Until now I hadn't seen any actual admission from Apple that the iPad doesn't support Flash. Sure, Flash was clearly missing when Steve Jobs demoed The New York Times' site on the device Wednesday, but that could have simply been a result of demoing nonfinal software. The shipping version of the iPad could certainly support Flash.

When the original Tweetie for Mac was released it was easily the best Twitter client that had ever been. I loved the Zen simplicity of it, and when Tweetie for iPhone was released I quickly became a fan.

Since then, Tweetie for Mac hasn’t changed one bit. No geolocation. No lists. No retweets. And as much as I’m not a fan of TweetDeck, it has become my de facto standard on the desktop.

On iPhone, the story’s a little more complicated. When Tweetie 2 was released, I thought it was great — a natural progression from the already-great 1.0. But within a few minutes I started to notice problems. It was like my phone had amnesia. After a couple weeks of Tweetie 2, I had to give up and move to EchoFon. I feel the same way about EchoFon that I do about TweetDeck — it’s extremely clunky and doesn’t have nearly the user experience of Tweetie. But it works.

For a while I would still go back to Tweetie 2 for one-off tasks. But no more. Tweetie 2 has completely died on my iPhone. It has refused to update the main timeline for a month and a half now. Ridiculous.

I hope Tweetie’s developer gives me a reason to come back.

The New York Times has this deal for a $100 off a Samsung Go netbook when you purchase a one-year Times Reader subscription ($179.40). And the Times has an iPad-ready app; I wonder if we’ll see a similar deal when the iPad launches.

Gowalla today opened up the ability to plans trips to all users, which should save a lot of confusion for newbies. Until today I assumed I *could* make a trip and was simply too dumb to figure out how.

I made my first trip called Minneapolis Beer Tour with seven venues (which coincidently is the perfect number for taking this screen shot). You can add up to 20 venues to a trip; what am I missing?

More on Gowalla trips.

Update: It seems you can’t add venues to a trip after you’ve published it. Boo!

During today’s iPad unveiling, Steve Jobs positioned Apple in two interesting new ways.

The first was as a mobile devices company. iPod, iPhone and now the iPad is their flagship line of products. MacBooks too are somewhat mobile devices. Now I don’t think Apple will be discontinuing their iMac, Mac Pro or Final Cut Studio businesses anytime soon, which makes his other statement all the more interesting.

To my argument that Apple will buy Yahoo! you can add Steve positioning Apple as a company at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. It seems to me picking up Yahoo!’s content and social network businesses would really help out that image.

I may be the only one who wasn’t full of anticipation for today’s iPad announcement. Not that I didn’t think it had the potential to be mind-blowing (it isn’t), but as a first-generation iPhone owner who is more than ready for a faster, more featured handheld, all I was really hoping for was a new iPhone to show up the Nexus One.

All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard, and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.
—Conan O’Brien on his final show.

I was feeling pretty cynical about Conan O’Brien’s advice for us to not be cynical. How insincere — how could he possibly believe himself after his experience with NBC?

But the more I think about it, the more I feel that it’s solid advice, and I will try to keep it in mind. Watch Conan’s parting words if you haven’t yet.

(A bonus ironic T-shirt for geeks.)

If the Beatles were brought back from the dead and did a reunion show, I’d pay $127 to see that. Not Michael Bublé.

One of my IRL friends apparently thinks I’m sharing too much. Is she right?

I got this e-mail right after the Viking lost to the Saints tonight. I’m sad, but I also have free pizza. John (P) and John (S) get it. This is great marketing.