed as it’s a true feed of me…

if you’re interested in getting involved (i.,e applying), do it now…the apps are due in just two short weeks…

thanks for the link rick!

luckily, we have a few at goog…since these single-brew clover machines are 11k each, my guess is that search is profitable :)

here’s my pic of the machine in action…love the “coffee cake”