Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced the advancement of the Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 to Candidate Recommendation. Of great importance is that these are the guidelines that are going to be used to enforce .mobi mobile website's behavior. From the W3C website: “Written for designers of Web sites and content management systems, these … Read more
Download NetBeans 5.0 For many, IDEs are a religious topic. For me it is about ROI – the best bang for the buck. I've tried many Java IDEs – today I use NetBeans. I've seen NetBeans grow to what it is today – in 2001 while I was at AGEA, we created a plug-in to … Read more
Today's launch attempt was scrubbed (for the second time) due to weather – 3rd attempt will occur on July 4 – great day to have a launch! Update: We are a go for launch, today July 4th! If you like to follow the STS-121 launch and mission, visit the STS-121 Discovery page. It is pretty … Read more
The poll for the Carnival's best post for June is up… My entry, “The Mobile Perimeter” is running – if you liked it, feel free to vote for me! :-) ceo
This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Jan Kuczynski at the Wireless World Forum – go check it out. Visit the Carnival to read this week’s best writing pieces about mobile from mobility bloggers around the blogosphere. Click on Carnival of the Mobilists button below to go the Mobilists website and learn more … Read more
On his blog, Tristan Louis wrote 5 reasons why social networks can succeed. But what Tristan has described is much more than 5 reasons to succeed – he described the true essence of social networks software: Viral Nature Provides an Online Identity Enhances Knowledge Satisfies humans basic need to share Satisfies humans basic need to … Read more
It is all over the news: Intel sells phone-chip unit to Marvell for $600 million… Buckley of MobHappy wrote on his blog about how this decision may signify the beginning of the death of Intel. While I don't think it will be the death of Intel, it does seem short-sighted. But also, this event is … Read more
Barbara and Tom Hume got it right – mobile applications should really follow the underlying UI metaphor/behavior vs. implementing their own in an attempt to create “consistency across handsets”… From the developer's perspective, initially it may seem such consistency is the right approach, as developers are deploying the same app across many devices… but in … Read more
Like the 1975 Nazareth song, Love hurts… but this time is about soccer… Soccer hurts, Soccer scars, Soccer wounds, and marks… If you follow soccer, and play soccer, you know how physical the game could be… And last week was my turn – an offensive move, a dribble towards the goal, shot, and a save … Read more
The bar chart below shows the results for the developer survey “Are you using “Location” in your app?”, as of June 25th, 2006. A total of 90 developers have responded. As with past polls, this poll will remain open to continue capturing developer feedback… Some observations…. The distribution between “using location” (30%) and “no need … Read more