Daniel Brusilovsky

Drop.io releases Twitter Support

Daniel Brusilovsky — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:42:37 +0000

Drop.io, Inc., the simple private sharing solution, today Drop.io started testing a new set of features to enhance Drop.io’s file sharing experience, making it faster and easier for users to privately share and store pictures, videos, audio, documents, and other digital content with family, friends, colleagues and work groups. In early June 2008, Drop.io introduced support with Scribd, the leading platform for online document publishing, announced today a partnership to offer rich document conversion and viewing within private drop.io ‘drops’.

Headlining the package of new Drop.io features is the integration of Twitter’s social
networking and micro-blogging platform to enable ‘real-time’ sharing of files uploaded to a drop through a user’s personalized Twitter stream.

I got the opportunity to speak with CEO, Sam Lessin, regarding the Twitter support. “We are excited to be testing our Twitter output (or, as we call it tweet.io)… Drop.io, as a simple private information switch already had all of the infrastructure in place to enable Twitter with all sorts of media inputs, from video and pictures to documents, audio, voicemail, etc… the integration is certainly really cool – and we are really excited to see how people will use it – but as a company really just look at it as another ‘output’ just like email alerts or RSS feeds”

The Twitter support with Drop.io is up and running. For more information, please head over to Drop.io’s web site.

Upcoming Conferences/Events for August 2008

Daniel Brusilovsky — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:21:09 +0000

With July coming to end soon, I want to take another moment to go over the upcoming conferences and events I am either attending or planning to attend in August.

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iPhone Dev Camp 2 — August 1-3: San Francisco, CA

Next Generation Data Center 2008 — August 4-7: San Francisco, CA

Linux World Conference & Expo — August 4-7: San Francisco, CA

The Start Conference — August 7: San Francisco, CA

User Experience Week 2008 — August 12-15: San Francisco, CA

Lunch 2.0 @ MySpace San Francisco — August 14: San Francisco, CA

New Media Expo — August 14-16: Las Vegas, Nevada

WordCamp San Francisco, 2008 — August 16: San Francisco, CA

An Event Apart San Francisco 2008 — August 18-19: San Francisco, CA

Search Engine Strategies San Jose Conference & Expo — August 18-22: San Francisco, CA

Unboxing: Flip Mino

Daniel Brusilovsky — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:54:17 +0000

On July 17, I received my new Flip Mino to review from Pure Digital Technologies. Here is the unboxing video:

Flip Mino from Daniel Brusilovsky on Vimeo

TwitterFone

Daniel Brusilovsky — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:38:43 +0000

Many of you have heard the buzz of the awesome mobile service called TwitterFone on TechCrunch, CNET News, VoIP Now, Silicon Valley Watcher, and many more.

TwitterFone is free service that lets you update your Twitter feed using your voice from any mobile or cell phone. You call it, speak your tweet, and hang up. A short while later, your tweet will be posted on Twitter. TwitterFone was founded by Pat Phelan, Florian Seroussi, and David Marcus.

Our friends at TwitterFone were very kind to give us 10 TwitterFone invite codes. The first ten (10) people that email the special TwitterFone email address, will receive an invite. If you don’t get an invite, I will try to get more. Stay tuned!

UPDATE: I am all out of invites. If you would like invites, please talk to Pat Phelan or Florian Seroussi over Twitter. Thanks!

iPhone 3G App Crash

Daniel Brusilovsky — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:33:28 +0000

I have been having some problems with my iPhone 3G. Nothing big, but it still affected me. Every time I would try to open a application, and the phone would go back to the home screen. This happened on every application I downloaded from the App Store. I sent out a Twitter message, and got a reply from Aaron (@sonictonic on Twitter). He forwarded me to this MacRumors iPhone Story.

Several people have described a problem with App Store applications after restoring from a backup. When your applications are launched on your new iPhone 3G, they will only show the start screen and then immediate quit.

The issue may lie in the Digital Rights Management embedded in each of the applications. In order to restore functionality, you simply need to delete the applications from the iPhone itself, and then resync the applications from iTunes. Once restored, the applications should launch properly.

To delete applications from your iPhone, you simply press and hold on one of the icons. All the icons will then start jiggling. Simply click the “X” in the top left hand of the application and it will ask you if you want to delete it.

Note that even if you delete an application entirely from both your iPhone and your iTunes install, you can still re-download it for free. This is true no matter what the price of the application was.

[via MacRumors iPhone Blog]

Thank you very much, Aaron and MacRumors. My iPhone is back to normal now.

iGot iPhone

Daniel Brusilovsky — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:17:37 +0000

On Saturday July 12, 2008, my parents and I went to the Apple Store Burlingame to purchase the new Apple iPhone 3G. We stood in line for about 3 hours, and then another hour in the store to activate the phones.

When all said and done, it was time to formally un-box my new iPhone 3G. I did get the White 16 GB iPhone 3G, instead of the Black 16 GB. I talked to Robert Scoble the night before, and he convinced me to get the White version. My mom did get a 8 GB Black iPhone 3G. I am still teaching her how to use everything, but she is getting the hand of it. Below are videos from walking into the store, and un-boxing our new iPhones!

http://qik.com//player.swf?streamname=b31b257fe1df44f5b61feb74ee31f8ca&vid=128604&playback=false&polling=false&user=vadimbr&userlock=true&islive=&currentUserName=anonymous

http://qik.com//player.swf?streamname=a9b03021bd4143f29eda6da286d9b795&vid=128621&playback=false&polling=false&user=vadimbr&userlock=true&islive=&currentUserName=anonymous

iPhone 3G Unboxing from Daniel Brusilovsky on Vimeo

My Talk at Social Networking Conference

Daniel Brusilovsky — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:50:57 +0000

On Thursday, July 10th, I was a keynote speaker at the Social Networking Conference in San Francisco. My dad fortunately has Qik on his Blackjack II, so he Qikked my keynote. Here are some clips below:

http://qik.com//player.swf?streamname=06249e4c0710461e8a812673d8f4588d&vid=126320&playback=false&polling=false&user=vadimbr&userlock=true&islive=&currentUserName=anonymous

http://qik.com//player.swf?streamname=8d40d28ffeb445cbab07a829956ead1e&vid=126331&playback=false&polling=false&user=vadimbr&userlock=true&islive=&currentUserName=anonymous

You can also find my actual presentation below, too:

http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=daniel-brusilovsky-snc-1215815711010127-9

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Upcoming Conferences/Events for July 2008

Daniel Brusilovsky — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:35:41 +0000

I would like to take a moment to talk about the upcoming conferences/events I will be attending.

Taping of Gary Vaynerchuk’s 500th Episode of the ThunderShow on WineLibrary TV — July 10: San Francisco, CA

Social Networking Conference — July 10-11: San Francisco, CA

2008 Ypulse Nation Mashup — July 14-15: San Francisco, CA

SocialMediaCamp SF — July 15: San Francisco, CA

BlogHer SF Conference — July 18-20: San Francisco

The AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford — July 22-24: Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Facebook f8 Conference — July 23: San Francisco

TechCrunch Event: Mobile Web Wars. Which Platform Will Win? — July 25: Menlo Park, CA

TechCrunch Event at August Capital — July 25: Menlo Park, CA

If you are going to attend any of theme events, let me know! Either leave a comment below, or contact me.

Social Networking Conference 2008

Daniel Brusilovsky — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:44:29 +0000

I am very happy to announce that this Thursday, I will be speaking at the Social Networking Conference in San Francisco, CA. I will be speaking at 2:30 PM PDT about Social Networks: The Teens Perspective. The likes of Steve Wozniak Co-Founder of Apple, Britt Selvitelle of Twitter, Brandon Duncan of LinkedIn, Rawn Shah of IBM, Javed Chaudry of Motorola, and many more.

I will be speaking behalf of my start-up, Teens in Tech. I will be streaming my keynote on Qik, and will try to stream the conference on Ustream.

http://www.ustream.tv/flash/live/209706

What iPhone Are You Getting?

Daniel Brusilovsky — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:58:34 +0000

The date is getting nearer. July 11th, 2008 is the day we are waiting for. I have waited over 1 year for this day, and it is almost here!

I even downloaded a countdown widget for my dashboard with a timer until the iPhone Launch. I think this is one of the coolest widgets someone has ever made!

I recently asked Twitter a question:

I wanted to share some responses to the “tweet,” and then talk about myself.

If you would like to see a full list, please click here.

Personally, I have not fully decided on which version of the iPhone 3G to get, but I would really love to get the 16 GB model in black. I feel that 8 GB is not enough for all the music, video, and all the applications I want to put on my future iPhone. I wish there was a 32 GB version, that was $300.00 USD, but I guess I will have to wait.

I recently spoke with Michael Johnston, Editor-in-Chief of iPhone Alley, and interviewed him via audio chat. Our interview is below:

Michael Johnston Interview from Daniel Brusilovsky on Vimeo

Once I figure out which model I will be getting, I will update this post. So, leave your comments below, and let us know what model of the iPhone 3G you will be getting!

UPDATE: I will be getting the 16 GB Black Apple iPhone on July 11th, 2008.