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Barbara Ballard has been organizing an event in the U.S. focused on mobile design and user experience. I think it is great, and I would be great to have the Global mobile community participate and help educate the rest of us. From the DesignForMobile website: September 23-24, 2008 — Design For Mobile will be the … Read more
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 browse content from the regular Internet on your phone, using the concept … Read more
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) are pretty awesome… On Saturday is BarCampAustinIII; both Michael Yuan and I … Read more
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 awesome anecdote and lesson on user behavior: “In other words, a segment … Read more
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 representation for such a claim? It certainly is a good measure for … Read more
…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 at eZee inc. will cover the latest trends on mobility, why the … Read more
**** 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 web design and the iPhone, James Pearce from dotMobi who will cove … Read more
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 into your mobile web applications. You can also create slick and responsive … Read more
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 years ago. Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the … Read more
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, LinkedIn, Friendster) while the object-centric network places a non-ego element at the … Read more