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The upgrade to Wordpress 2.5.1 seems successful. The console looks good and if you are reading this, we are all good… Cheers!

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Upgrading to Wordpress 2.5.1 (from 2.2.1) — meaning, my weblog is going to be in an unstable state for a bit (I hope)… Cheers!

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An interesting BusinessWeek article, covers the next holly grail in marketing. Yeap you guest it; those 2 or so inches of screen real estate in your pocket; the cell phone or mobile handset. And more importantly, the application of the analysis of personal profiles and activity streams, for the delivery of relevant/customized information:

As more consumers browse the Web on their cell phones, the No. 1 search engine must cope with less space to place ads

See The Real Threat to Google (BusinessWeek).

Related to this see Andreas Weigend on the Consumer Data Revolution.

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As our project needs grow, it was clear that it was time for eZee to invest some dough into better, integrated tools for issue tracking, change management, and knowledge sharing. For this we acquired Atlassian’s Jira, FishEye (w/ Subversion which we already were using), and Confluence (Enterprise Wiki), respectively. While not free tools, it’s worth the investment, and having the integrated environment/tools really kicks ass, and makes my life much easier, with better project visibility for everyone…

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Thomas Landspurg (CTO of Webwag) wrote in his blog about a tutorial they published on developing mobile widgets for the Webwag platform using XML and JavaScript:

The tutorial describes how to create a translator widget, using a web service and some Ajax techniques. And we’ve just opened the Developers corner on the forum, so support will be given to all our developers.

See Mobile Widgets: a comprehensible tutorial.

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Sun continues its move towards a fully open-sourced Java:

Sun is to open-source the last closed-source parts of Java, a move that should make it possible to fully integrate the software into Linux distributions.

See the rest of articles: Java fully open-sourced ‘by end of year’ (ZDNet).

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Calder Strategies published a great summary of Do’s and Don’ts for Mobile (Marketing)… It really is a great summary, which some great points, such as:

• The medium is young, it is risky when poorly done, and it’ll take time to judge payoffs
• Mobile messaging should be about interaction
• Be relevant and action-oriented
• …works best when it’s pull, not push
• Trust is key
• …tell how to opt out regularly, and never ever spam

Read the whole article — Mobile Advocacy Do’s and Don’ts

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[Via Smart Mobs]

Last night, Rush played at the University of Texas (Austin). And they played awesome, as strong as the last time they visited, ~14 years ago; from 2112, to Tom Sawyer, and their new album… (but no Roll the Bones!)

Glad they stopped by…

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Investors don’t invest based on the state of the economy. Investors invest in people, technologies, potential opportunities. It is all about taking calculated risks…

Assuming that you have something of interest and with great potential, if an investor is hesitant on investing in your startup, it is because there is just too much risk associated with your deal… You don’t have the right set of people, and/or there are no (sufficient) barriers to entry, and/or your company isn’t properly structured. Or maybe your investor community just “suck”; not all investor communities are created equal (i.e. not all investor communities get it).

But don’t give up… Remember that raising money is a very slow, painful, and adaptive process, and that the second idea is always the important one.

Related to this see What Bubble? VCs Still Pouring Money Into Web 2.0.

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Andreas S. Weigend (People & Data) is one of those visionary (yet practical) individuals, like Tomi T. Ahonen (Communities Dominate Brands), who I follow, and love how they think… as their way of thinking is very inline with my way of thinking, and with what we do at eZee inc.

Andreas recently wrote a great, insightful post titled The Two Data Revolutions: Why do we need a sound data strategy? that is right on the spot. Related to this, I recently wrote a response to another insightful, right on the spot post by Tomi titled Tomi T. Ahonen on Data-mining, identity, digital footprint, and social context.

…the interactions (intentions and activity streams), the user-provided information (with their permission), the meta-data — what Andreas call “People & Data”, what Tomi refers to as “Digital Footprints”, that when combined with the “User Context”, is what I call People-centric Computing/Information…

…People & Data, Digital Footprints, the Consumer Data Revolution, People-centric Computing and Information, are all names or descriptors for the next phase, revolution on information and computing; and this is especially true for mobile computing…

Let’s make it happen…

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According to ABI Research, by the year 2013 around 20% of all mid- and/or high-end mobile devices will be Linux-based handsets…

(Since such projections are typically *wrong*, let’s cut the above number by half for that year.)

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Dial jobs to 23933 (2eZee) to learn about current job openings at eZee inc. It is simple and fast. (Other rates may apply; LOL)

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Tim Bray said at his Ruby Conference keynote speech last week:

Rails is “a big deal, a hot deal”,

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“Let’s face the facts: Ruby is too slow,” Bray told delegates. He says Ruby 1.8.6 - which dominates the enterprise landscape - is up to 20 times slower than Java.

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“When you start to run Rails, you get wildly non-linear performance. Rails has worked well on Ruby 1.8.6… everything else is a work in progress. It’s weird and it’s hard to understand,” Bray said.

…at the end, it is about time to market vs. performance.

Read the rest at Why is Ruby on Rails so darn slow? (Reg Developer).

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A very good presentation Using Static Analysis For Software Defect Detection; William Pugh, Google TechTalks, July 6, 2006:

William Pugh — I’ll talk about some of my experience in using and expanding static analysis tools for defect detection. The FindBugs tool developed at the Univ. of Maryland is now being widely used, including inside Google. I’ll give an overview of FindBugs, show some of the kinds of errors we routinely find in production code, discuss the methodology we use for enhancing and expanding FindBugs and some of the recent additions to it, discuss ways of incorporating FindBugs into your development process (such as being able to get a report of all the warnings introduced since the last release of your software), and talk about the future of static analysis, including things such as a new Java JSR to provide standard annotations for things such as @NonNull and @Tainted.«

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Good, another phone with NFC; Nokia has introduced its 6212 Classic phone, but now with NFC support; see the press release.

See the Nokia 6212 specs (GSM Arena).

More related news:

• The Nokia 6212 Classic with NFC (3G Week)
• Nokia’s 6212 with Bluetooth NFC: Let the pairing revolution begin! (Engadget)
• Nokia introduces 6212 Classic, NFC-enabled handset (Contactless News)

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