Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
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 purpose is what makes a social product succeed (or fail). I believe … Read more
A new startup company in Austin Texas, eZee inc. (http://www.eZee.com) is looking to fill permanent positions with experienced server developers, mobile developers, quality assurance engineers, and product owners, to help create the next generation of mobile commerce and payment software products and services. If you have the experience, and the passion for mobile technologies, and … Read more
The Future of Mobile, organized by Ryan Carson and his group, has been announced for Nov 14 in London. A great speaker line up, including Dan, Brian, Chetan, Andrea, Luca, and others. It is going to be a great event. I wish I could attend, but timing is not good for me…. maybe next time. … Read more
While the majority of us use emoticons to express emotions while typing computer messages, others use HTTP return codes… Yes, that is a Facebook group I encountered, which promotes the use of HTTP return codes as a “better emoticon”. From the group’s description: HTTP return codes are a powerful way of expressing your inner emotions … Read more
The W3C has released the XHTML Basic 1.1 as a Candidate Recommendation. With it, Dominique has published a useful cheat sheet — the XHTML Basic 1.1 Elements and Attributes reference. From the XHTML Basic 1.1 spec: This revision, 1.1, supercedes version 1.0. In this new revision, several new features have been incorporated into the language … Read more
Below are a number of good resources by the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA): PRIMER, INTROS, ETC. Ø Understanding Mobile Marketing: Technology & Reach*http://www.mmaglobal.com/uploads/MMAMobileMarketing102.pdf Ø Introduction to Mobile Search*http://www.mmaglobal.com/uploads/MMAMobileSearchIntro.pdf Ø Short Code Primer*http://www.mmaglobal.com/shortcodeprimer.pdf GUIDELINES Ø Consumer Best Practices*http://www.mmaglobal.com/bestpractices.pdf (Recently updated on July 16, 2007 to include guidelines for marketing to children under the age of 13, … Read more
Update 8/6: Experiment has been completed. Chat room has been closed… Update 8/1: Russ has closed his Lingr chat room. I am going to continue experimenting with Lingr, as in my case I see it as a public interaction channel for when I am online (vs. a forum or a Twitter/Jaiku, or for offline interactions)… … Read more
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists #84 is at Mobile Messaging 2.0, and written by Debi Jones (of MobileJones.com) … Topics this week include SMS, MoSoSo, the iPhone, Mobile Web, Nokia handsets, Carriers/Operators, Mobile Industry, and International Travel; a great read. Thanks to Debi for including my piece The Elements of the Mobile Context, which … Read more
With this new $20M, it totals $65 million in VC funding since it was founded in 2000. Action Engine is one of the promoters of On-Device Portals (ODP). ODP is a fancy name for an end-to-end mobile application (client on the handset, and services on the Internet) that provides access to information, typically using a … Read more
After watching the iPhone TV commercial for the millionth time, I decided to try to find the YouTube video of the dog riding the skateboard… While I am not sure that I found the exact same video as on the TV commercial, I definitely found the right dog! It truly is a pretty cool video … Read more