A WiFi mesh network for the Haj
There is something absolutely exotic about this set-up. Maybe it’s the medieval setting, maybe it’s the history of the Hajj, or maybe it’s bec...
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Among other random news, Six Apart spins off Livejournal
I was in California this week and stopped by, as usual, to say hello at Six Apart. Lots of things have happened since I last saw them, some that I knew already,...
Anyone have social graphs from Twitter?
I would love to see the stats on the numbers of direct, @, and general twits mapped against the total followed and followers per Twitter user. I think the tight...
Book by Craig Venter – A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life
Well, I was wondering when someone would write a book about Venter (who deserves a Nobel, a few times over). Turns out he wrote one himself. I think I gotta get...
Stephen Johnston in Vodafone Receiver #19 on: Thoughts on 3.0 – this time with added You-nicorn
Stephen Johnston has contributed an article to Vodafone’s Receiver mag (see link below). Cool (way to go, Stephen). He pegs the current discussion around ...
mTrends on Dopplr going mobile
Rudy, over at mTrends is breaking the story that Dopplr will launch a mobile version tomorrow. Good for them. It’s been really nice to see Dopplr slowly g...
A new mobile site creator
Got a note from David Berube about his new MoFuse. He’s based in Rhode Island, of all places, not known to be a hot-bed of mobile dev work. That it’...
TinyURL should be mobile-savvy
As far as I can tell, TinyURL is not mobile savvy. I get a ton of TinyURLs now via Twitter over SMS and click them most of the time. I am fortunate to have a mo...
Do community tools mix with scientific papers?
I’ve been doing some reading on Open Access Publishing, providing free public access to scientific papers. The two publishers I know the best are Public L...
Mowser get me thinking of emerging markets again
Previously, I mentioned Mowser, the mobile-savvy transcoder by Russ Beattie. It’s really cool that he has so much traffic. But, it’s even cooler to ...