Read Jason’s post on his recent/real experience related to mobile advertising, and how when he clicked on an AdMob ad, the advertiser (not AdMob?), without permission, recorded the phone number and immediately initiated SPAM over SMS… Terrible. Here in the U.S. that could…
I missed the launch of STS-118 yesterday due to business travel… But it is great to see the successful and historical launch of the STS-118 Space Shuttle Endeavour. We have liftoff! of the Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-118… The Vehicle Orbiter: OV-105 Endeavour at…
I can’t write much about this topic, because I am on the board of directors for the home owners association that fought this. But I am saying this though: “with perseverance (and as in all legal battles, negotiation), small communities can win against…
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is at Paul Ruppert’s Mobile Point View blog. This thing keeps getting better and better, go check it out. Thanks to Paul for picking up my piece, and choosing it as this week’s Utopic Post! Awesome! ceo
My friend Tom Landspurg, CTO at Webwag, writes in his blog how to create your own mobile widget for the Webwag Widget portal/platform… Tom shows their approach to Widget authoring, their XML for Widgets, and scripting language. All pretty cool. Great foundation to…
From the announcement: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the OpenAjax Alliance are co-sponsoring a Workshop on Mobile Ajax, to take place on 28 September 2007 (the Friday following the AjaxWorld West 2007 conference in Santa Clara) at the Microsoft campus in…
Building a company is no easy task. Building an A+ team is even harder. Building teams from scratch, one that consist of the right kind of folks, with the right vision, and passion, with the right personality, and expertise, one that serves as…
I am a fan of motion-detection, or measuring the movement in space over time, as a trigger for computing, and as new method of interaction for mobile applications – some uses include gestures. There are two approaches to detect motion. The first one…
The NFC Forum has mandated that the four tag types be operable with NFC devices. The NFC Data Exchange Format (NDEF) specification and four Record Type Description (RTD) specifications were released in 2006. These specifications are also available for download at www.nfc-forum.org/specs. The…
Jyri Engeström’s presentation at Mobile Monday Amsterdam, touches on a number of interesting points including the importance of having well defined social objects (which maps to “purpose” or “goal”), and related verbs or actions — in other words, well defined social objects or…