Austin Texas – cold, cold

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I was reading Erik Smartt's blog where he wrote about the recent winter storm here in Austin… Yeap, it was pretty bad. Ice everywhere, and it even snowed here, which is not typical. Erik made me laugh with the photo he grabbed of the “snacks and chips” aisle on the grocery store, where it seems … Read more

Quintura – Visual Search

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There are 2 main killer applications: 1) access to friends-and-family, and 2) access to information… …and Search has been and will continue to be a killer application; it is about better access to information. Today I found Quintura, a visual search web engine… check it out. We are still scratching the surface when it comes … Read more

Carnival of the Mobilists #58

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Photo by Rick Takagi Some rights reserved. This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is at Tom Landspurg's TomSoft weblog – 17 blog pieces from mobilists from all around the blogosphere – topics include opinions and news on Apple's new mobile handset, on mobile stats and marketing, CES news, enterprise and MVNO, Nokia handsets, Microsoft and … Read more

The Apple Phone and Platforms as Walled Garden

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I landed on Doug T's blog, a Mozilla Minimo developer, while working on the 2007 Mobile Monday Austin calendar planning. At Doug's blog I read his entry The new “walled garden”, and I liked his following quote: “The new walled garden is not the content you can view on your phone, but rather the applications … Read more

¿Mobility Weblog en Español?

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Tengo una pregunta para mis lectores en Español – ¿Les sería de interés, y útil, si yo transladara algunos de mis piezas al Español? Transladar toma tiempo y esfuerzo, pero yo estaría dispuesto a hacerlo si es que hay necesidad… -translation- I've a question for my Spanish-speaking readers – would you be interested in, and … Read more