I thought this was well expressed by Fred Stutzman on his piece Social Network Transitions: “To generalize, let’s consider two types of social networks: ego-centric and object-centric. An ego-centric social network places the individual as the core of the network experience (Orkut, Facebook,…
Paul Golding has created a new Mobilists group on Facebook: A group for leading thinkers, entrepreneurs and technologists within the mobile/wireless space, hoping to drive innovation within the industry. I created a Mobilists group on Facebook to try and assemble the best people…
A great read by Paul Graham, How Not to Die: So I’ll tell you now: bad shit is coming. It always is in a startup. The odds of getting from launch to liquidity without some kind of disaster happening are one in a…
The beautify of services on the web — Mashups. As of today, there are 2800 registered Mashups (The Programmable Web): Every day of the year we get new mashups get added to our directory and as of yesterday the total was an even…
The discussions about the death of mobile applications continues on the blogosphere. At ForumOxford, a couple of discussion threads on the same topic have appeared, with the last one discussing if Mobile Apps, Dead or Dying? If you know me, you know that…
An interesting perspective by Michael Mace on Mobile applications, RIP, and Mike Rowehl’s response/follow-up to it. Also see David Beers’ response; welcome back David! I would love to see the actual (empirical) data that feeds the two graphs “attractiveness of the platforms to…
Is Local faster, fresher, better? It all depends on what we want to get out of the mobile handset, and the application. But it short, it is. And I’m not making this up. We have Google, who likes (prefers?) Local for mobile applications.…
One of the things I love is 1950s art / décor and the “visions of the future” from back then… Sofa by Edward Wormley for Dunbar, 1958 ceo [copyright Plan59, info@plan59.com]
A great resource on mobile design and pattern’s is Barbara Ballard’s / Little Springs Design Mobile Patterns Wiki… We just re-launched our mobile UI patterns library into a mobile design resources center including UI patterns. It’s a Wiki, and we’d like as much…
As we continue our journey in the evolution of our startup eZee inc., important strategic decisions are being made… I am very excited to announce that we have decided to consolidate headquarters in Austin, Texas. This is huge… ceo
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