About
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.
All opinions you read here are my own and are not necessarily those of my employer. See my About and my Legal pages.
I can be reached via email at "enrique.ortiz at gmail dot com" or via SMS/text message by scanning the QRCode below:
You need a QR reader installed for scanning; below are some readers:
Followers
(Since Nov 19 2009)
Monthly Archives: February 2008
On Social Network Transitions
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 … Continue reading
Posted in SocialSoftware
Leave a comment
Join Mobilists Group on 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
Leave a comment
On Startups — How Not to Die
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship
1 Comment
The Programmable Web – 2800 Mashups
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Web Services
Leave a comment
On Mobile Apps, Dead or Dying? — part 2
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, … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
Leave a comment
On Mobile applications, RIP
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
4 Comments
Is Local faster, fresher, better? Many say Yes…
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
4 Comments
Sofa by Edward Wormley for Dunbar, 1958
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]
Posted in Art
Leave a comment
Mobile Patterns Wiki
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
Leave a comment
eZee, inc. relocating its headquarters to Austin, Texas
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
Posted in eZee
Leave a comment
MobileMonday Austin, March 10, 2008, Mobile Web, iPhone, Mobile Search with Special Guests James Pearce, Brian Fling and Chris Moisan
Mark your calendars… Next MobileMonday Austin session is going to be an awesome one; I’m very excited. We are having special guests from out of town, James Pearce, VP of Technology at dotMobi, and Brian Fling, Director of Strategy at … Continue reading
Posted in MobileMonday Austin
Leave a comment
Technology Review: The 10 Emerging Technologies of 2008 (and Offline Web Applications)
TR writes their 10 Emerging Technologies of 2008. One of them is Offline Web Applications. Kevin Lynch (chief software architect at Adobe Systems) believes that computing applications will become more powerful when they take advantage of both the browser and … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
Leave a comment
Texting and its effect on the evolution of the thumb
For my friend Sean O’Sullivan, CTO at Rococo Software, here is an old piece I wrote back in 2006, on texting and its effect on the evolution of the thumb… ceo
Posted in General
Leave a comment
Barbara on “Java ME is dead. Long live Java ME.” (and indirectly on the future of mobile apps.)
Barbara writes “Java ME is dead. Long live Java ME.“, about how the word out there is about mobile web, but what her customers are ordering are Java mobile applications… Why local applications? Barbara explains it well on her blog … Continue reading
Posted in Mobility
3 Comments
Former contractor sues Google for $25m
A former contractor sues Google for $25m, claiming Google stole his idea for Google Sky. The contractor claims that he got the idea and wrote about it in an internal Google Groups email discussion group back in 2006. I am … Continue reading
