Though many people in Denmark and Europe consider the iPhone as an extremely expensive mobile phone, the concept is quite the opposite in USA. Many low income people in the US don’t have a spare income to invest in a (laptop) computer as well as a broadband connection, and are thus using the iPhone for all the internet business.

Just a funny thought when you compare our ways of using the potentials of the (i)phone…

Supplementary reading at TechWorld…

And now for the funny iPhone-image-f-the-day :-)

As described on engadget, Monster Media has created several innovative kinds of interactive / ambient displays that extend our perception of commercial in the urban/public space by directly engaging the user/consumer in the commercial.

With this approach a completely new path for innovative commercials has been paved.

Engadget describes it this way: “we’ve most certainly seen window-based advertising used to lure the untrained eye to any manner of wares, but Scion‘s latest iteration certainly takes interactive promoting to new heights. In order to market its limited edition tC Release Series 4.0, it partnered up with InWindow to cover a series of street-side windows with bubbles which reacted to movements made by captivated individuals walking by. Granted, the installation isn’t nearly as addictive as say, trying to wrangle up every single Pokémon, but it definitely managed to hold the attention of a few geeked-out civilians. Check it out for yourself, the video’s right after the jump.”

Do check out the video demos on the Monster Media website.. You-ll find some amazing stuff there…

Adobe just released their first online photo editing software called Adobe Photoshop Express. It’s based on Adobe Flash and you can experience it at www.photoshop.com/express and try it out the many photo editing features.

This may just be one of the best current examples of an Rich Internet Application (in my opinion)..

UPDATE:  And the blog ReadWriteWeb has now released an article about how Adobe is going inline with many of their applications. Very interesting if you ask me.. Read the article!

As described on the ReadWriteWeb blog, many new and interesting ways of visualizing the content/use of the internet are popping up all over the place. Fx. LivePlasma uses an intelligent Flash engine to displays semantic relations between music and/or movies.

Another example is flickrvision that displays the latest flickr image posts in real time. The service is able to display the images on 2D maps and as a 3D globe like in Google Earth.

Recommended links:

• Fidg’t – social networking address book
• Aharef: Websites as graphs
• Packet Garden. Grow a world from network traffic
• Crazyegg – visualizeyour visitors