I have a few invites for each of these websites so if you want one, follow up with a comment saying which of the services you’d like an invite for and I’ll send one your way if I have any left. I’ll be honest and say I’m finding SocialThing pretty cool and am more impressed with it than with Jaiku - but maybe I just need to spend more time playing with Jaiku to really grok it.
I heard about the Euruko 2008 conference a few weeks ago on the RubyIreland mailing list (thanks Chris!) and looked into going over to my first Ruby Conference. Well it’s only a couple of weeks away now and I’m all booked up, flights, accomodation and the ridiculously cheap conference ticket are all sorted. Yay! I’ll be arriving Friday evening and making my way down for the pre-Conf meetup and beers.
Matz, Koichi Sasada of YARV fame, Dr. Nic, David A. Black (author of Ruby for Rails), Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo (JRuby guys) are all confirmed presenters. That’s a pretty impressive line-up in anyone’s book. I’m really looking forward to this conference.
The iPhone is a great piece of equipment - it’s not as feature rich as my N95 - but it looks great and has a really sweet user interface. Add in the the iTunes functionality and you’ve got yourself the real iPod killer. Unless of course you happen to be in Ireland where O2 have the exclusive rights to distrubute the iPhone and are attempting to leverage that scarcity (i.e. screw the consumer). Pat Phelan of Cubic Telecom has done the math and has been appearing on various TV and radio shows to inform the public and try and embarrass O2 into a U-turn. Check out his sums before you consider getting an iPhone through O2 Ireland.