Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
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 in the mobile industry into one network. It’s completely open for anyone … Read more
A great read by Paul Graham, How Not to Die: So I’ll tell you now: bad shit is coming. It always is in a startup. The odds of getting from launch to liquidity without some kind of disaster happening are one in a thousand. So don’t get demoralized. When the disaster strikes, just say to … Read more
The beautify of services on the web — Mashups. As of today, there are 2800 registered Mashups (The Programmable Web): Every day of the year we get new mashups get added to our directory and as of yesterday the total was an even 2800 mashups. To build these, developers have used 315 different web service … Read more
The discussions about the death of mobile applications continues on the blogosphere. At ForumOxford, a couple of discussion threads on the same topic have appeared, with the last one discussing if Mobile Apps, Dead or Dying? If you know me, you know that I can’t keep quiet about such topic; especially since all they do … Read more
An interesting perspective by Michael Mace on Mobile applications, RIP, and Mike Rowehl’s response/follow-up to it. Also see David Beers’ response; welcome back David! I would love to see the actual (empirical) data that feeds the two graphs “attractiveness of the platforms to developers” in the blog, if such data exist. If mobile applications are … Read more
Is Local faster, fresher, better? It all depends on what we want to get out of the mobile handset, and the application. But it short, it is. And I’m not making this up. We have Google, who likes (prefers?) Local for mobile applications. Google recently released their Local application for faster search for Nokia handsets … Read more
One of the things I love is 1950s art / décor and the “visions of the future” from back then… Sofa by Edward Wormley for Dunbar, 1958 ceo [copyright Plan59, info@plan59.com]
A great resource on mobile design and pattern’s is Barbara Ballard’s / Little Springs Design Mobile Patterns Wiki… We just re-launched our mobile UI patterns library into a mobile design resources center including UI patterns. It’s a Wiki, and we’d like as much contribution as possible. The idea is to have an useful, community-based, and … Read more
As we continue our journey in the evolution of our startup eZee inc., important strategic decisions are being made… I am very excited to announce that we have decided to consolidate headquarters in Austin, Texas. This is huge… ceo
Mark your calendars… Next MobileMonday Austin session is going to be an awesome one; I’m very excited. We are having special guests from out of town, James Pearce, VP of Technology at dotMobi, and Brian Fling, Director of Strategy at BlueFlavor both great speakers, and experts in the mobile and web space. We also are … Read more