Scripting News: Just saw an iPhone ad on CNN

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Just saw an iPhone ad on CNN

And it's good. Really good.

Here's how it goes...

Narrator: "You're watching Pirates of the Caribbean (on AppleTV of course), and someone says they'd like calimari."

The user clicks a button. Google Maps comes up. Click. A keyboard comes up. Types C-A-L-A-M-A-R-I. Enter.

Pushpins appear on the map. (The phone knows where you are?)

The user touches a pin. A small card with a phone number pops up. Clicks the number. The phone dials. Hello, please send over some calamari.

It's a subset of the Knowledge Navigator without the guy in the bow tie.

Quite compelling. My Blackberry can't do it. Okay maybe I just decided to buy one.

Ooops. ";->"

PS: Rich Karpinski says my Blackberry can do it, and iPhone doesn't have GPS. At least it's a good ad.

PPS: The ad is on the Apple site, along with all the others.

Last update: Thursday, June 3, 2010; 4:00:52 PM

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Dave Winer, 55, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in New York City.

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