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In response to comments from various mobility bloggers, including mine, Ajit Jaokar has written part 2 of “Mobile web 2.0: AJAX for mobile devices – why mobile AJAX will replace both J2ME and XHTML as the preferred platform for mobile applications development”. A very good essay that I recommend you read. Ajit did a good … Read more
It has been a while since I posted to my blog — I have been extremely busy… I have a couple of good pieces coming, but in the meantime, there is an article of mine that was recently published in the Sun Java Mobility Developer Website… Two common questions that I get about the Web … Read more
… The other day, while reading Guy Kawasaki's weblog, I laughed when he wrote that “he was the author of 8 books, or, the same book 8 times…”. Having been an author myself, I thought that was pretty funny. Just for the record, it is 8 books, and great books they are. Today while reading … Read more
What kind of mobile application are you creating? I have posted a new mobility poll to understand the distribution of mobile applications being created. You can find the poll at the top of my Mobility Resources page. Also, the current mobility poll can be found on the right side of this blog. ceo
Wow, this week we got lots of entries – that's great. By the end of the year we will need to hire someone to handle the volume! Let's begin with Daniel Taylor (The Mobile Enterprise Weblog). In his entry, Blurring the lines between “work” and “play” – A Hobson's Choice for enterprise IT Daniel explains … Read more
On his website, MobHappy, Russell Buckely wrote here and here about Google changing the way content is displayed on people’s phones, without permission. Below is a modified, expanded version of the comment that I left at MobHappy, in response to Russell's blog entry: I think Google didn’t mean evil here — they just tried to … Read more
We had a great Mobile Monday in Austin last night… Thanks to all the speakers. It was good to see all the different perspectives to LBS from our speakers: David from M:Metrics who covered stats/metrics Jon from Bones from Motion who covered LBS in fitness (or active lifestyle) space Tony Lee from NavComp who covered … Read more
isolatr is a Yahoo! company… And it is hilarious… A product that was built out of necessity? Maybe. And I love Xeni's quote on their main web page… pretty raw, but it cracks me up! Oh, and don't forget about their IMolatr – antisocial applied to IM! If you hate interacting with people, because you … Read more
This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is at Martin's Mobile Technology Page. Great selection of entries: Host Martin Sauters, Mobile Technology Page, Wireless VoIP Demystified – Part 2: SIP Carlo Longino, MobHappy, Selling Dollars for a Dime Jim Downing, Smartmobs, The Phone is the Key John Sun, Mobile Analyst Watch, First Week: Garmin Forerunner 205 … Read more
A very neat idea and solution conceived by Microsoft's Ray Ozzie and his team. Wiring the Web with LiveClipboard is about extending the clipboard to the web, by making it web-sensitive. It allows the end-user to consume structured content and services without programming, using the simple clipboard methaphor… cut and paste, publish and subscribe. Add … Read more