This morning I walked back to my computer after taking a shower and saw the dialog box pictured to the left sitting on my desktop. Apparently the Apple iPhone camera was connected to my computer. That’s strange though because no iPhone was ever connected to my computer. I’ve been thinking about the new iPhone a lot recently, even going so far as heading over to the AT&T store to find out the scoop on the new phone and finding out how much I’ll have to pay.

Unfortunately I’m not currently eligible for an upgrade and will find myself paying $299 for the new iPhone. No matter how much it costs, it’s now become my job to buy the new phone and so when it launches on Friday I will be one of the customers waiting in line for the 2nd version of the iPhone. There is a ton of buzz surrounding the new iPhone and much of it is focused on the new games that will be launching in the new iPhone application directory.

I’ve also been hyping the phone as the next device to transform the entire social web. I still stand by that and with f8 following right behind the iPhone launch, I have a feeling that we may see a new mobile offering by Facebook as well. Whatever ends up happening at f8, one thing is certain: this week’s iPhone launch is going to be big. My calling came in the form of a desktop notification. Have you been called upon to purchase the new iPhone?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few days, there is a good chance that you’ve heard about Apple’s new 3G iPhone which is set to transform the mobile industry. The new phone comes with GPS, runs on the faster 3G network, has improved battery-life and only costs $199 for the 8 GB model. Unfortunately for me I listened through the entire Apple Worldwide Developer Conference keynote on Monday just to get to the end where Steve Jobs announced the new device.

While there were false rumors about video chat and dual cameras on the phone, the phone is still expected to dominate the cell phone market. Piper Jaffray expects Apple to sell a whopping 45 million iPhones next year. It’s not just the iPhone that will positively effect Apple’s bottom line though. Based on numbers that Dan Frommer completed, Apple could generate upwards of a quarter billion dollars in operating income from iPhone application sales.

While I am currently a Blackberry user I am most definitely going to purchase one of the new iPhones for the purpose of testing out the new applications being built on the platform. With GPS integrated applications, the phone will transform location based services and in my own opinion it also will transform the social web. As I’ve said on numerous occasions, the phone is inherently a social device whereas a computer is not.

Will you be purchasing the new iPhone? Do you think it’s going to help transform the social web?

Late last year an iPhone version of Facebook was launched and received a ton of positive user feedback. Jake Marsh just released a video of MySpace for the iPhone. The applications looks amazing but the one thing that I don’t understand is how Jake plans on accessing a user’s inbox. Additionally, according to the demo displayed below you can access band music from the application. I’m not quite sure how this works because the songs aren’t technically accessible via the API and the URLs are not accessible via the page source code.

Jake now has over 12,000 Twitter followers thanks to this video becoming a hit on Digg. Jake Marsh decided to create his own API for MySpace using screen scraping. If this application is for real, Jake will more than likely have his app acquired since he is doing most of the work for MySpace. There are a lot of great features and it’s a duplicate of the iPhone application developed by Facebook. This is highly impressive and it would be great if other platforms produced something similar.

I think the real breakthrough will come when each of these platforms begin to offer mobile platforms in which applications can run. While Facebook already offers a mobile platform it is highly limited. I have a feeling that we will see a lot more applications developed for mobile as the standards for mobile applications become much simpler and phone begin to offer better interfaces for users to interact with.