On Monday we celebrated our youngest daughter Alexandras 14th birthday at the Hardrock Café in Stockholm. As a birthday gift, Alexandra got a shiny new iPod Touch (MP3 player). Among all the friends and family was my brother Anders, who quickly grabbed the gadget and turned on the built in WiFi. After he had connected the iPod to the HardRock Wlan we clicked on the built-in YouTube menu and Anders asked me "Have you seen our new movie?".

No, I said with a straight face, wondering what he was talking about. He quickly typed in EPiServer X3 in the search field and two seconds later we had the DropIT movie about their new Extension for EPiServer running in the palm of his hand!

Even without the sound, seeing a movie playing without any fuzz or complications was like magic.

The übercool gadget was of course adding to the excitement, as we fond more and more features. Small things, like a browser that actually works on a portable device!
Even the straight-out-of-the-box layout of  labs.episerver.com worked. And, turning the iPod turns the screen into landscape mode!  Zoom? take two fingers and zoom in the text!

Yesterday I had to purchase an iPod Touch for myself... Being the head of the Research Team is a tough job with all gadgets and technology that needs to be played around with :-)
I did not, however, get much sleep last night, playing around with my new gadget...

Somehow it feels like we have reached the next level of this (Internet) game: mobile Internet that actually works!

We will play around with the upcoming iPhone SDK at the Research Team and see what we can do from an EPiServer perspective.

Yes, my iPod will be kind of obsolete the day Apple finally releases the iPhone in Sweden, but until then I will have a lot of fun!

/Mike

(I know I could have bought a hacked iPhone but since I am working on a software company I need to pay some respect to using hacked software myself, even though I am not happy about Apples decision to feed the US customers first..)