Thoughts on AI, architecture, and building systems that work in the real world.

Trackbacks have been disabled (temporarily)

Due to a new round of trackback spamming, I've decided to disable trackbacks… Trackback spamming was very low for a long time, but now it is back. I will re-enable trackbacks once this current spamming cycle is over… Note that comments are still…

BLUE ORIGIN REVEALED

Cosmic Log has published a story titled Blue Origin Revealed, where you can read and learn about Blue Origin, which is Jeff Bezos aerospace company – see pictures and a short video of their successful maiden test flight of their Goddard rocket vertical-take-off-and-landing…

John Battelle's The Search and prediction #13, the mobile prediction

I finished reading, actually, listening to John Battelle's book The Search. A very good book that I enjoyed very much. And listening to the actual book author is a great way to bridge the reader and author – it does add a different…

On Closing deals and buyer's remorse

Click to enlarge …every time you sell anything (expensive) to anyone, the buyer will have “buyer's remorse“… You want this remorse to only occur after the deal is closed – you don't want to end with a case of premature remorse, which will…

On Bribing Bloggers

Joel writes about Bribing Bloggers, and that …there's an interesting debate going on about whether bloggers should accept gifts from vendors.” … Come on… what is this? It is not for anyone to say or debate about what other (bloggers) should do, accept,…

Bluetooth articles & source code

If you are looking into learning how to use the Bluetooth API for Java ME, you can start by reading the following two articles and source code: Using the Java APIs for Bluetooth Wireless Technology, Part 1 Using the Java APIs for Bluetooth,…

Thoughts on Mobility 2007

This is my last weblog entry for 2006, where I'll share with you some thoughts about Mobility in the year 2007… It has been almost a decade since I first realized the potential of mobile & wireless, and the impact it would have…

Important Java ME Milestones: MIDP3 Early Draft Review, MSA Final Release

During the month of December 2006 two very important Java ME specifications milestones were reached: MIDP3 (JSR 271) entered the Early Draft Review phase Mobile Service Architecture (JSR 248) is now final release Two important specifications indeed… MIDP3 is introducing a number of…

M:Metrics reports on teen demographics, mobile-social network and user-generated content

Source: M:Metrics, Inc., Copyright © 2006. One of the hot mobility areas in to keep watch in 2007+ is the intersection of mobility and social software: mobile social software, virtual communities, messaging and user-generated content. Earlier this month M:Metrics published a report on…

Deadline for JavaOne Call For Papers is the worst possible time

I missed the deadline (again) for JavaOne submissions… December is just the worst possible time for this: the end of the year rush for both business + family, etc… JavaOne submission deadline should be sometime in January, as in the 2nd week of…