We held our second MobileMonday Miami event last week!

Thanks to those who participated and thanks to Myk Willis, CEO and Founder of Myxer, who gave an awesome presentation of this fast-growing  mobile startup. Mobile Monday Miami co-organizer and co-founder Jeffrey Sass (pictured) graciously hosted the event at Myxer’s offices in Deerfield Beach.

MobileMonday is a global community fostering cooperation and business development through networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends in the mobile industry. We’re excited to create a mobile community in Miami and look forward to its continued growth. If you’re into mobile, you’re invited to attend and participate in our free events.

The next one will be on June 9th, 2008 at Nokia’s offices by the Miami Airport. If you’re interested in attending, please RSVP on the Facebook event page, or just get in touch with me.

I’m giving back my Mac today.

The contract unequivocally requires property to be returned and so it is that I’m giving the Mac back at some point today. Mind you, about six months ago I’d never used a Mac before and the almost prohibitive price had always kept me at bay. I was the proverbial die-hard PC guy. So when I was offered the Mac — after I’d burned through one and a half of my own personal PCs at work — I gladly accepted it out of sheer curiosity.

In the six months since I’ve had this Mac, I’ve turned on my PC exactly two times; and both times, it was to try out PC-only software. Suffice it to say the MacBook Pro is sublime. What’s not to like? Once you get past the stuff that works differently, you won’t imagine how you ever worked on anything else. I think this applies to more than the creative professions: the Mac has not really improved my photography workflow. Rather, I feel like my productivity’s been boosted across the board. Maybe it’s the more logical OS and UI (and I prefer Tiger to Leopard). Maybe it’s because it crashes much less frequently. Maybe it’s because you can have close to a gazillion tabs open of Firefox and a bunch of other stuff running at the same time and everything still works. Maybe it’s the 3 hour battery life. And maybe it’s also “Spaces”. The combination of these things and more made it a pleasure to open up the Mac in the morning.

As a quick sidenote, I’ve often heard it said that Mac would convert most PC users if they gave 30-day trials.

Besides the obvious reluctance of going back to a Vista machine (ie, “Once you go Mac, you can’t go back”, etc.), I’m now also faced with the time-consuming hassle involved in setting up a workflow that had been perfected on the Mac. Some of it relates to the time it takes to find and install the right extensions for Firefox. Part of it has to do with giving up software that exists only for Mac, like the excellent Skitch. And the other part has to do with software that I had bought and installed, like OmniFocus, and will be unable to use until I get another Mac.

So when will I get another Mac? As soon as I can … and utimately, a brand new Mac trumps a depreciated one.

“… you’ve left me with nothing but I have worked with less.” -Ani Difranco.

Update: My PC laptop won’t start for some reason, I’ll have to get that fixed now and maybe reinstall Vista. I’ll lose a bunch of nice software I had installed, though.

Update 2: I got a new MacBook, which is performing better than the MacBook Pro I was using. Maybe it’s the clean install. I had considered getting a 20″ iMac — they’re amazing — but I really do need something mobile. The MacBook is even more convenient to carry around than the MacBook Pro.

Note: It’s worth clarifying that I’m not associated with Apple or any distributor. Also, I realize in the relative scheme of things, there are many worse things …

• 11:27 Twitterpoll: do u find it anoying when someone reposts their tweets to their blog? @davidberkowitz doesn’t like it tinyurl.com/6ahxb4 #
• 11:35 @nateritter @hmason @jrwoodward @charris1980 @alexdesigns Thanks. However, blog is a good CMS for journaling tweets by dayand Twitter isn’t #
• 11:37 I suppose compromise would be to start another blog just to send daily summary tweets to, to keep daily / weekly / monthly archive of doings #
• 11:41 @alexdesigns FriendFeed + Socialthing won’t store ur stuff forever.How do u search by date? A blog is safer. And a blog may be a lifestream! #
• 11:43 @jtnt @mailourmilitary Thanks … so far the response has been overwhelmingly against reposting daily summary of tweets to the blog #
• 11:52 @mailourmilitary Loudtwitter ships a daily summary of tweets to your blog. Tweeterboard will give you links posted by users. #
• 11:55 @swhitley For instance, you can favorite your own important tweets and then grab the RSS feed for it … #
• 12:02 @mailourmilitary Yeah, tweeterboard only gives you the last 30 you’ve posted. You’ve got to grab the RSS for it. #
• 12:13 @swhitley Also, while on the favorites page, the RSS feed is an auto-discovery that’s twitter.com/favorites/[[some number]].atom #
• 12:15 @devinreams Point well taken. I’m starting a new blog — for my own benefit — to capture a daily / weekly / monthly archive of my tweets #
• 12:16 If Twitter scratches Ruby for PHP, let’s hope they’ll fix some of the annoying stuff along the way and give us new features as well #
• 12:18 My wishlist for Twitter: better contact management; grouping, sorting and tagging features; private and public tweets; archival process #
• 12:22 @newmediajim Dunno … I saw it on TechCrunch tinyurl.com/6g93om but Twitter’s denying it twitter.com/ev/statuses/801530348 #
• 12:30 @glowbird By private, I mean I’d like to send private tweets to a *group* – not to an individual. I’d like to do so w/o using GroupTweet #
• 12:33 @_nateritter For posterity. When older, sitting by fireside, I’d like to see what I was up to on a particular day. Twitter is good for that. #
• 12:40 @couch Indeed, the combination of Twitter, Flickr and blog makes for an interesting historical archive … a new autobiography of sorts … #
• 12:43 @nateritter Wow … Have you checked with @extraface though? He might have setup a non-hasthag retweet of your tweets on @__nateritter #
• 12:48 @couch @aerodi Most dramatically, airplane crash affected lots of Brazilians on Orkut. Suddenly accounts became historical archives-Very sad #
• 13:04 @davidberkowitz Thanks for bringing it up! And everyone agrees with you tinyurl.com/699879 and tinyurl.com/6rdd8d #
• 13:14 @reboot10 I’m glad there’s a 10th edition, I look forward to it. It’ll be my fourth time there: always been great. Will it be free? Lol #
• 18:56 TGIF. What a day … I sure am ready for the weekend to start. Hope you’ll have a good one. #
• 22:08 Think about it: a perfected Twitter-like service would display your threaded conversations, wouldn’t it? Well, dream on. #
• 22:16 @silkcharm Mobile IRC! Why not? Hope you’re well, must be a great experience there #

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• 09:30 @ikepigott More than just lazy, it’s also sleazy, slanted and sensationalist journalism. Whatever sells, right? tinyurl.com/6xjyvn #
• 09:34 Coldplay’s song is not entirely free, they’re collecting your email. I wonder what they’ll do with it. www.coldplay.com/song.html #
• 09:45 Retweeting @jamesbuck Free mohammed, send an eCard to the consul attiyashakran@hotmail.com tinyurl.com/6m4dcn #
• 12:36 Wine wholesaler fell thru! Need new sponsor for RefreshMiami 2yr partytomorrow: ~$150 for wine, 50people attending tinyurl.com/6ocf6h #
• 13:00 @lsal77 Thanks for the Flipshake sponsorship of RefreshMiami! w00t! flipshake.com/ #
• 13:27 @quiverandquill @gregoire mapovino.com/ @montgomery @onajide Thanks for your offers and tips, it’s very much appreciated. #
• 13:30 @quiverandquill Kudos for “Rubber Chicken Social Club” in Boston! tinyurl.com/5t7kpq Informal meetups are generally the best kind. #
• 13:50 Without a moment’s hesitation and nary a doubt, he swiftly declared RSS bankruptcy and breathed a sigh of relief. #
• 13:56 @rrodgers On the contrary, it means I clicked the “Mark all as read” button. A refreshingly blank slate (screen, rather) stared back. #
• 14:01 @rrodgers Blog posts unread may rest in peace. They’re gone for good … unless someone links to them from Twitter, that is #
• 15:35 I love Twistori twistori.com/ #
• 16:35 @jpostman Visually stunning style, congrats. But I don’t agree w/ communist/socialist theme to describe social media is.gd/aaI #
• 17:05 Pre-ordered @missrogue ’s “Whuffie Factor” tinyurl.com/6bt2n9 & ordered @cshirky ’s “Here Comes Everybody” tinyurl.com/5w3r49 #
• 17:26 @jpostman It certainly makes a bold statement and will get some attention Good luck with your new consultancy, you’ll do well. #
• 17:29 @thorpus @yourdon I look forward to reading Clay’s book. I’m halfway through Groundswell – the Technographics chapter is very good #
• 17:33 Mobile Monday Miami at Myxer’s office on May 12th. The following one’s at Nokia’s on June 9th. Thanks @sass and @michaeltangeman . Rock on. #
• 17:36 @PelleB Agreed. I understand it’s meant tongue-in-cheek: twitter.com/jpostman/statuses/799845488 Take it up with @jpostman #
• 21:27 It’s really too bad you can’t customize the style of Google Reader shared items page, they all look the same tinyurl.com/4gov23 #
• 21:36 @kingsley2 I’ve got Tumblr, just added you tapio.tumblr.com/ #
• 23:36 @ashleyb33 Good point! You can comment shared items on Bloglines, but not on Google Reader. Seems like an obvious feature to have, right? #

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• 08:34 May 10 is Pangea Day – Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, Rio will be linked to produce powerful films: tinyurl.com/6bhp9c #
• 09:28 @shashib thanks for this picture of me, I’ll start using it as my new avatar flickr.com/photos/adc/2448343265/ #
• 09:33 Finally updated my ClaimID page, looking more like it should now: claimid.com/alexdc #
• 13:07 Listening to “Social networking and social marketing in the digital age” on NPR live.friendsofwlrn.org/ #
• 13:38 So the next Mobile Monday Miami is May 12th, hosted by @sass / Myxer. Please tell your non-Twitter mobile friends tinyurl.com/4zx7or #
• 14:10 It’s misguided put the word communityin quotes and in the same sentence w/ “consumer marketing arena” tinyurl.com/3qn4xo #borg #
• 14:12 <rant>Your “consumers” in their “communities” certainly don’t think of such spaces as”consumer marketing arenas”; neither should y … #
• 14:21 @bendtheweb I’d follow you here after hearing you on NPR but you’re not engaging in conversations, just sending out links to your own site. #
• 15:02 @lindasherman I haven’t given PD much thought … maybe I can do something for it with @1h2o www.flickr.com/groups/onewater/ #
• 15:34 This is verbatim: “Now, for the most *IMPORTANT* part of the community: buying that outfit” tinyurl.com/6hnlzr #
• 15:37 @cgranier @montgomery In same vein as revolutiontheme.com/ there’s also premiumnewstheme.com/ and quommunication.com/ #
• 15:44 @robertmurray LOL! You’re right – don’t ask @JamesatBabySpot I wonder whether Wet Seal did some market research before building this #
• 16:29 @aureliusmaximus @JamesatBabySpot Good post, we’re addressing a part of that with StartPR.com tinyurl.com/3f5rka #
• 16:30 @FreeRangeMom Precisely why I don’t spend much time at the mall #
• 16:54 @briansolis Congrats for this tinyurl.com/6xftuw #
• 18:21 Puzzled to see that over half of the ASUS eee PC’s home page is links to other sites? What’s the point? eeepc.asus.com/us/index.htm #
• 19:17 Looking forward to Refresh Miami two-year anniversary on Wednesday tinyurl.com/6ocf6h #
• 20:08 “I suspect that there’s a whole lot of clicking without a lot of thinking,” -Mary Madden, Pew Research Re: FB apps tinyurl.com/3lktqd #
• 21:43 Counting down about nine and a half hours to download “Violet Hill,” the new free Coldplay song www.coldplay.com/song.html #
• 21:45 The Coldplay site is all about a free song, show and site … and a nice bit of artwork, “Viva la Vida!” www.coldplay.com/index.html #
• 22:04 @loiclemeur Glad you and yours are fine #

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• 10:51 “What’s the rush?”, on Flickr tinyurl.com/5nvouv (much better viewed here on black: tinyurl.com/62p3cx ) #
• 13:10 @andrewhyde That “thrifty fifty” for the Canon’s a good lens! Also nice for low light and portrait photos, and more affordable than the f1.4 #
• 13:33 Dugg “28 best Deviant Art Wordpress designers” by @wpzoomcom … nice collection of WP themes there #
• 13:33 oops forgot WP themes link tinyurl.com/5eakbk #
• 15:27 Mobile Monday Miami set for May 12th at Myxer, thanks to @sass Please RSVP tinyurl.com/4zx7or Thanks also @michaeltangeman for helpng #

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• 08:03 @greghaase Thanks for sharing this list of Mail/Addressbook/ical plugins: www.hawkwings.net/plugins.htm #
• 09:20 “Mowser is at the end of its life in its current form.” – @RussB tinyurl.com/573kp4 #
• 09:33 “GroupTweet is confusing and if you make a mistake, your direct messages are made public.” – @techcrunch tinyurl.com/5vu8eo #
• 15:14 @DougH Drinking tea is the only reasonable option at this point! Enjoy your vacay #
• 15:37 @ken_neth Welcome to Twitter. Check out the Miami Twitter Pack: tinyurl.com/2f8s7n #
• 16:38 Next Mobile Monday Miami on May 12th at Myxer, thanks to @sass for hosting. Know someone in mobile? Plz tell them! mobilemonday.net/ #
• 18:35 RefreshMiami two year anniversary is next Wednesday, April 30th … everyone’s welcome! tinyurl.com/6ocf6h #
• 19:35 Miami’s on Forbe’s sinful city map for Avarice, Sloth and Pride (not surprising) but not for Lust! Huh??? tinyurl.com/3286by #
• 19:40 We’re getting close with StartPR! Very soon we’ll invite those who signed up at startpr.com #
• 19:54 Uploaded first set of pictures to @1h2o on Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/1h2o/ #
• 20:02 If you’re on Flickr, please consider adding 1h2o (thank you) www.flickr.com/people/1h2o/ and on twitter @1h2o #
• 20:29 @shamir Thanks for your help with Flickr, it’s much appreciated! You rock! flickr.com/people/shr/ #

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• 08:29 Best one I’ve run across tinyurl.com/2axqts #
• 11:58 CNN’s Polly LaBarre clearly explains coworking tinyurl.com/3byk2q (video) #
• 12:37 @rafe Will FriendFeed add a way to sort friends into groups? Also, how about improved mobile access? Thanks! #
• 12:59 You realize the Hillary-Obama internecine feud’s more abt Media than abt them, right? Controversy sells. TV speaks to emotion, not intellect #
• 15:03 According to Richard Florida’s map, there are more single women than men on the East Coast … via @stoweboyd #
• 15:05 “Percentage of chart which resembles Pac-man” via @ross … LOL #
• 15:07 oops, forgot to link to Pac-man chart tinyurl.com/2aqmx3 #
• 15:28 And here’s my previously omitted link to Richard Florida’s Singles Map flickr.com/photos/stoweboyd/2379444257/ via @stoweboyd #
• 16:14 WHAT??? Did @hillaryclinton just tweet this? “I have a proposal – I challenge Senator Obama to a bowl-off, winner takes all.” #
• 16:28 @shelisrael clarifies Loren’s ( @1938media ) angle twitter.com/shelisrael/statuses/781023334 #
• 16:44 Socialthing works if I remove Twitter. So Twitter on Twhirl and Flickr and FB on SocialThing = following ~ 2,700 contacts across 3 services #
• 16:48 “Legacy is greater than currency” says @garyvee … check it out tinyurl.com/33txq2 (video) #
• 16:49 @davefleet I’m following 1,400 people on Twitter and if floods my Socialthing. Twitter is much better left to Twhirl or FriendFeed. #
• 16:54 @indiekid thanks, there’s great value in seeing Flickr, FB and other stuff from my friends w/o these getting lost in a flood of tweets #
• 17:16 @warhawke socialthing and friendfeed are similar services, w/ differences in lifestream aggregation, friending and privacy settings #
• 17:18 @metophile Overall @barackobama has used the internet much more effectively than @hillaryclinton Do you think it’s just demopgraphics?. #
• 17:44 @warhawke I’m trying both and I’ll probably stick with both. The first one that allows you to group friends, wins. @socialthing @friendfeed #
• 18:23 South Florida tweeters: Miami Tweetup scheduled at 4 p.m. Sat. 4/19 at Monty’s SoBe (300 Alton Rd.) … with special out of towners too! #
• 18:29 GNE! “Just like in real life, 3 differently-hued bars represent the integer values of your energy, mood and karma” tinyurl.com/2pnfak #
• 19:13 Learning the vocabulary & vested interests around the issue of water reveals opptys for connections and community building, to affect change #
• 19:22 @joi congrats on your new role at CC! tinyurl.com/32wju9 #
• 20:31 Kim Grinfeder from the U.of Miami has done an outstanding job with The Water Project’s site www.1h2o.org/ and this may evolve further #
• 21:07 AFAIK @shelisrael initiated the discussion on corporate adoption of social media. If you’re into corporate community building, follow Shel #

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• 07:30 @codeshaman Have a great birthday! Enjoy this day, courtesy of @stweetteam #
• 08:12 “Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever,” on Flickr flickr.com/photos/adc/2312521192/ #
• 14:28 Thinking about how regular tweeting blurs the line between your private space and public persona #
• 15:45 I can haz FireEagle invite plz? Thanks in advance alex@decarvalho.net #
• 15:51 Got a FireEagle invite, thank you so much #
• 16:48 Some of the best tweets are never sent; they’re ’saved to drafts’ in mobile phones … #
• 17:11 @SXNetworks Si, estaba en FOWA y organize el BarCampMiami. Lastima que no nos conocimos. Vas a SXSW? #
• 17:19 Check out sxswvideos.com/ by @cdevroe at Viddler, for SXSW vids #
• 18:51 Thinking that using background color Hex #8A8A8A may bring good luck, for some reason … it’s worth a try, anyway #
• 19:16 Mercury is in retrograde for Aquarius. It’s a nutty time, for sure! www.astrologycom.com/mercret.html #

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• 23:11 Hardly ever do you see such a close team, but great value ensues from their inherent trust in each other and their complementary skills. #
• 23:39 @thinkjose thank you, was great to meet you! twitter.com/thinkjose/statuses/765586805 #
• 23:44 @sass Why on Earth would anyone quit Twitter, even after an intensive course at “Invitations”, the socal networking rehab center? Well? Huh? #
• 23:46 @gapingvoid and Jason, you rock, thank you #
• 23:51 Internet fame’s relative to your audience. My social media is not yours. Information is social. And there is no A-list. Get a life, will ya? #
• 23:55 What to say of the opportunity to meet and reconnect with wondrous people at FOWA and BarCampMiami? Simply, thank you. Kindly. #
• 23:59 @jasonlbaptiste Love can be a relative term. Commitment, trust, loyalty, persistence, fraternity (sorority) are essential characteristics. #
• 00:10 Crazy day, kuh-razy evening, mellow cool jazz night. Shaking it all up. #
• 00:29 Micky Dee’s 24Hr drive-through. It’s 12:27am. How to resist? Easy. Just drive by. Not through. #
• 00:45 @vicequeenmaria W/ due respect, it’s not about you. And me neither. But it’s all good. #
• 00:54 Conversations tonigjht have proposed >risk for perhaps >return. Scary. Under consideration. And not unnoticed. The die is cast, ye … #
• 10:05 Looking forward to the first Mobile Monday in Miami tonight, 7pm at Gordon Biersch, Brickell Ave #
• 10:08 @jchutchins Congrats on your new job at Myxer #
• 10:10 @cschick Thank you! Miami’s got a lot going for it and we like living here … Nokia’s here, too Hoping you’ll visit soon. #
• 11:20 With about 250 to 300 people that participated in BarCampMiami, I regret not having organized a food drive for the homeless. Next time. #
• 11:42 @gapingvoid Was great hanging out with Jason and you last night … and what a view! www.gapingvoid.com/miamibeach234mmm.jpg #
• 12:01 @scobleizer congrats for www.fastcompany.tv/ ! @shelisrael I’m looking forward to GNTV! #
• 17:09 Today’s Mobile Monday, the first in Miami, starts at 7:30pm at Gordon Biersch, 1201 Brickell Ave. tinyurl.com/35gm5o #
• 17:35 @mojosd thanks! @danrubin you’re right, we’ve got to figure that out #
• 21:47 @sass almost there #
• 21:48 At Miami’s first Mobile Monday meetup #
• 21:50 @sass streamed Mobile Monday Miami qik.com/video/30558 #
• 21:50 @sass is talking about Myxer, they’ve got 6.1 Million users, adding 30,000 every day! #
• 21:51 @davidparmet thanks for the post about BarCampMiami tinyurl.com/38v7j3 #

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