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Monthly Archives: October 2007

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[Off topic] Yankees out, end of dynasty, enter new era

I typically don’t write about sports in my blog, but… …with the Yankees loosing to the Indians, it is the end of a dynasty, and the beginning of major changes, new faces, new players — a younger Yankee team. It was a tough…

On ubiquity

A big theme post-PC era was ubiquitous computing. …but ubiquitous computing is too abstract and means nothing all by itself. But when applied to humans, ubiquitous computing is more about computing for the purpose of communication and for the purpose of information access.…

Web 3.0, the “official” definition – not!

Jason McCabe Calacanis has come up with the “official” definition of Web 3.0: Web 3.0 is defined as the creation of high-quality content and services produced by gifted individuals using Web 2.0 technology as an enabling platform. …and a very lame definition that…

JSON for Data Exchange (vs. XML)

The other day in response to a question in the KVMLIST I spent some looking into JSON, as I haven’t used it before for data exchange. I’ll say that I actually like JSON quite a bit, due to its simplicity, and its structure…

Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days Conference

Scheduled for January 22-24, 2008, the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer conference is devoted solely to the technologies of mobile and embedded Java platforms and is targeted for application developers of intermediate and advanced skill levels, platform developers, and technical personnel at tool…

Mobility-related speaking engagements for October 2007

I will be speaking or presenting at the following events during October 2007: Emerging Technologies panel at Mobile 2.0 event, October 15th. NFC in Mobile Commerce at Texas Wireless Summit, October 18th. Hope to see you there… ceo

Mowser – mobilizing the Web

I think Mowser rocks. It is simple, seems to use the right approach to context adaptation, and man, it’s fast — just check the Mowser version of Techmeme Top 100. I am not sure though about the business model that Russell is going…

Carnival of the Mobilists #93 @ Communities Dominate Brands

Another great edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists, this week at the Communities Dominate Brands blog. Thanks to Tomi for picking up my blog entry On iterations, mobile, texting, web, and local applications. ceo

An XML Internet Operating System

I recently read about Xcerion’s XML Internet Operating System. Hmm, an XML OS? Do you think that the OS is slow, or highly verbose? The specifications and possibilities of Xcerion XML Internet Operating System (XIOS/3) include some quite interesting features. The essence of…

After two days, my website is up again!

My website was down for two days… supposedly a general network outage in the Downtown Chicago area where a number of servers for the hosting company that I use are located. That was painful! My apologies. If you sent me email in the…