Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
Josh Kopelman (Redeye VC blog and managing Director of First Round Capital) wrote a piece titled Depending on pending… where he argues about the importance of patents w.r.t. barriers to entry vs. focusing on going to market first: Most people don’t realize that the average software patent will take many years from initial application to … Read more
The Phoenix Mars Lander has landed. Perfect landing. Congrats to the Phoenix Lander team… Phoenix touched down on the Red Planet at 4:53 p.m. Pacific Time (7:53 Eastern Time), May 25, 2008, in an arctic region called Vastitas Borealis, at 68 degrees north latitude, 234 degrees east longitude. …and the Children of the Earth continue … Read more
Below is a diagram that will appear on a piece that I am writing. The diagram presents (and compares) the attributes for the different methods for mobile software application programming (non-messaging): Click to Enlarge — Mobile Internet Programming: Browser, Lightweight, Local-based Applications. Comments are welcome. ceo Update – May 23 ’08: I just found these … Read more
I haven’t blogged for a whole week… My team and I have been extremely busy, heads-down, with no time to blog. I’ve lots good stuff to blog about, thoughts and technical stuff, and my apologies for my slow blogging, but let’s not forget Blogging Conjecture #1… But it’s all good… lot’s of great stuff coming … Read more
dotMobi continues providing great services to the mobility development community, and has published Ten Mistakes in Mobile Web Marketing. It is a good compilation of things to avoid and related suggestions and best practices: The mobile web is taking off, with traffic rising on thousands of great mobile websites from the world’s top brands and … Read more
From Google lays out mobile future (Silicon.com): Google Mobile group product manager, Hugo Barra, added a great user interface – like Apple’s iPhone – and a flat data plan are key in making mobile internet appeal to consumers. A great UI and flat data plans…. Right on… Also: Chang said that Google prefers to avoid … Read more
If you own a home, or are looking to buy one, check out Zillow.com, a very cool website/tool. You can look at homes, or if selling, check your home, and all the information, photos and charts based on public records, market history, and other…. You can set estimates based on upgrades done to the home, … Read more
Interesting, I just read via Olle’s blog JavaWire, about MSA version 2 (JSR 249)… I haven’t been able to keep up with JSR 249 for a while; so I decided to take a look at it today. …wow, lots of things have happened. For one, it is no longer called MSA for CDC, but now … Read more
Mowser lives; pretty awesome. Just read that dotMobi has acquired Mowser, and that Mike and Russ will join dotMobi… From dotMobi Loves Mowser (dotMobi): At long last we can announce some great news! dotMobi is acquiring the well-known Mowser service that provides content adaptation services for mobile. We’re very excited about this. Russell Beattie and … Read more
Sun has released (at J1) its Lightweight UI Toolkit (LWUIT) for Java ME, the library, demos and example code, as part of the a new project LWUIT on Java.net: LWUIT is a UI library that is bundled together with applications and helps content developers in creating compelling and consistent Java ME applications. LWUIT supports visual … Read more