It’s been more than 3 months since I first got my hands on the Palm Pre. Yes, I’m technically a blogger, and yes, I received this awesome phone from Palm so stop worrying FTC. As one of 10 winners of the “Real Reviewers Program,” Palm provided me with a Pre (along with an unlimited plan) for 6 months! Palm did not tell me to blog about it, but I can’t help myself. The truth is that I was a believer since the day it was announced and I am totally a fan. Popular Mechanics ranked the Pre as one one of the 10 most brilliant products of 2009 so I don’t think I need to tell you that this phone is amazing.

Palm has made some really interesting announcements recently, including the Palm Pixi, the second WebOS device on the roster. The Pixi is a more affordable, more artistic version of the Pre that should be released soon. Palm is also releasing the Palm Pre in various countries and networks, including a GSM version in Spain on October 14th.

In addition, paid apps are now available and Palm is going to allow open and closed source version of Pre apps to be distributed (which is drastically different better from Apple’s app approval process). With over 120 apps and soon to grow exponentially, Palm is finally able to say that it has a good quantity of apps on its catalog. And the quality of the apps is great so far (see below for examples).

Also exciting is the fact that Adobe Flash might be coming to the Pre much sooner than I expected. Yes, you heard that right. Flash Player 10.1 tailored for the Palm Pre. That means Hulu, YouTube, BlogTalkRadio, etc. Sweet. Double Sweet.

But, what’s it like having a WebOS phone? Good question…

Here’s a summarized example of how I use the Palm Pre on a regular basis:

7:00am- Wake up. I’m not very good at waking up so I have 5 alarms that go off every 5 minutes with different songs.
7:25am – Check my Gmail account, which is beautifully integrated with the device.
7:28am – Check my Hotmail account, which is integrated almost as nicely, but with 5 times the spam. (more…)

Kara Andrade from HablaHonduras and I have a panel up for consideration for the 2010 SXSW Interactive Festival and we’d appreciate it so much if you guys voted for us and commented here on SXSW’s PanelPicker.

Labor Day is the last day to vote!

You can also help us spread the word by sharing this link http://bit.ly/votesxsw with everyone you know.

The title of the panel is “Here Come All the Latino Bloggers” and we intend to boldy go where few Latinos have been expected to go before. You might have noticed the lack of latino representation at everybody’s favorite interactive event in Austin, TX, but I am proud to announce that the Latino blogger, columnist, and citizen journalist has finally arrived.

Our panel will be about what is happening online and offline in Latin America, including Streisand effects, citizen journalism, jounalism 2.0, social injustice, and the digital divide.

The panel will also let you find out out more about the bloggers that are leaving a mark in the US and worldwide in the name of Latin America when it comes to politics, social justice, marketing, music, and technology.

By the way, here are some of the questions we hope to answer with out panel:

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The Social Nerdia Show! Episode #20 is now available for streaming below, on blogtalkradio, or as a podcast on iTunes.

In this episode, @socialnerdia and first-time co-host @domineconcept talk about the latest..

Tech News: eBay finally sells a large portion of Skype, personalized in-videogame ads, Augemented Reality in your eyes with Wi-Fi in your brain, Wikipedia color schemes

Not-So Tech News: Disney acquires Marvel, Fox’s Twitter commentaries on re-runs, and Macaulay Culkin rumored to be real father to MJ’s “Blanket”

Upcoming Movie Releases: Gamer, Extract, Amreeka

Upcoming Music Releases: They Might Be Giants – Here Comes Science, Derek Webb – Stockholm Syndrome, David Bazan – Curse Your Branches, Andrew WK – 55 Cadillac, The Used – Artwork

Randomized Topic of the Day: Crowdsourcing (CP+B / Brammo, Fiat)

Announcement: Don’t forget!!! Today’s the last day to vote for SXSW panels… Please vote for “Here Come All the Latino Bloggers“ http://bit.ly/votesxsw

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The Social Nerdia Show! Episode #18 is now available for streaming below, on blogtalkradio, or as a podcast on iTunes.

In this episode, @socialnerdia and @somerlea talk about the latest..

Tech News: Canada makes Facebook rethink privacy, IBM’s patent for a blogging/tweeting TV remote, Microsoft’s CAPTCHA advertising patent, and YouTube’s new viral video revenue sharing.

Not-So Tech News: Searching for Jessica Biel is like searching for malware, Jason Biggs gets attacked by a Gibraltar ape (for real).

Upcoming Movie Releases: Taking Woodstock, The Final Destination, Big Fan

Randomized Topic of the Day: Bob Dylan is working with GPS companies to get his voice on your car. Bob Dylan telling you to turn right or left sounds like the beginning of GPS awesomness.

Don’t forget!
- Vote for SXSW Panel ”Here Come All the Latino Bloggers” http://bit.ly/votesxsw

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David Alston is the VP of Marketing and Community at Radian6, a software firm that helps remove the barriers to effective social media monitoring and analysis. I had a great time chatting with David on the 15th episode of The Social Nerdia Show! and you can listen to the conversation in its entirety on the player below or by subscribing to our podcast on iTunes.

I checked out a demo of Radian6 before talking to David, and I must say I was impressed. Their tool looks pretty slick and comprehensive. I particularly like the fact that it integrates with Salesforce and WebTrends, which many companies already use. And, as David told me, Radian6 is going to integrate with more CRM, Business Intelligence and Analytics systems in the future.

David shared about how the young company got started by being part of the online community. He also explained how their real-time web-based solution enables companies to interact online without having to manually go to every blog and site out there. ”Once you get all that data from all over social media, from all the YouTubes of the world, Flicker, all the blogs,Twitter, Friendfeed, news, all that stuff gets pulled into one big topic profile and once it’s there you can do all kind of drill downs and look for trends.”

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The Social Nerdia Show! Episode #14 is now available for streaming below, on blogtalkradio, or as a podcast on iTunes.

In this episode, @jestebanc, @somerlea and @jonsterp talk about..

Tech News: Facebook acquires FriendFeed (for $47.5 Million), the 230 MPG Chevy Volt, and Radiohead abandoning the “creative hoo-ha” of albums.

Not-So Tech News: A Dutch survey reveals people preferring the toilet over friends, sex, and other things.

Upcoming Movie Releases: The Time Traveler’s Wife.

Randomized Topic of the Day: Jet Blue’s all-you-can-fly plan for $599.

We finally pulled it off in 30 minutes. Plus, we added some sound clips in between segments and improved the sound quality a bit. Thanks for listening!

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The Social Nerdia Show! Episode #13 is now available for streaming below, on blogtalkradio, or as a podcast on iTunes.

In this episode, @jestebanc and @somerlea talk about..

Tech News:  Netflix rumored to be on iPhone & Wii, eReader Wars intensify with Sony’s newest and the potential of color eInk, plus TiVo strives to stay alive while adding video podcasts (featured shows and via RSS feeds).

Not-So Tech / Pop Culture News: Miley Cyrus gets stalked by a crazy old guy who has been barred from following her on Twitter. Also, Paula Abdul is finally officially out of American Idol (the pending question on everybody’s mind is whether her seat on the show can be sold on eBay).

Random Stuff: The earthiness and trendiness of “going green”, ebook-highlighting apps, and Gilligan’s Island actual location.

Upcoming Movie Releases (Aug 7th): The indie-ish movie/documentary “Paper Heart” and the scary-ish “Perfect Getaway.”

Randomized Topic of the Day: A listener left us a voice message about the recent Twitter DDOS attack and the new NFL & ESPN rules around Twitter and the social web. The call was so awesomely thorough that there wasn’t much more to be said, except the fact that Twitter probably loves the extra free press and… that we would love to see Donald Trump in-billion-dollar-merger tweets and/or NFL player in-game-while-punting tweets :)

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