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Prior Art

Written by Jonathan Brown

February 25, 2008

Last Thursday I received an email from a friend, George Colombo, that pointed me to an article that Apple had filed a patent for "customized podcasts."  I was immediately surprised and dismayed, quite frankly, because my business partner, Matt Thompson, and I had actually developed the technology (we called it Modcast) and implemented it on our former podcast, The Cubicle Escape Pod, back in June 2005.  I wasn't miffed at Apple for filing the patent, though with very little research they could've figured out there was prior art, but I was upset because I started to have second thoughts and regrets about why we didn't push our concept harder.

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Tags: business, entrepreneurship, software, apple, modcast, podcast, tcep, inkoutloud, braindumptrivia, patent

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iPhone, 8 Months Later

Written by Jonathan Brown

February 17, 2008

It's not quite been eight months since iPhone entered my life, but it's close enough and I've been thinking about this blog post for a couple of weeks.  After only having the phone for a day, I made a few predictions that I felt would be fun to revisit to see if I should quit my job and become a palm reader.  So let's dive into it...

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Tags: apple, iphone, itunes, google-maps, prediction, rumor, flash

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Life with iPhone

Written by Jonathan Brown

July 10, 2007

It's been a little over one week with iPhone as my fulltime phone. First of all, when people ask, "What's so revolutionary about the iPhone?" or "What's the difference between iPhone and my _________ phone?" my answer has been, "Technically? Nothing. In fact it's missing many features of your phone. But the iPhone is all about the experience. It's like driving a Mercedes versus driving a Hyundai. They both essentially do the same thing, but packaged and presented completely different."

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Tags: apple, iphone, cell-phones, ipod, youtube, google-maps

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Apple Crams Widgets Down Our Throats Because of the iPhone

Written by Jonathan Brown

July 02, 2007

I've never been a huge fan of the widget. The rest of the world is. From desktop widgets to web widgets, people just love to play around with tiny little programs. It reminds me of people that collect miniature stuff. It doesn't matter what it is, if it's small, it's cute and people love it.

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Tags: apple, iphone, cell-phones, osx, widgets, dashcode

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iPhone, Google Maps and YouTube

Written by Jonathan Brown

July 01, 2007

Day two with the iPhone...

I went to a movie this evening to get out of my cave. I saw the new Die Hard flick. It was entertaining I suppose, but that's not the point of this post. While out and about I checked out a few more features of the iPhone.

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Tags: apple, iphone, cell-phones, at&t, edge, youtube, google-maps

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MeI’m Jonathan Brown. I write software during the day, I bootstrap businesses at night and I’m a father on weekends. It’s not how I designed it, but that’s how it worked out.

Oddly enough, I hate reading and love writing. I can’t find time to do either. I only read non-fiction—typically business books and magazines.

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