Chart of smartphone users in 2009 by OS

timoreilly: Handicapping the smartphone OSes: iPhone Blows Past Windows Mobile for #2 spot

http://bit.ly/7CktSt (about 19 hours ago from Seesmic)

It's not just me...

http://budurl.com/h2hh Blackberry e-mail troubles.

Go Mobile

Go mobile: Use these strategies and increase your mobile literacy and your patrons’ satisfaction
By Lisa Carlucci Thomas, Digital Collections Librarian, Yale University Library, and Joe Murphy, Science Librarian, Coordinator of Instruction & Technology, Yale Science Libraries, New Haven, CT, USA  http://budurl.com/gbum

Regenerative Power Bike Wheel

Copenhagen wheel (like a Prius for bikes) unveiled 2day. iPhone app for energy, speed, traffic & nav.  I want one, likely to even work on my RideRite recumbent, and the iPhone to monitor things with :-)

http://budurl.com/w6cp

ConnectYard - social web, mobile and LMS

http://www.connectyard.com/

Class discussions via Facebook, Twitter, mobile, text, e-mail into a conversation thread in the LMS.  Works with Blackboard, Moodle, Sakai, etc. 

Mobile (and laptop) participation in class at Purdue - Hotseat

http://www.purdue.edu/hotseat

Uses its own Twitter-like interface, Twitter, or Facebook to permit students to ask questions or join discussions in and out of class.  Videos are an official promo, student reactions, and a local news report, complete with local insurance agency ad.  Of 600 students in two courses, they have a 75-80% adoption rate.   

Wired article on Abilene Christian's iPhone/iTouch project

courtesy of Alex Halavais on Twitter:
halavais: RT @dmlcentral: How the iPhone could reboot education (Wired): http://is.gd/5gjvI (12/08/2009 5:29:55 PM from TweetDeck)

Has some classroom uses for mobile - polling, looking up info and segueing that to information literacy conversations.

Ideal instructional video - how-to variety

http://jingproject.com/twitter/

Rent-a llama??

BB back up & running

Maria from Sprint called me back this morning, got my number restored. A restart and profile update, and I'm back in business, all setting and previous downloads intact.