Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
Who said Google was a search company? In the beginning it was. Today Google is a collaboration company: IM, email, calendar, writing, maps, and searching, and so on. Maybe they should package their collaboration related products under the Google Collaboration product/brand name. Google has released its Google Calendar web application. And the title of their … Read more
My blog has been very quiet lately, but for good reasons: ceo
You gotta love Scott Adams…. Today – “Sales Secret Weapon”… Click on the image to go to Dilbert.com:
This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted at Helen Keegan's Musings of a Mobile Marketer. You will find essays on mobile marketing, communities, mobile web 2.0, service and product reviews, and other. Enjoy the Carnival! ceo
Come on Blogger! How can you just disable the Mobile Monday Austin blog?!!! Your automated process suck. MoMo Austin is not a SPAM blog!!! Man, I tell you, this is the exact reason why SLAs should be extended to Web 2.0!!! Crap. It seems that I need to move MoMo Austin blog out of Blogger … Read more
Nokia has published their test criteria for J2ME and Symbian applications… It is good to go over these, and keep them handy. These documents will tell you about allowed content, power consumption, UI, interactions, and other requirements that your application must meet if you want to work directly with Nokia — passing the Nokia testing … Read more
There has been a lot of activity the last couple of months (end of 2005, early 2006) in the Java ME Community, with updates to many specifications (JSR). Many of these updates are happening because JSR 248 Mobile Service Architecture (MSA) is going final. For those of you who don't know what MSA is, MSA … Read more
If you want to learn about how to make money with Google, go grab a copy of Make Easy Money With Google: Using the Adsense Advertising Program, which is written by my buddy Eric Giguère, mobility expert, and now considered the contextual advertising expert… Very cool. The book, which is targeted at people who want … Read more
The W3C has published The XMLHttpRequest Object specification working draft… As you may know, the XMLHttpRequest object is at the center of AJAX, and while it is implemented across Web browsers, the implementations are not 100% interoperable, requiring special handling by developers. The goal of this W3C XMLHttpRequest specification is to “document a minimum set … Read more
No surprises here… A Mobile TV study by Red Bee Media concludes the obvious: “full length programming on mobile is not as popular as made for mobile TV because screen sizes are too small, opportunities to watch full length programs on-the-go are rare and subjects preferred to watch full-length programming on the TV” But… it … Read more