Google Maps Mobile with GPS
I don’t know when this showed up, but we were expecting it. Hoo-boy, this sure changes the whole map and local search game. Now to download it and play wi...
Category: The Narrative
If TypePad has Vox, what will Digg have?
A quick thought. I keep seeing the Web getting away from mass folksonomy type apps, or apps that are openly community driven. I see more interest in what some a...
Emotional attachment to technology and catalyst apps
Another day. Another discovered note. I heard Nick Jones from Gartner give a talk a while back. One thing he said regarding emerging markets that stuck with me ...
Engadget reports that over 200 million Nokia 1100s have been sold
I’ve written about this phone before – when it was picked as the billionth phone Nokia sold (in Nigeria), when Nokia announced that they had sold 10...
Shozu, and being done when there’s nothing left to remove
More from my long notes tail. For a while I wanted to write a long article on Cognima. Who? The guys who brought us Shozu, that’s who. Cognima had a reall...
A Mobile Lifestyle Manifesto – help add to it
One other note I want to clear out is a Mobile Lifestyle Manifesto I fancied writing. I kinda never finished it, though its been kicking around for a very long ...
‘Operators are not enemies. They are irrelevant.’
I was going through my old notes and stumbled upon a comment from a really clever guy from a UK analyst house (who shall remain anonymous). He had given an amaz...
Cool! Nokia launches a bunch of phones for emerging markets.
This is exciting. Seven, yes 7!, new phones for the emerging markets (you know I love emerging market stuff). And these don’t look like cheap phones, but ...
Christian Lindholm on: The Software Transformer – A Vision for a mobile OS
Christian posted yesterday a nice essay about mobile and multi-modal interfaces (link below). He had given me a preview of it when I saw him last week and IR...
Loïc laughs – Will you be able to stop yourself going to LeWeb3 in 2007 ?
While I am leery of the trend that the event keeps getting bigger and bigger, I think I’ll end up going, because I’ve always had fun at them (also, ...