I have tried a variety of tools for reading my Google Reader feeds on my iPhone.

• Google’s mobile browser – works well, but requires a constant connection and little third party tool integration
• Feeds – likely the most disappointing app I have ever purchased
• Byline – pretty good overall experience. A little rough around the edges.
• Newsstand – relatively new. My first day with it was good, but it was downhill after that.

However, with the recent update of the NetNewsWire iPhone app, all the applications listed above are dead to me. NewNewsWire for the iPhone may be the best application I have used on my iPhone.

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A very interesting announcement by the folks at MySpace:

Today, we are open-sourcing Qizmt, an internally developed framework for distributed computation created by the Data Mining team here at MySpace. Qizmt can be used for many operations that require processing large amounts of data such as collaborative filtering for recommendations and analytics.

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I may have my Mac fanboy status revoked because of this post. It wasn’t until last week that I learned the “Think Different” commercial that aired in 1997 was actual the Apple Manifesto.

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I have been slumming it this week in Hawaii working with a Telligent Community customer.

This morning, a new (to me?) feature of Windows 7 caught my eye.

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Installing Vista 64bit on my original MacBook Pro took quite a bit of work and a bit of hacking.

Thankfully, on my new Unibody 13inch MacBook Pro’s it is drop dead simple.

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Sometimes, you just have to go with the numbers.

I was recently booking a flight from Philadelphia to Dallas. On the main booking screen USAirways is nice enough to show you the On-Time estimate for each stage of the flight.

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A really interesting post on the Zoho blog, “Companies Don't Get Killed by Competition, They Commit Suicide”

My two favorite quotes.

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It is hard to believe that today marks my five year anniversary at Telligent. Next to my wife, this is by far my longest relationship that I was not born into.

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This is probably more of a wish list than predictions of what will be announced at WWDC 2009. I really have zero insight into the Apple world, but I know what I want and have a few guesses.

Here goes.

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Just incase you been living under a technology rock for the last week or so, please go check out the Google Wave demo video before continuing reading this post.

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