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

Monetizing Social Media

In his post David Beisel covers potential methods for Social Media Monetization; a very good summary. I personally believe that monetizing from social software is a very hard thing to do; everyone loves social networking, but few wants to pay for it. Below…

Total Lunar Eclipse – August 28th

The moon was redish this morning… I saw it! Did you? Space.com has an article on this morning’s full lunar eclipse – it has been a while since I see one, and it was the first one for my daughter… See NASA’s page…

Leaving Red Hat (and go back to mobile)

No, not me, but Michael Yuan of mobile, J2ME, Nokia development, and JBoss Seam fame, is leaving Red Hat (JBoss group) to join eZee inc. I’m obviously extremely happy about this announcement… :-) ceo P.S. We are still looking for Java server developers.…

Cameron Moll’s Mobile Web Design Book

Cameron’s book on mobile web design is now available for download (PDF) at his http://mobilewebbook.com website. I got the opportunity to review the book beforehand, and I enjoyed reading it. It is a design (high-level), well written, fun to read book, that provides…

Carnival of the Mobilists #88 at Xellular Identity

The Carnival of the Mobilists #88 is at Xen’s Xellular Identity weblog, with 13 must read entries on mobility. Go check it out… Thanks to Xen for picking up my entries on digital divide and mobility. ceo

mobilityweblog.com

If you would prefer, you can use the URL http://mobilityweblog.com to get to this blog as well. ceo

Rush Tour

Rush came to town, when I wasn’t in town due to business. Rush, one of my favorite bands, I’ve missed. Life is not fair! ;-) Their U.S. tour is almost over; I wish I could make it to Chicago on September 8th, or…

Explore the sky with Google Earth – Google Sky

Two years after I wrote about how cool it would be to have a Google Sky, Google has introduced that exact product, as an extension to Google Earth. Pretty neat. See Explore the sky with Google Earth.

University Students Say “Yes” to Mobile Ads

Supporting the idea that the youth market is prime for mobile (see Going to Market: The Mobile Youth Market), see the results from a survey at Ball State University as reported at MobiAdNetwork: Technically oriented college students are increasingly receptive to receiving advertising…

The World’s Worst Web Browser: Internet Explorer

IE is WWW. But in this case WWW means World’s Worst Web (browser experience). …but you already knew that. IE is the browser the behaves differently from all others… It is so out of whack with respect to other browsers that is just…