Beckham playing in the U.S.

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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… or that some of us consider, and it has to do not … Read more

Google owns you (and me too)

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“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), what email we exchange (Google Mail), what events we might have (Google … Read more

The next big thing is Touch

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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 about your surroundings. Touch for exchanging information. Touch for associating (connecting) the … Read more

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

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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 this? By this I mean, about rich (or thick) mobile clients leveraging … Read more

Carnival of the Mobilists #82

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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 time that I hosted a Carnival of the Mobilists, and it is … Read more

Russell is back blogging

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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! ceo

Mobility Weblog is back…

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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 figure that one out! — in short, the hosting environment was not … Read more