Christopher Allen's Ephemera Blog

• 14:18 My "student recital" at the Berkeley Gathering Concert went well last night. A few flubs from my perspective, but nobody noticed. #
• 14:24 I'm in Seattle, WA today before a faculty retreat for Bainbridge Graduate Institute tomorrow. bgiedu.org offers a green & sustainable MBA. #

• 15:14 I will be performing tonight two duets with my Hang drum teacher bit.ly/6C9a0 -- one with a D minor Hang, the other with the new Halo #

• 17:39 Tonight I'm going to a Hang Gathering Concert with 7 hang drum performers at Yoga Mandala in Berkeley bit.ly/6C9a0 Tomorrow I perform #

• 00:16 Moderated a panel at an iPhone developer user group in Fremont tonight. I thought it went well even though one of the speakers was a no show #

• 00:16 My experience with iPhone 3GS video is mixed. I did get a fun impromptu "unicyle tango" video, but most others didn't focus in low light. #
• 00:32 Serious data loss bug in iPhone with iPhoto. If you upload to Youtube, and it fails to upload, and you sync to iPhoto, poof! Lose both. #

• 10:19 The AT&T store in El Cerrito has all models, no lines, and about a 15 minute wait inside. twitpic.com/7tbtv #
• 16:08 In the end got the discounted price on iPhone 3GS due to last minutes changes in AT&T policy. No line at AT&T store, activation was fast. #
• 16:11 Now that I've restored both iPhone 3GS (Yeah! It worked!), I'm doing secure erase of both M's and my old iPhones. Takes about an hour each! #

• 14:33 At scarycow.com round 9 where people are pitching little indie short films and evangelizing people to volunteer on their film teams. #
• 14:36 Of course some of the pitches @scarycow are quite spare and amateur, but some quite interesting. Genres include drama, horror, comedy, etc. #
• 14:39 @mariosundar Fellow @scarycow twitterer -- find me after pitches? #
• 17:04 I had a good time at the @scarycow short film pitch mtg. Reminds me of first night of @iPhoneDevCamp -- lots of passionate creative people. #

• 11:59 Registration for @iPhoneDevCamp is $50 & now open: iphonedevcamp.org -- it will be held July 31 - August 2nd at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale. #
• 12:05 Didn't set my alarm this morning, woke at 11:40. Don't think I'll drop in at #WWDC for last two sessions. DM if you want to meet today. #
• 21:19 Well, as I expected, I didn't get on in time to get ChristopherA on Facebook. I'm ChristopherA almost everywhere else. #FUFacebook #

• 09:45 @rsarver The only time I've ever had my car broken into was s of market at night. Lots of smash & grab. If they see anything in car->smash! #
• 10:03 If you see me at #WWDC ask me about player discovery, euro-syle board & card games on iPhone, or iPhone apps that can be marketed on RPGnet #
• 14:45 A lot of cool stuff about new compass in iPhone 3GS. It is very smart. #WWDC #
• 14:46 For instance, compass detects if you are experiencing mag interference, and then will ask you to wave iPhone in figure 8, and it will fix #
• 14:50 Cool, iPhone 3GS will put heading into photo exif. For instance, this can allow automatic photo stitching of panoramic photos. #WWDC #
• 16:22 RT @joehewitt iPhone cases R lk a bra on yr Porsche. Please dont hide the wonderful work of Apple's industrial designers w/ cheap plastic. #
• 16:24 I concur with @joehewitt - my iPhone 3G is almost a year old w/o case, and carried often in pocket w/keys, yet no scratches on glass. #
• 17:27 Looking for ride to an East Bay BART station (preferably North Berkeley BART, but MacArthur works) after #WWDC party tonight. #
• 18:49 Apple #WWDC takes over Yeuba Buena Park: GPS location: bit.ly/OxbIW mobypicture.com/?zcru1y #
• 20:32 iPhone In Action & Cake #WWDC twitpic.com/7664r (via @iphoneinaction) #
• 20:37 More Cake #WWDC twitpic.com/766rc #
• 20:38 The #WWDC audience watching Cake: twitpic.com/766un #
• 20:41 Cake #WWDC audio battle of the sexes: mobypicture.com/?p4zlk5 #
• 20:46 Cake #WWDC last song: mobypicture.com/?p9qst6 #
• 20:51 Cake #WWDC encore song: mobypicture.com/?8wdmys #
• 21:29 Who is going to #WWDC Friday? Schedule looks a little light for me. If you are interested in meeting, let me know soon or I might skip. #

• 10:06 I don't like when after some #WWDC sessions they don't take questions, instead take questions on side. I find the public Q&A very valuable. #
• 10:28 I've got a great idea for player discovery for when you want to play a game locally (like werewolf) but don't want to leave iPhone app open. #
• 10:31 This player discovery technique would use combination of iPhone notification srvc +peer-to-peer game kit +anonymous ephemeral location API #
• 10:35 If you are interested in talking more about the player discovery problem on the iPhone at #WWDC, say over lunch or dinner, let me know. #
• 11:19 Lots of cheers from crowd in audience during #WWDC In-App Purchase session on the suggestion that Apple allow purchases from free apps. #
• 11:37 Policy for In-App Purchases: No trading of any virtual item purchased in-app to any other person i.e. no intermediate currencies. #WWDC #
• 13:38 @awh_tokyo you can't sell an RPG item, say a axe, if that axe can be given to another user. If you did you'd be violating app store rules #
• 13:42 @zephoria I don't like to retweet unless it is really obscure user. Prefer to add value w/content, opinion, or judgement in any tweet I post #
• 13:44 @zephoria however, I do recognize my role as a weak link connection between social networks like iPhone, games, media, etc. so will RT some. #
• 13:49 @zephoria I don't like to mod RTs, but I will if no essential content change, like 'with ' to 'w/' or ' and ' to '&' and deleting white sp #
• 14:21 I agree w/ @anildash's predictions for Friday's Facebook URL launch #FUFacebook tr.im/fufacebook (via @t @stop) #
• 16:22 Smule's MoPhO (Mobile Phone Orchestra) performance during lunch bit.ly/3SsVY #WWDC (via @willipowell) #
• 16:29 I'm off to the Twitter HQ for the #WWDC Mac / iPhone Twitter API meetup: tr.im/o5T2 #
• 17:21 Lots of interesting talk regarding Twitter & if we can centralize iPhone's Push Notification Services at Twitter HQ. #
• 17:23 Great talk at Twitter HQ regarding exposing geoloc in API. In progress, but currently held up in legal. #
• 17:29 Interesting versioning issues with Twitter API. Could be future will be to point to specific URLs domains that spec specific version. #
• 17:32 It looks like if you have an app that gets data from API services, like Twitter Trends, you'll have to mark it in iPhone App Store as 17+ #
• 17:54 If you want your client to allow users to report Twitter spam, you can report them with a direct message to @spam with the @ name of spammer #
• 18:23 Just met @twittelator coder, just got latest upgrade to Twittelator Pro with Voice Notes support: mobypicture.com/?fs6kja #