Happy Fall Y'all!

Sheri and I went to a pumpkin patch yesterday and I was blown away by the variety of squash and pumpkins now available. I love the fall and especially the colors. The patch was at Webb Ranch in Portola Valley, CA, so the prices were also impressive...many of the more unique varieties priced over $25 for a "head-sized" punkin! One of the things that impressed me was the variety of people and cultures who turned out. There was a large Indian family picking out pumpkins and taking pictures of their kids sitting on pumpkins, all delighted by the event...including their elderly grandmother, who was dressed in an orange Sari that matched the hues of the field perfectly. I think Halloween is the second most "adoptable" American holiday...the first of course is Thanksgiving; everyone likes to eat! Check out my slideshow below.

iPhonathon

People started lining up at the Apple Store in downtown Palo Alto two days ago and it's grown to a full block long with about 200 people. To me this is a fascinating cultural phenomenon. One interesting element is how small startups are seizing on this to promote their own companies. I heard two dot-commers do a biz dev deal in line where one company is giving away iPhones and asked another to be a sponsor and actually pay for one of the two phones...handshake, deal done.

My hope is that Steve Jobs won't pull a Nintendo-Wii on us and will have enough of these babies in stock to satisfy the masses.

There's plenty of hype around this launch, it's been orchestrated beautifully, and there are plenty of critics...I think the reality will come out somewhere in the middle as to how much of a watershed event this will wind up being. Ultimately, my sense is this will be remembered as the point when Mobile really emerged as a platform for consumer applications.

Here's a fun picture of me with the Mega iPhone:

Cool New Site: Kyte.tv

Hello all...It's been quite some time (which is my usual pattern)...so I'm planning on getting active again for a bit.

I'm going to start sharing thoughts on latest cool new sites/technologies.

The first is Kyte.tv, an interesting idea that brings together slick ways to share image and audio across many different websites and mobile devices. Perhaps the ability to both consume and publish stills and video on a mobile phone is the most unique thing they do.

One of the features I like the most is the Live Chat function that lets people chat in real-time, within the TV widgets, across many different sites.

Kyte uses a TV metaphor and media shared is encapsulated in "shows" on "channels." Check out mine here: