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My New iPhone – Marketer’s Dream

Ryan Buchanan — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:20:52 +0000

I know I’m so so so late to this game – I have clung on to my Blackberry forever because I feared poor AT&T coverage. I feared that my fingers were too fat to successfully type on the touchscreen from trying it on my wife’s first generation iPhone. Not sure how many more fears I had, but I finally made the switch to the unbelievably intuitive and beautiful creation known as the iPhone. Other than the obvious advantages of an incredible mobile web experience, mature iPhone app ecosystem, more intuitive texting, more readable email, I wanted to focus on the mobile video feature that makes it so easy to shoot video and upload it to YouTube. So nice. Here is a video that I took on day 2 of owning my new iPhone:

Click here to view the embedded video.

If you have an iPhone, please share with us a haiku about why you like it so much. Here’s mine:

iPhone, radiating
beauty, video camera
in my pocket alas

Haiku Monday – Mobile Devices

Ryan Buchanan — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:39:22 +0000

Haiku Monday is back like a hurricaine, like a Super Bowl ad that had you laughing and crying in the same 30-second spot. I was in the backcountry skiing at Mt. Hood this past Saturday and my skiing buddy informed me that he just made the switch from his Blackberry (avid evangelist for 9+ years) to an iPhone a month ago. Here’s a very technical guy who travels domestically and internationally a whole lot and has a love affair with Blackberry – he survives on his mobile device. If he made the switch to an iPhone and several others in my office have made the switch, then what’s going to happen to RIM (Blackberry manufacturer). Well, they’ve got the most powerful man on Earth publicly admitting his addiction to his Blackberry and most lawmakers haven’t switched. The best thing to do to settle this debate is begin a haiku dialogue. So, let it begin:

I still love email
on my Blackberry, but the
web + apps on iPhone are crazy sexy

The above haiku did not follow the haiku rules, I apologize. Don’t use that as an example for your own haiku, but you must express yourself in the comments below.

Crackberry Addiction is real

Ryan Buchanan — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 05:00:43 +0000

I’m a bit of a newcomer to the world of Crackberries, but I know my addiction is beginning when my wife rightfully swore at me for being distracted for a split second while driving and reading 1 sentence of an email. That was very bad of me, but this video proves that there others out there like me. Very scary.

Our Blackberry Addiction

Ryan Buchanan — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:00:12 +0000

In light of the settlement last week that gave the Blackberry new life, I was sent this email that includes a hillarious clip of how we interact with this little device. Blackberry’s are one of the best things every for business communications and staying on top of the inbox, but they also make us move like we are a junkie on a binge.

These deives throw blinders on us as we interact with them and we forget about the world around us for a few minutes whe nwe are engaged in reading emails on them. Who would think that this little device would require a new article of business attire? Like a helmet.