How Apple does it: lessons for all of us
Here’s a great article for inspiration from Time (full article courtesy of Time Canada). Sure, it’s a sugar-coated view of what makes Apple’s ...
Category: The Narrative
So, WAP isn’t Crap After All
I remember when I first used a color GPRS phone. My thought was ‘better, faster, color!’. The reality is that with a thicker straw, we shoved more s...
If Car Companies Employed People from Telecoms
A good (and scary) laugh. Link: MobHappy: If Car Companies Employed People from Telecoms. Carlo and I have been kicking around what would happen if a car compan...
Shawn Conahan’s Europe trip report
Shawn Conahan is the CEO of Intercasting Corp, the folks who have brought us Rabble. He really understands the implications of the mobile lifestyle on multimedi...
Sprint changes their band too
Related to an earlier article I wrote on the near suicidal changes in the Palm brand. Now, Sprint has decided to totally revamp their brand after the Nextel acq...
More on Usability Vs. Features
The discussion continues. Here is a nice comment from a simple observation. I definitely think this is so – that’s why geeks put up with crappy inte...
David Harper, of WINKsite, certainly gets it
MoMo Mike was most kind to connect me to fellow New Yorker David Harper. Mike and I had spoken a lot about mobile and the state of mobile in Silicon Valley (too...
MobHappy announcing The Carnival of the Mobilists
These guys are getting clever. Link: MobHappy: Announcing The Carnival of the Mobilists. The Carnival of the Capitalists is something of a blogging institution ...
MobHappy: Encouraging User-Created Content
The key to tapping into the user-created content stream is to help users create and share content. It’s not the content itself that is important nor that ...
Ubicomp: Dissolving into the background through willing suspension of disbelief
Elizabeth Goodman always has these great meeting reports. This one is no exception. In this one, she makes an interesting comment that I haven’t been able...