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...
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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 ...
It always take two failures to make a real problem
A CEO (who has now moved on to greater things) of a large and popular Web service once was relating to me a tale of one of his major embarrassing outages and me...
Google’s Social Design Best Practices – comments from Bokardo
I was following a thread of interesting thoughts and stumbled upon this article from Bokardo that comments on a list of Best Practices that Google put up as par...
Mowser
Things have been improving here and I seem to be returning to my ‘studies’ of where we are all going (that’s my real love and as I shed the bu...
Twitter SMS quotas
Got the following message from Twitter the other day: “You have 10 incoming sms updates remaining this week. Try receiving unlimited updates at m.twitter....
WidSets has undergone a big facelift and is no longer in beta
I was visiting WidSets, since I heard they had a Twitter wid.* I _had_ to go to the main site, since the mobile site kept sending me a noob packet and there was...
Russ makes some great comments about that Nokia N95 and S60
Spot on, Russ. Read this, folks. Link: RussellBeattie.com – Some Nokia N95 and S60 Thoughts: The thing which makes me crazy though, is this isn’t an...
<insert noun> Platform: Google makes one more serious step into the mobile world (and a few historical notes)
It’s about time. I had a one-to-one with Andy Rubin two years ago. If you know Andy and his background (the Danger Hip-top), it was clear what Google want...