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I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with my new iPhone over the last week. The overall user experience is great, making the device a joy to use.
Not sure if you heard or not, but Apple touted several aspects of the phone as revolutionary, and managed to generate a bit of hype about the iPhone before its launch.

Even the keyboard garnered some attention. In the official Apple video on the iPhone keyboard - which describes its intelligence and elegance - the company tells us that the keyboard adjusts itself for the task at hand. When you browse the web, for example, “the space bar…has been replaced by special keys relevant to a web-based application…because you don’t use spaces in a URL.”

Interesting…and smart. But what are the “special keys” that magically appear when you go web surfing? Sadly, there is nothing revolutionary here. The company threw in a “dot” key (a period by another name), a forward slash key, and a “dot com” key.

Ho hum. Not extremely innovative…and quite disappointing, in my opinion.

I honestly expected more from Apple. I had hoped that the new keyboard would open new doors to mobile users, but, alas…we got the lowly “dot com” key. The company really missed the boat here.

It’s not to late, though. Apple could make a couple of simple changes to the iPhone keyboard that truly change the mobile computing experience.

How?

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SEDO is currently listing panoramio.info in its Recent Sales panel. The domain name apparently sold for $2k.
But to whom?

Here’s some interesting facts:

• Panoramio is a web-based, geo-tagged-image storage company that agreed to be acquired by Google on May 31st of this year.
• The whois record for the domain was updated yesterday and now reflects an acquisition company as the registrant.
• Where I sit in the world, the domain redirects to this site. That might change as a DNS change propagates, but we’ll see….

Anyone want to give odds on whether Google bought the domain?