A beautiful and perfect Space Shuttle launch, in support of the International Space Station (ISS); STS-124/Discovery carrying Japan’s Kibo laboratory to the Station: After STS-124, there are 9 more missions to go to complete the ISS. See NASA’s Space Shuttle website. ceo
Great set of slides by Jason Calacanis — the three most important factors in predicting the next big thing. | View | Upload your own
NFC is a technology that not only is being deployed today, but that will be found on mostly every mobile phone in the future. And with this comes security and hacking concerns. I just found an interesting presentation by Collin Mulliner titled Attacking…
If you see a flashing light while looking at the moon, it might not be an optical illusion but an meteoroid impact; from 100 Explosions on the Moon (NASA): Over the past two and a half years, NASA astronomers have observed the Moon…
Josh Kopelman (Redeye VC blog and managing Director of First Round Capital) wrote a piece titled Depending on pending… where he argues about the importance of patents w.r.t. barriers to entry vs. focusing on going to market first: Most people don’t realize that…
The Phoenix Mars Lander has landed. Perfect landing. Congrats to the Phoenix Lander team… Phoenix touched down on the Red Planet at 4:53 p.m. Pacific Time (7:53 Eastern Time), May 25, 2008, in an arctic region called Vastitas Borealis, at 68 degrees north…
Below is a diagram that will appear on a piece that I am writing. The diagram presents (and compares) the attributes for the different methods for mobile software application programming (non-messaging): Click to Enlarge — Mobile Internet Programming: Browser, Lightweight, Local-based Applications. Comments…
I haven’t blogged for a whole week… My team and I have been extremely busy, heads-down, with no time to blog. I’ve lots good stuff to blog about, thoughts and technical stuff, and my apologies for my slow blogging, but let’s not forget…
dotMobi continues providing great services to the mobility development community, and has published Ten Mistakes in Mobile Web Marketing. It is a good compilation of things to avoid and related suggestions and best practices: The mobile web is taking off, with traffic rising…
From Google lays out mobile future (Silicon.com): Google Mobile group product manager, Hugo Barra, added a great user interface – like Apple’s iPhone – and a flat data plan are key in making mobile internet appeal to consumers. A great UI and flat…