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Monthly Archives: September 2007

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On iterations, mobile, texting, web, and local applications (oh, and voice)

(Update: this piece omitted voice as a medium, and it has been updated to reflect such.) A good post by Tom Hume on Iterations, mobile, and Java, on the debate of web vs. local, a debate that in my opinion is getting kind…

Jonathan Knudsen on “Using Java ME to Program Your Mobile Phone”

Jonathan sent me an email that he will be teaching a tutorial on Java ME programming at OOPSLA in October. The details from his email follow: Title: Using Java ME to Program Your Mobile Phone Time & Date: Monday, October 22, 1:30 PM…

Mobile 2.0 Event – A Day Exploring the Future of Mobile

A reminder that Mobile 2.0 event is coming soon, and that the early bird special at $145 is coming to and end, available until the end of September. After that the regular price is $185. The event is almost sold-out. What makes Mobile…

Mobile Web and JSF (and transformation/adaptation)

Following the recent discussions on The iPhone, One Web, Content Transformation, Multi-touch, and fingers and Transcoding is a hot topic these days in the mobile community, here (at eZee) we are going through the pains related to this topic of mobile web and…

Transcoding is a hot topic these days in the mobile community

Andrea Trasatti recently wrote: “Transcoding is a hot topic these days in the mobile community…” ..but I’m urged to clarify that content transcoding (targeting right markup language), or transformation/adaption (reorganizing content and selecting right assets such as images depending on device characteristics) have…

Tips from Barbara Ballard on design and development of location services

Little Springs Design is an expert in Mobile User Experience. Barbara Steven recently wrote a good piece titled location is not GPS, where she covers design and development of location services. Quoting from her essay: So, to guide our design and development of…

Collective Intelligence Applied to the Patent Process

A very interesting application of the Web collective intelligence applied to the patent process. Peer-to-Patent is a pilot program that opens the patent examination process to public participation: “Help the USPTO find the information relevant to assessing the claims of pending patent applications.”…

The iPhone, One Web, Content Transformation, Multi-touch, and fingers

The iPhone has proven that touch-screen with multi-touch works great on mobile. The iPhone has also proven that true One Web or “the web as-is” (i.e. without transformation) is possible — effectively showing how dotMobi could become irrelevant. Maybe. To be successful, iPhone…

TXT is popular, but can’t help the stupid (or the sloppy)

Following my previous post on 8 BILLION texts sent every day. Or 92,000 text messages sent every second of every day, it is obvious that text messaging is very popular, but it can’t help the stupid or the sloppy… See TXT Messages Can…

Rudy De Waele: The Mobile 2.0 Start-Up Ecosystem

My friend Rudy De Waele sent me an email about his recent presentation that he did last week in London at the Mobile Web 2.0 Conference. Rudy’s presentation, Mobile 2.0 Start-Up Ecosystem (at Slideshare), is a great summary of Mobile 2.0 and the…