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Welcome to About Mobility. My name is C. Enrique Ortiz and this is my blog where I cover mobile computing in general - my views on mobility, software, technologies & products, and related areas; with the occasional tangent into other unrelated thoughts. I try to blog at least once per week, if time permits.
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Monthly Archives: August 2007
Motion detection, accelerometers, the iPhone
I previously wrote about The dimension of space and movement in Mobile Applications, where I covered some of the virtues of accelerometer vs. optical approaches for motion detection. From my perspective, accelerometers rule! Not sure if real, but in the … Continue reading
Monetizing Social Media
In his post David Beisel covers potential methods for Social Media Monetization; a very good summary. I personally believe that monetizing from social software is a very hard thing to do; everyone loves social networking, but few wants to pay … Continue reading
Posted in SocialSoftware
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Total Lunar Eclipse – August 28th
The moon was redish this morning… I saw it! Did you? Space.com has an article on this morning’s full lunar eclipse – it has been a while since I see one, and it was the first one for my daughter… … Continue reading
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Leaving Red Hat (and go back to mobile)
No, not me, but Michael Yuan of mobile, J2ME, Nokia development, and JBoss Seam fame, is leaving Red Hat (JBoss group) to join eZee inc. I’m obviously extremely happy about this announcement… ceo P.S. We are still looking for Java … Continue reading
Cameron Moll’s Mobile Web Design Book
Cameron’s book on mobile web design is now available for download (PDF) at his http://mobilewebbook.com website. I got the opportunity to review the book beforehand, and I enjoyed reading it. It is a design (high-level), well written, fun to read … Continue reading
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Carnival of the Mobilists #88 at Xellular Identity
The Carnival of the Mobilists #88 is at Xen’s Xellular Identity weblog, with 13 must read entries on mobility. Go check it out… Thanks to Xen for picking up my entries on digital divide and mobility. ceo
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mobilityweblog.com
If you would prefer, you can use the URL http://mobilityweblog.com to get to this blog as well. ceo
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Rush Tour
Rush came to town, when I wasn’t in town due to business. Rush, one of my favorite bands, I’ve missed. Life is not fair! Their U.S. tour is almost over; I wish I could make it to Chicago on September … Continue reading
Posted in General
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Explore the sky with Google Earth – Google Sky
Two years after I wrote about how cool it would be to have a Google Sky, Google has introduced that exact product, as an extension to Google Earth. Pretty neat. See Explore the sky with Google Earth.
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University Students Say “Yes” to Mobile Ads
Supporting the idea that the youth market is prime for mobile (see Going to Market: The Mobile Youth Market), see the results from a survey at Ball State University as reported at MobiAdNetwork: Technically oriented college students are increasingly receptive … Continue reading
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The World’s Worst Web Browser: Internet Explorer
IE is WWW. But in this case WWW means World’s Worst Web (browser experience). …but you already knew that. IE is the browser the behaves differently from all others… It is so out of whack with respect to other browsers … Continue reading
Posted in General
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JAVA as Sun’s ticker symbol
Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced in his blog about the The Rise of JAVA – The Retirement of SUNW. Many reactions on this can be read on the web, including the comments on Jonathan’s blog; too many for me to … Continue reading
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The iPhone, European Carriers, Steve Jobs, and the new times (oh, and Google too)
My friend Gary Mendel (CMO at eZee) pointed me to this story: Carriers Chosen for European iPhone From the story: Apple has chosen its carriers for the iPhone launch in Europe, according to a report published Tuesday in the Financial … Continue reading
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2008 SXSW Interactive Panel Picker – pick mobile!
Last June I posted here in this blog and in other places the call for mobility panelists for the 2008 SXSW interactive festival with the goal of promoting mobility at the festival… well the results are in. This year 38 … Continue reading
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Mobility and digital divide, part 2 – Role of the developer
Following my previous post Mobile, data plans and the digital divide, what can we, as mobile software product developers, do to help with the problem of cost of ownership that result in a digital divide? The answer is that we … Continue reading
