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

Mowser – mobilizing the Web

I think Mowser rocks. It is simple, seems to use the right approach to context adaptation, and man, it’s fast — just check the Mowser version of Techmeme Top 100. I am not sure though about the business model that Russell is going…

Carnival of the Mobilists #93 @ Communities Dominate Brands

Another great edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists, this week at the Communities Dominate Brands blog. Thanks to Tomi for picking up my blog entry On iterations, mobile, texting, web, and local applications. ceo

An XML Internet Operating System

I recently read about Xcerion’s XML Internet Operating System. Hmm, an XML OS? Do you think that the OS is slow, or highly verbose? The specifications and possibilities of Xcerion XML Internet Operating System (XIOS/3) include some quite interesting features. The essence of…

After two days, my website is up again!

My website was down for two days… supposedly a general network outage in the Downtown Chicago area where a number of servers for the hosting company that I use are located. That was painful! My apologies. If you sent me email in the…

Decoupling social networking, communication vs. search, and apples vs. oranges

Shawn Conahan, CEO @ Intercasting, wrote and interesting piece titled Decoupling social networking, but his following statement is just strange: “Simply put, Communication is more valuable than Search. ” I was going to leave a comment in his blog, but couldn’t find how,…

The New ROI: Return on Interaction

I like this definitions for ROI, by John Maeda, associate director of research and Allen Professor of Media Arts & Sciences at the MIT Media Lab: From iThinking About iPods: Designers can tackle the time challenge in two different ways: by making the…

On iterations, mobile, texting, web, and local applications (oh, and voice)

(Update: this piece omitted voice as a medium, and it has been updated to reflect such.) A good post by Tom Hume on Iterations, mobile, and Java, on the debate of web vs. local, a debate that in my opinion is getting kind…

Jonathan Knudsen on “Using Java ME to Program Your Mobile Phone”

Jonathan sent me an email that he will be teaching a tutorial on Java ME programming at OOPSLA in October. The details from his email follow: Title: Using Java ME to Program Your Mobile Phone Time & Date: Monday, October 22, 1:30 PM…

Mobile 2.0 Event – A Day Exploring the Future of Mobile

A reminder that Mobile 2.0 event is coming soon, and that the early bird special at $145 is coming to and end, available until the end of September. After that the regular price is $185. The event is almost sold-out. What makes Mobile…

Mobile Web and JSF (and transformation/adaptation)

Following the recent discussions on The iPhone, One Web, Content Transformation, Multi-touch, and fingers and Transcoding is a hot topic these days in the mobile community, here (at eZee) we are going through the pains related to this topic of mobile web and…