Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
I previously wrote about The dimension of space and movement in Mobile Applications, where I covered some of the virtues of accelerometer vs. optical approaches for motion detection. From my perspective, accelerometers rule! Not sure if real, but in the video below you will see iPhone’s accelerometer in action courtesy of Medallia: The folks at … Read more
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 are David’s potential ways to monetize social media, paraphrased as I’ve interpreted … Read more
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 for today’s total lunar eclipse. ceo
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. For more information see the eZee in Jobs page.
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 Cameron’s insights and general strategies on mobile web design, while also providing … Read more
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
If you would prefer, you can use the URL http://mobilityweblog.com to get to this blog as well. ceo
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.
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 via text messages on their cell phones and other mobile devices, says … Read more