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Mobile 2.0 Event – October 15th 2007

Registration for the Mobile 2.0 conference is now open. The one-day event is scheduled for October 15th, 2007. The event is organized by fellow Mobilists Mike Rowehl of AdMob, Daniel Appelquist of Vodafone, Gregory Gorman of The Open Group, Peter Vesterbacka of Some…

Blogging will be light

Image: The Gaping Void Too busy, too many things going on… meaning that blogging (and emails, and so on) will be very light for a while; I’ll play it by ear… ceo

Motion detection, accelerometers, the iPhone

I previously wrote about The dimension of space and movement in Mobile Applications, where I covered some of the virtues of accelerometer vs. optical approaches for motion detection. From my perspective, accelerometers rule! Not sure if real, but in the video below you…

Monetizing Social Media

In his post David Beisel covers potential methods for Social Media Monetization; a very good summary. I personally believe that monetizing from social software is a very hard thing to do; everyone loves social networking, but few wants to pay for it. Below…

Total Lunar Eclipse – August 28th

The moon was redish this morning… I saw it! Did you? Space.com has an article on this morning’s full lunar eclipse – it has been a while since I see one, and it was the first one for my daughter… See NASA’s page…

Leaving Red Hat (and go back to mobile)

No, not me, but Michael Yuan of mobile, J2ME, Nokia development, and JBoss Seam fame, is leaving Red Hat (JBoss group) to join eZee inc. I’m obviously extremely happy about this announcement… :-) ceo P.S. We are still looking for Java server developers.…

Cameron Moll’s Mobile Web Design Book

Cameron’s book on mobile web design is now available for download (PDF) at his http://mobilewebbook.com website. I got the opportunity to review the book beforehand, and I enjoyed reading it. It is a design (high-level), well written, fun to read book, that provides…

Carnival of the Mobilists #88 at Xellular Identity

The Carnival of the Mobilists #88 is at Xen’s Xellular Identity weblog, with 13 must read entries on mobility. Go check it out… Thanks to Xen for picking up my entries on digital divide and mobility. ceo

mobilityweblog.com

If you would prefer, you can use the URL http://mobilityweblog.com to get to this blog as well. ceo

Rush Tour

Rush came to town, when I wasn’t in town due to business. Rush, one of my favorite bands, I’ve missed. Life is not fair! ;-) Their U.S. tour is almost over; I wish I could make it to Chicago on September 8th, or…