Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
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 adaptation. Michael Yuan has been writing a series on JSF and mobile … Read more
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 been a hot topic since the early days! While things have been … Read more
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 location services, remember that: Every phone is location enabled. As long as … Read more
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.” This is great and worth a try! ceo
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 relies on zooming, touch-screen with multi-touch, and, fingers! Yes, fingers. (Is the … Read more
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 Lead to Divorce, Jail ceo
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 related ecosystem today. Related to this also see Rudy’s essay on Understanding … Read more
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 watch out for is when you are told by an attorney firm … Read more
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 day. Or 92,000 text messages sent every second of every day. It … Read more
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 sold! The website searches a bunch of different airlines and travel sites … Read more