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

Beckham playing in the U.S.

So Beckham is playing for the Los Angeles Galaxy MLS team… Having Beckham playing in the U.S. is a good thing. Yes, he not in his 20s anymore, or he might be recuperating from injuries, but there is an important angle to consider……

Google owns you (and me too)

“Given Google’s overwhelming popularity, chances are that most consumers are going to put their privacy on the line. “ In what way do they own us? What we search (Google Search), what we chat (Google Talk), what directions we look for (Google Maps),…

The next big thing is Touch

The next big thing is Touch. Touch is the next Click! NFC will enable for a new breed of Touch-based applications, effectively adding a new dimension to mobility and the meaning of click-through. Touch for payments, using your mobile handset. Touch for learning…

Local-apps as a mashup of media-rich services, or, taking a million non-media rich services, and making them media-rich…

On his blog Mike Rowehl wrote Growing and Managing Off-Portal Communities, where he quotes Dave Harper: “If it doesn’t work on 1 billion phones, don’t bother with it. No rich media experience, all through the browser.” Interesting thought it is… What if flip…

Carnival of the Mobilists #82

Now that I am (almost) done with my move to WordPress, I’m ready to host the Carnival of the Mobilists #82… Woohoo! My apologies for the delay (and for not including an entry this week)… It has been a while since the last…

Russell is back blogging

Now that I am almost done setting up my new weblog (I’ve been offline for more than a week), and finally got some time to surf around to catch up, I noticed that Russell Beattie is back at blogging… Awesome. Welcome back Russ!…

Mobility Weblog is back…

I made it! I have moved to WordPress! Well, almost. Once I was able to solve the version incompatibility issues (i.e. OLD_PASSWORD) between the installed MySQL client and server (v4.1), the install was truly a breeze. But man, it was a pain to…

Still working on the move to WordPress… and need help specifying alternte port for MySQL

Hello all. My apologies for taking so long to return to blogging… it has been hard to find the time to make the move to WordPress; which BTW it seems keeping support to old permalinks will take some time, and I will do…

Mobility Weblog will pause – this is the last entry until I move to new blog software

Please note that my blog will pause now — this is my last post until I move to the new blog software… I'll do everything possible to preserve previous blog entries as well as the comments — but note that “things might go…

Moving to new weblog software – need advise

For a while my blog, which is powered by Blojsom, has been having serious, terrible, performance issues… So it is time for me to move on… to WordPress or MovableType? Which one do you recommend (and why)? And what to do with my…