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Can you say “Privacy Lawsuit?”

This item speaks for itself. Class Action lawyers … enjoy!

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Now it’s a party …

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Recently posts like this one have speculated that we may be experiencing yet another bubble. If you’re playing our home game you know that’s bubble #3; the dot-com boondoggle, the Web 2.0 inflate-a-thon, and now … Color.

What is Color? A photo-sharing App with wrinkles like automatically merging photos with those of every other user within 150 feet. Bam! Instant photo network with total strangers. That’s not creepy.

Business models aside however, here’s the thing. Color just came out, has never made a dime, and may never work out. But it just got $41,000,000 in venture capital funding. Sound familiar? Does Pets.com ring any bells? Netscape? Webvan? Kozmo? Flooz? Gov.com?

All coming back to you? Maybe it’s time to put your money into something stable like Tulip Bulbs.

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AT&T to T-Mobile: “I will eat your soul”

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The rich get richer …

As you probably know by now, this weekend AT&T and Deutsche Telekom entered into a definitive agreement for the sale of T-Mobile for $39 billion, creating a cell carrier just bigger than Verizon with a customer base of 130 million people; giving rise to a virtual monopoly among cell carriers . Looks like AT&T is back in its comfort zone.

iPhone and iPad users can now look forward to decades of sub-par service from the leaders in customer disappointment. Glad I bought that iPad with 3G capabilities so I can give more of my $ to AT&T.

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Foursquare Adds Recommendations

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Foursquare, the mobile application that allows you to check into locations around town like a lab-rat in a maze, can now tell you where to go as well. Now that’s a feature! Impress your friends by earning meaningless badges. Get drunk at your favorite watering hole and post compromising picturesRobert Scoble does it. Who are you to decide it’s a pointless waste of time?

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Did you hear? Apple released a new product!

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This is where I would normally shoot down the product identified in the title of this post, but I have a confession to make: when it comes to the iPad 2 I’m one of the pod people .. so to speak. Yeah, I’m a rabid fanboy. So while there has been plenty of noise this past week – both pro and con – about the iPad 2, I am most convinced by articles like this one on Techcrunch written by people who were already fans of the first iPad. Why? Because they were the ones most likely to be disappointed if the product fell short of the hype. So what was the author’s take in this case? Let’s put it this way: I’m getting one in white and one in traditional silver/black. They should be here at the end of next week. Then I’ll write my own review.

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TrialPad (the first of many, many, many ..)

Now that various tablets have jumped on the iPad-led bandwagon,  you can count on 2 things:
  1. A flood of lawyer-directed iPad and table applications, just as we did with the iPhone.
  2. Most apps will be crap or, worse still, mere aggregators (“crapregators” you might say).

Then consider that the very fact that TrialPad and similar apps exist means that developers and retailers expect lawyers to adopt tablets in large numbers, bringing us a step closer to the Jetsons-style future I’ve been waiting for since 1977 (still waiting by the way).

Hat Tip: Donna Seyle of Law Practice Strategy Blog via Martindale Hubbell Connected.

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