Rumors about new Apple gizmo’s to be released at WWDC are starting to swirl, moreso following the recent (totally expected) hardware announcements. One of the big rumors going around is about a wifi 802.11g iPod. The potential of a wifi iPod is amazing:

• iPod streams to AirPort Express speakers
• iPod controls iTunes via wifi (universal iTunes remote)
• iPod able to stream music to other iPods (local music parties)
• iPod able to update from iTunes library wirelessly (slow, but the fewer wires the better)
• Internet access on iPod (drool)
• Possibility to wirelessly purchase music from commercial sources (concerts, stores, etc), directly to iPod
• Roaming iTMS access
• Radio via Internet streams
• An exceptionally cool $499 pocket wifi detector

In short, the iPod would be much more of a peer device to the computer, right now iPods are mostly dead-end portable containers.

Much as I know it will never happen, I really wish Apple would just release an iPod SDK. THEN we’d start to see some really cool stuff.

This post started as a comment to Steven Frank’s blog.

Sitting on a park bench looking across the Hudson River at the Colgate Clock and Ellis Island. Two hours left on the laptop battery, three bars on an open wifi network, it’s relatively quiet and a cool breeze is blowing in off the river. It’ll probably rain soon, but for now I’m catching up on email and relaxing a bit.

I walked by Ground Zero for the first time in a long time. It makes me kind of wish I worked in construction. I also saw the memorial and tower models in the Winter Garden atrium. They’re going to be beautiful. Most encouraging, there will be a clean, perfect vertical line up the southernmost corner of the Freedom Tower. I rarely heard it mentioned, if ever, but the corners of the old WTC towers were astounding, perfect vertical planes going up nearly a fifth of a mile. I’d never seen anything else like it. When the new tower is done, I’ll be most looking forward to that sourthern point, standing at the bottom and looking up along the tallest unbroken vertical line on Earth.