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2nd October 2008 - Link Blog

Obama '08 for iPhone (via) Slick app, impressive for a three week turnaround. I’m guessing it uses the phone number area codes in your address book to arrange your friends by state for the “call your friends” feature, which is an ingeniously simple hack.

Posted 2nd October 2008 at 6:13 pm

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