Breakfast Links: Little mo’ iPhone, Daytrips & Class Calculator
Ok, I know yesterday was iPhone day, but apparently today Apple let the review embargo lapse so now there’s tons of hands on reviews from big media. Check out Gizmodo for a bit of a roundup and Netly News for a review of the reviewers. (fakesteve’s take on Mossberg’s review is pretty great.) Ok, that’s it on the iPhone. Until it isn’t.
You should see this Bugaboo Daytrips site. If you’re a parent or know parents, you know that Bugaboo’s are the strollers that made the high end stroller market - but this site doesn’t have much to do with that. It may be mildly kid friendly, but it’s a beautiful flash application (although it could have better functionality) that shows you maps of various neighborhoods in many cities around the world. NYC’s own Chinatown and Upper East Side maps are gorgeous. San Francisco’s, though, is kinda lame. But it is definitely worth a gander, just remember to go back you just have to click somewhere that isn’t on the main viewing area, sometimes you have to click twice.
And finally if you want to see how you compare to the Joneses, you gotta see this interactive graphic on the NYTimes on How Class Works. Ok, it isn’t really a calculator (that’s what MeFi told me it was), you know I wanted it to say that I was part of this class or that one. But it uses information from the 2000 and 2003 US census and tells you how your doing along 4 axes - occupation, education, income and wealth. Soon, they’ll add a fifth column, the iPhone column which will measure your worth by number of iPhones, how quickly after release you purchased yours and which plan you got. Sorry! I forgot about my iPhone embargo. That is the last, really. Until it isn’t. If you dig on your class you can also read the article on it in the NYTimes.
