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Carnival of the Mobilists # 30 at Darla Mack’s weblog

This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Darla at her blog… Good job Darla! Visit the Carnival to read this week’s best writing pieces about mobile from mobility bloggers around the blogosphere. Click on the above Carnival of the Mobilists button…

Web 2.0 Debacle – Part 2

Tim O'Reilly posted a response to the Web 2.0 trademark debacle… where he expresses his discontent towards the whole issue, which is totally understandable. Putting the trademark issue aside, I will say that am surprised that Mr. O'Reilly is surprised about how the…

Mobile Monday Austin – Browser-based mobile applications – Special Guest, Jon S. von Tetzchner, co-founder and CEO of Opera Software

The next Mobile Monday Austin is scheduled for June 5th. Come see local technology leaders from M:Metrics and Frog Design, as well as our special guest, Jon S. von Tetzchner, co-founder and CEO of Opera Software, discuss browser-based mobile applications – the industry…

Mobile Banking has Finally Arrived

Is mobile banking finally here (I mean, in the U.S.)? It has taken financial institutions a long time to understand and feel comfortable with the technologies behind mobile banking, as well as understanding the implications to the financial institutions and to the end-users,…

The "Web 2.0" Service Mark Debacle

“Do as I say not as I do!” The Web 2.0 is supposed to be about the open, collective, community-based use and evolution of the Web, so what happened here when O’Reilly trademarks “Web 2.0” and sets lawyers on IT@Cork? This recent trademark…

Theory vs. Practice

Theory “a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena; “theories can incorporate facts and laws and tested hypotheses”; “true in fact…

Carnival of the Mobilists # 29 at Open Gardens

This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is at Ajit Jaokar’s Open Gardens weblog… Visit the Carnival to read this week’s best writing pieces about mobile from mobility bloggers around the blogosphere. Click on the above Carnival of the Mobilists button to go the…

Launch Photography

I found a very neat web site called Total Eclipse (http://www.launchphotography.com) by photographer Ben Cooper, with photos of current and past Space Shuttle and other rocket launches, for example, you will find a great collection of new photos of the Shuttle Orbiter Discovery…

Mobility Blog Star – The Pondering Primate

Every now and then I like to write about a (mobility) blogger that I really like… And today, I want to write about The Pondering Primate weblog… And while he is known as the Pondering Primate, his real name is Scott P. Shaffer,…

The Problem with Mobile

On his blog, Seth Godin asks himself “Why hasn't the whole cell phone industry exploded?“. While Seth's believes it is because "we've been trying to solve the wrong problem.", that is not the true reason… The problem is twofold – from the technology…