Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
The Argument The argument is that from the user’s perspective, having to download an application kills the experience, and that people just won’t download. Yes, it is a pain to download, but it is not a killer. People will download applications as long as the application brings the right value or makes a difference. A … Read more
(If you don’t see the poll below, please go to the poll in my blog: Poll: I’ve or will have unlimited “texting plan”) You must enable JavaScript to vote in this poll from Pollverize. Update: I changed this poll from Jyte to Pollverize, as Jyte requires to login (I had forgotten that part), making the … Read more
(If you don’t see the poll below, please go to the poll in my blog: Poll: I’ve or will add a “data-plan” to my phone so I can access to Internet or web on my mobile phone) You must enable JavaScript to vote in this poll from Pollverize. Update: I changed this poll from Jyte … Read more
Voice is the primary medium and use for cellphones; no surprise there. It is the primary medium for communication purposes. While voice has great potential as a medium for delivering information, voice is also more intrusive, and linear in nature, thus slower, than the visual representation of the same information. Opposite to this, voice as … Read more
As I look at the landscape today vs. where we are going, the next generation of mobile applications (called it Mobile 2.0) is less about emerging technologies, and is more about emerging uses/applications, and the related business models. There are few “emerging technologies” per se, yet, by bringing many of the current technologies and concepts … Read more
I typically don’t write about sports in my blog, but… …with the Yankees loosing to the Indians, it is the end of a dynasty, and the beginning of major changes, new faces, new players — a younger Yankee team. It was a tough loss, but the Indians were just better. Enter new times… See Consider … Read more
A big theme post-PC era was ubiquitous computing. …but ubiquitous computing is too abstract and means nothing all by itself. But when applied to humans, ubiquitous computing is more about computing for the purpose of communication and for the purpose of information access. This is ubiquitous communication (communication anytime, everywhere), and information ubiquity (information everywhere). … Read more
Jason McCabe Calacanis has come up with the “official” definition of Web 3.0: Web 3.0 is defined as the creation of high-quality content and services produced by gifted individuals using Web 2.0 technology as an enabling platform. …and a very lame definition that is. I’m sorry. Inherent in the definition of a major milestone or … Read more
The other day in response to a question in the KVMLIST I spent some looking into JSON, as I haven’t used it before for data exchange. I’ll say that I actually like JSON quite a bit, due to its simplicity, and its structure — structured name/value pairs. For example from the JSON.org page: An object … Read more
Scheduled for January 22-24, 2008, the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer conference is devoted solely to the technologies of mobile and embedded Java platforms and is targeted for application developers of intermediate and advanced skill levels, platform developers, and technical personnel at tool vendors, OEMs and carriers. Planning is underway for a series of technical … Read more