Some impressive IT numbers (Google)

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Says Martin Reynolds, VP at Gartner: “Google is building out IT infrastructure at a rate that is simply unbelievable. Last year Google spent $2 billion on IT infrastructure and plans to spend $3 billion this year… compared with about $600 million by rivals Yahoo! and Microsoft. This gives Google a foundation for competitive advantage like … Read more

Mobile Advertising, Intrusive, Evil

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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 prompt a Class Action lawsuit against the advertiser, the ad engine provider, … Read more

We have liftoff – Teacher in Space

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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 Launch Pad 39A. The Crew From the left are mission specialists Richard … Read more

Off-topic: Billboard removed after 2-year battle

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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 deep pocket corporations. We did, and we won…” ceo

Creating Mobile Widgets (Webwag)

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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 standardize Widget authoring… From his blog, the clock widget code snippet: (Click … Read more

Call for Participation – Workshop on Mobile Ajax

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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 Mountain View (following an OpenAjax Alliance face-to-face meeting to take place at … Read more

Building a company, building a team

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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 the “baseline” of what is to come, that is the future culture … Read more

The dimension of space and movement in Mobile Applications

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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 is using Gyroscopes to measure changes in orientation or “gyroscopic inertia”. (Image … Read more

NFC Forum issues specifications for four tag types

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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 operation specifications for the NFC Forum tag types, numbered 1-4, provide the … Read more