Dec
9
2008
So I attended my first Tweetup last night and had a great time. (A Tweetup is an informal meeting organized over the super popular microblogging service Twitter.) Aside from the great company of Jester Creative’s Sue Murphy and mWare’s Mike Geiger, we had a blast having a heavy iShare session. No, iShare is not the latest great thing, it’s a name I just made up for getting together with folks who all have iPhones and sharing iPhone application recommendations. (And in case anyone was wondering, yes, Mike is related to the guy who created the Geiger counter. He said it’s his grandad if a I remember correctly. Mike?)
And the fun was on many levels…
We didn’t have to wait to go home to try out apps, no, we downloaded them right there at the bar table and were playing with them in a minute. Mike showed off a cool little app called Rotary Dialer that gives your iPhone a rotary dialer to make calls.
Sue showed me Flixster that gives you local movie listings found using the iPhone’s GPS feature. Now, Flixster has obviouis practical value whereas Rotary Dialer has none – it’s just tons of fun. And this is the key point: smart phones that work as well as the iPhone (and I don’t know if any others do. Please share if you do) help people get things done, solve their problems and have tons of fun alone and with others.
The opportunity for companies and organizations is to join the space and find ways to provide some of that value linked to your message or brand.
And have fun!
December 9th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
It was way fun hanging out with you guys, sharing some iPhone love.
You’re so right – aside from the fun and games of the iPhone (what, a rotary dialer isn’t useful?
there are so many useful tools on this device that I’m sure I’ve only scratched the surface of what’s possible.
Look forward to seeing you at the next tweetup, or iMeet, or whatever we call it!
December 9th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Oh, and I believe Hans Geiger was Mike’s great-grandfather
I wonder if Mike gets free Geiger counters…
December 9th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
from my iPhone on a traffic-snarled bus I say: word!
December 9th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
No! It’s terrible – I don’t have any Geiger-Counters at all. Nobody in the immediate family does! And yes, it was my great-grandfather who invented it.
BTW: If you want to take an sshot of your iPhone, hold the top button and tap the home button. (Don’t hold both for too long tho, otherwise you’ll brainwash it)