Thoughts on AI, architecture, and building systems that work in the real world.

eZeeLabs WebClip2Go, SXSW Interactive 2008 Mobile Companion

At eZeeLabs, the research and development group at eZee inc., we are announcing an early version of WebClip2Go, a free service that let users “clip” content from live web sites and make that content available on mobile phones. In essence, it lets you…

SXSW Interactive, BarCampAustin, MoMo, other

Wow, this week starts SXSW Interactive. Can’t wait. Such a cool event, with great folks coming to visit. It all begins this Friday the 7th and goes through Tuesday the 11th. The panel sessions are great, and the evening events/parties (140 in Upcoming)…

An amusing but cautionary SMS tale

Michael Yuan pointed me to a very interesting read about the unintended uses of product features… In this case, users using a share function for P2P chatting… See An amusing but cautionary SMS tale at the Mippin blog. I believe it is an…

C# set to take Java’s crown as Java drops 50 percent

In the article C# set to take Java’s crown as Java drops 50 percent, Matt Asay of C/Net writes that C# is taking over Java. He bases his argument on book sales (source O’Reilly Media). Do you think book sales are a good…

Global Wireless Trends for 2008 and Beyond @ InnoTech SA

…for those interested, I’ll be speaking on Thursday at InnoTech in San Antonio. InnoTech is more of an IT’ish kind of event, but a good place to evangelize mobility to business folks. Global Wireless Trends for 2008 and Beyond: “C. Enrique Ortiz, CTO…

Reminder: MobileMonday Austin, March 10th 6pm at Austin City Hall — Mobile Web, iPhone, Mobile Search with Special Guests James Pearce, Brian Fling, Chris Moisan and David Gill

**** Reminder **** A reminder that next Monday, March 10th is our next MobileMonday Austin event, at 6pm at the Austin City Hall. It is going to be a good one… We have special guests Brian Fling from BlueFlavor who will cover mobile…

Google Gears for Mobile Devices

In its pursue for rich web applications for mobile, Google has taken it’s Gear product to mobile. From the announcement Power up your mobile web applications: “It’s a fully functional port of Google Gears v0.2 that can be used to develop offline capability…

Communications-Related Major Archeological Findings, On All Three Coasts

From Cajun News Network: After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100…

On Social Network Transitions

I thought this was well expressed by Fred Stutzman on his piece Social Network Transitions: “To generalize, let’s consider two types of social networks: ego-centric and object-centric. An ego-centric social network places the individual as the core of the network experience (Orkut, Facebook,…

Join Mobilists Group on Facebook

Paul Golding has created a new Mobilists group on Facebook: A group for leading thinkers, entrepreneurs and technologists within the mobile/wireless space, hoping to drive innovation within the industry. I created a Mobilists group on Facebook to try and assemble the best people…