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Last week I launched the second major iteration of Facebook's iPhone app, which finally lives up to our users' expectations and delivers most of the features they wanted. Getting here has been really challenging, and I'm finally at a point where I can reflect back on the experience and try to share what I've learned.

A lot of people have been emailing me with Firebug questions in the last couple months - more emails than I've been able to reply to, so I apologize if you haven't heard back from me. In the last few days the emails have been more urgent than usual, so I figured that blogging would be the best way to get some answers out to everyone.

Today marks the third major iteration of this blog since its inception in 2002. On the outside there is nothing interesting about the new design - it's intentionally plain. The really exciting thing (to me, at least) is what you can't see: joehewitt.com is now 100% Python-powered.

The Carnegie Deli may be partially responsible for global warming.

Wizzard Media has announced their 2007 fourth quarter and end-of-year earnings, and have broken all records for what is expected of podcasting (the industry that’s full of hippies, remember?).

Bungee Labs, a Utah-based company in the business of managing and developing a platform for the creation and delivery of “next-generation Web applications,” announced having raised funding to the tune of $8 million, reported PEHub earlier today.

Frederic over at The Last Podcast posted his Thursday Night Thoughts, and mentioned his and the blogosphere’s general apathy over the AOL acquisition of Bebo.I guess it doesn’t matter to me much and even though it is the Techmeme headline for the day, it doesn’t really seem to get too much play in the blogosphere [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "AOL Bought Bebo.

We talked a bit about the Bitstrips service the other day, after our Kristen stopped by their booth and was inspired enough to put together a post talking a bit about how the service worked.

Jason Calacanis today wrote what I think is one of the best guides for startups looking to save money I’ve seen in a while.

Miro, the open-source Web video aggregator, has once again culled together a number of custom packages that fit specific themes for new users and existing subscribers to enjoy. The items on the agenda: food and religion.We previously brought you word of Miro’s partnerships with various content producers in building video channels.