The Real Threat to Google (is in your pocket)

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An interesting BusinessWeek article, covers the next holly grail in marketing. Yeap you guest it; those 2 or so inches of screen real estate in your pocket; the cell phone or mobile handset. And more importantly, the application of the analysis of personal profiles and activity streams, for the delivery of relevant/customized information: As more … Read more

Better development tools for growing projects

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As our project needs grow, it was clear that it was time for eZee to invest some dough into better, integrated tools for issue tracking, change management, and knowledge sharing. For this we acquired Atlassian’s Jira, FishEye (w/ Subversion which we already were using), and Confluence (Enterprise Wiki), respectively. While not free tools, it’s worth … Read more

Developing Mobile Widgets: a comprehensible tutorial

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Thomas Landspurg (CTO of Webwag) wrote in his blog about a tutorial they published on developing mobile widgets for the Webwag platform using XML and JavaScript: The tutorial describes how to create a translator widget, using a web service and some Ajax techniques. And we’ve just opened the Developers corner on the forum, so support … Read more

Java fully open-sourced ‘by end of year’

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Sun continues its move towards a fully open-sourced Java: Sun is to open-source the last closed-source parts of Java, a move that should make it possible to fully integrate the software into Linux distributions. See the rest of articles: Java fully open-sourced ‘by end of year’ (ZDNet). ceo

Mobile Advocacy Do’s and Don’ts

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Calder Strategies published a great summary of Do’s and Don’ts for Mobile (Marketing)… It really is a great summary, which some great points, such as: The medium is young, it is risky when poorly done, and it’ll take time to judge payoffs Mobile messaging should be about interaction Be relevant and action-oriented …works best when … Read more

Great Rush Concert – Snakes and Arrows

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Last night, Rush played at the University of Texas (Austin). And they played awesome, as strong as the last time they visited, ~14 years ago; from 2112, to Tom Sawyer, and their new album… (but no Roll the Bones!) Glad they stopped by… ceo

On Startups, the economy, VCs, and calculated risks — Will VCs invest in your company?

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Investors don’t invest based on the state of the economy. Investors invest in people, technologies, potential opportunities. It is all about taking calculated risks… Assuming that you have something of interest and with great potential, if an investor is hesitant on investing in your startup, it is because there is just too much risk associated … Read more

Linux on Mobile Devices

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According to ABI Research, by the year 2013 around 20% of all mid- and/or high-end mobile devices will be Linux-based handsets… (Since such projections are typically *wrong*, let’s cut the above number by half for that year.) ceo