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Twitter is increasingly becoming a richer and richer part of users lives. Even with all the twitter evangelism, though, there are still plenty of hold-outs who think it's silly or might not be useful. It's becoming a network that activates the 6 Degrees of Separation principal in powerful ways. This past weekend, Mike Arrington's Internet access went down. Comcast customer service failed for him, and after spending some time with a chicken, he vented on Twitter. Shortly after the tweet, Mike got a call from a Comcast executive and his problem was quickly repaired. Even though I can't expect every Geek Brief viewer to join twitter, I believe in its benefits enough to try. If you're not following me, I'm at twitter.com/calilewis.

The Samsung Instinct is intended to be an iPhone killer. It has a few advantages including 3G and real GPS, but it doesn't have a browser as great as Safari on the iPhone.

eBay has decided to do the Naked Conversations thing and launch a corporate blog. The editor-in-chief is my friend, Richard Brewer-Hay. The blog launched last week and ebay users with pent up frustrations started commenting like crazy. It's really kind of fun to read, but my heart goes out to Richard as he interfaces with the world on ebay's behalf.

iCoral was the craziest gadget I saw today. It's a $2000 iPod dock made of artificial coral.

Hava is a place-shifting device that does some things Slingbox doesn't. They have a player for Nokia Internet Tablets. The guys at TabletBlog.com got their hands on a pre-release copy and showed of the results. You can get a Nokia N810 for 15% off at podshowoffers.com (more details here). Use Promo Code "geekbrieftv".

The Wacom Cintiq 12WX is the most awesome tablet interface device we've seen. It came out last November, but we missed it. It serves as a second monitor, and I think it's the same tablet Maribeth Gandy used for her Second Life application demo. Read More