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

Transcoding is a hot topic these days in the mobile community

Andrea Trasatti recently wrote: “Transcoding is a hot topic these days in the mobile community…” ..but I’m urged to clarify that content transcoding (targeting right markup language), or transformation/adaption (reorganizing content and selecting right assets such as images depending on device characteristics) have…

Tips from Barbara Ballard on design and development of location services

Little Springs Design is an expert in Mobile User Experience. Barbara Steven recently wrote a good piece titled location is not GPS, where she covers design and development of location services. Quoting from her essay: So, to guide our design and development of…

Collective Intelligence Applied to the Patent Process

A very interesting application of the Web collective intelligence applied to the patent process. Peer-to-Patent is a pilot program that opens the patent examination process to public participation: “Help the USPTO find the information relevant to assessing the claims of pending patent applications.”…

The iPhone, One Web, Content Transformation, Multi-touch, and fingers

The iPhone has proven that touch-screen with multi-touch works great on mobile. The iPhone has also proven that true One Web or “the web as-is” (i.e. without transformation) is possible — effectively showing how dotMobi could become irrelevant. Maybe. To be successful, iPhone…

TXT is popular, but can’t help the stupid (or the sloppy)

Following my previous post on 8 BILLION texts sent every day. Or 92,000 text messages sent every second of every day, it is obvious that text messaging is very popular, but it can’t help the stupid or the sloppy… See TXT Messages Can…

Rudy De Waele: The Mobile 2.0 Start-Up Ecosystem

My friend Rudy De Waele sent me an email about his recent presentation that he did last week in London at the Mobile Web 2.0 Conference. Rudy’s presentation, Mobile 2.0 Start-Up Ecosystem (at Slideshare), is a great summary of Mobile 2.0 and the…

Guy on “The Top Ten (Sixteen) Lies of Lawyers”; also, a tidbit on this topic

Guy Kawasaki writes The Top Ten (Sixteen) Lies of Lawyers, a good fun read (especially if you have to deal with attorneys)… On this topic I will add the following though: –> Keep lawyers and your business separate… One of Guy’s points to…

8 BILLION texts sent every day. Or 92,000 text messages sent every second of every day.

Tomi T Ahonen writes SMS text messaging worth 100 B dollars in 2007, where he covers clear and impressive numbers that show that the use of SMS is not slowing down, and won’t slow down at time soon. 8 BILLION texts sent every…

Tip of the day: Kayak.com

Today I finished my arrangements for my trip to San Francisco for the Mobile 2 event where I will be speaking. Finding the best airfare deal is always a pain in the neck. My buddy Gary pointed me to kayak.com — and I’m…

Carnival of the Mobilists #92

This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is at Abhishek Tiwari’s weblog, who is hosting the Carnival for the first time, and who has done a great job with it. A great set of entries this week from the blogosphere, including Rudy of M-Trends,…