Just got off the iPhone with my friendly AT&T customer service rep. When the new iPhone 4 was announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday, I had to know if I was eligible for the upgrade. The new iPhone 4 comes in two configuration, 16 gig and 32 gig, and is available for $199 and $299, respectively, for those who are eligible.

Here’s the deal. AT&T says that typically you would have to be at least 21 months into your current 2-year contract to purchase the new iPhone for the prices listed above. However, they’ll also consider your monthly recurring charges; if they’re high enough, you can upgrade sooner than the 21 months.  When you upgrade, you’ll begin a new 2-year agreement.

Your plan and plan charges will stay the same. But here’s an important little piece of information: If you’re lucky enough to have an unlimited data plan, hang on to it. If you ever decide to downgrade to AT&T’s 2 gig or 200 MB plan, you’ll never be able to go back to an unlimited plan. AT&T no longer offers one. Subscribers lamentably attest that AT&T wireless network can at times be excruciating slow, so AT&T is taking measures to reduce activity. (Hopefully they’re also taking measure to increase capacity.) If you have an unlimited data plan, consider yourself lucky. With the new FaceTime video phone and multitasking features, you’re going to want that bandwidth.

There is a one-time $18 upgrade fee, and AT&T offers new insurance plan called Mobile Protect for $13.99 per month. You can purchase this insurance within thirty days of your iPhone 4 purchase, and it covers you if your iPhone 4 is stolen, lost, flushed down the toilet or left at a Silicon Valley bar.

Check out Apple’s infomercial for the iPhone 4:

http://twendz.com/
Twendz is a service that helps you measure sentiment and brand impact on Twitter. Sentiment is a measure of how people feel about a particular topic, and it’s an important metric in Social Media. This is a great service for companies who want to see what’s being said about them or their products.

http://ezinearticles.com/
This article syndication site consistently tops the lists of best article directories. EzineArticles maintains high page rank and strong traffic count, they’re great promoters, offer great online publishing tips through their authors newsletter, have worthy editorial policies, and they’re persistently refining, enhancing and developing their services. It’s the personal committment of Christopher M. Knight, CEO, and his team that make this the number go-to article syndication site for publishers and authors alike.

http://www.goarticles.com/
GoArticles.com makes the claim of being the Web’s largest free content article directory, receiving 10,000 – 12,000 article submissions weekly. They provide good services to authors, publishers and visitors alike.

http://www.articlesbase.com/
This article syndication site is a free article directory where you can submit and find articles. Like most, it’s free. You can publish your original articles and includes a link back to a page on your website in the Author’s Bio section. The site is also useful for finding content for your website, ezine, or newsletter.

As everyone knows, Digg is big. The friendly giant of social bookmarking sites. Here’s what Digg says: “Because Digg is all about sharing and discovery, there’s a conversation that happens around the content. We’re here to promote that conversation and provide tools for our community to discuss the topics that they’re passionate about.” You’ve seen the icon, the little man with the shovel. He digs deep.

https://www.diigo.com/
A bookmarking site worth bookmarking! Research, share and collaborate. Great toolbar features. You can even highlight. Looks like this could become a Weejee favorite.

http://buzz.yahoo.com/
Buzz what you will, but Yahoo! does a lot of the work for you. They determine what topics are popular based on what people are searching for on Yahoo!, then they showcase the most popular stories based on buzzing, voting, commenting, emailing. And clever bookmarking strategies.

http://blogmarks.net/
Can’t really comment on this bookmarking service because when wee tried to register, as of the date of this post, wee got this: “public registration is temporary off, send us a kind email if you want to be invited, thank you ! [sic]“

http://mystuff.ask.com/
Add Web pages, add tags, add folders, add pictures from you desk top, add a Save button to your browser. But don’t ask Jeeves. Wee don’t think he’s around anymore.

Loving this one. I’m watching the sentiment rating of the movie “Nine” as tweet updates roll by me in real time. Not quite as exciting as the movie, though.

Heard about this site today on NPR’s Market Place: www.BookOfOdds.com. Great idea. I love, well, how social it is. You might want to have a look and bookmark it on Delicious, Digg or StumbleUpon. The site is worth being reminded of.

http://www.pandia.com/sw-2004/23-yahoo.html
This article gives the syntax to use in a Yahoo search window to see all the pages that link to your site, or to specific pages in your site. Useful.