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Marc says: Point at or Store – we don’t care
Marc has been a leader in the thinking around Digital Lifestyle Aggregators, the portals, personal home pages, aggregators, and what-not that bring various data or media channels together into one coherent experience.
It’s a pet idea for me, since I think DLA’s are the way to go to provide a great mobile Web experience.
A short while back, Marc had a reply to a comment regarding the difference between storing data or just pointing to data. This is relevant (and I stretch the thread a bit here) to the mobile world since storage is limited and going online is never the best thing to do, so it’s never a clear-cut case whether to locally store or to store on a server or to just point to the original somewhere out there.
To his credit, Marc reiterates that the location of data or user info (relevant morsels a DLA aggregates) is not the necessarily the point, but the ability to bring it all together is. And, to pass his insight through my mental filters, it maybe better for the service that brings these morsels together to hold some local info about the user to provide the best user experience via profiles, storage, and interactivity.
Indeed.
Geez, Marc, we are so of one mind here.
Link: Marc’s Voice � Blog Archive � Point at or Store – we don’t care.
Please don’t confuse the fact that we CAN store media, empower you to blog with structured blogging or provide you easy ways to move your data IN; but we can also provide you ways to move your data OUT – to anywhere you wanna be, post to, make friends with or in some other way “exist in cyberspace”.
At the Bio Rex, Helsinki for the Aula 2006 Movement
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Sittin’ in back, natch.
On Stephanie Rieger
I met Stephanie first at Les Blogs. Very interesting stuff, but we never had a chance to talk. Then she showed up at the MoMo Global Summit (representing the Vancouver chapter) and we were able to have a long chat over dinner.
Stephanie and her husband are creating some really cool mobile education apps. A combination of cool design and relevant content packaged in a neat little app.
Here is a great article covering a few of her apps. It’s a great read. Oh, and go check out her stuff!
Link: mopocket.
I want to talk with you today about a little Canadian company doing big mobile things that I discovered during last months Mobile Monday Global Summit in Helsinki, Finland. Yiibu is a small team of creative types with one obsession—creating unique and engaging content for emerging mobile technologies and devices. But that explanation does not even merely come close to their creative skill and the powerful aspect of mobile medium that they have tapped. When Stephanie Rieger (cofounder and head of content strategy and design) first showed me some of the Flash Light Symbian Series 60 based content that Yiibu has designed I immediately fell in love with it.
Way way way off-topic: Brasil 1×0 Croatia
A wee tid-bit: I’m half-Brasilian and grew up in Brasil. Natch, football* is a passion (my daughter and son play it). As fates would have it, I married an amazing footballer who shares my love of the game.
This month I pulled out the TV from storage to watch the Cup (as I do every 4 years).
What’s this got to do with the Mobile Lifestyle? Uh, nothing really. So, here’s a mobile plug:
I’ve been following the matches I can’t watch with Yahoo’s FIFA World Cup mobile portal.
Hmmm, maybe a review is in order.
*Football? Yes, I might be an American, but I grew up calling it football and now I live in Europe. Football is a game you play with your feet, not with tons of padding and a helmet and a ball nestled in your arms. 😛
Check out Widsets’ smooth mobile-friendly service sigh-up
One thing I want to point out about Widsets is the sign-up process. There are at least two ways I have used.
Push message:
– You sign up with your mobile number.
– The services sends you a push SMS.
– Click on the link in the message.
– Download the app.
Mobile site:
– Just go to get.widsets.com (easy to remember) with your mobile browser.
– Sign in with your Widsets username and password.
– Download the app.
Have either of these methods worked for you? What do you think of services that let you sign up this way? Are there services you wished were like this – integrating sign-up in this mobile-savvy way?
If I recall, ShoZu does a good job with sign-up, too. The common thread between the two services is that they come from companies with a deep understanding of the mobile lifestyle.
OK, so there are other mobile-friendly aspects that I wish Widsets had (a topic for another day). But because sign-up is so crucial for service take-up, I think these guys have done a good job.
Where I’d like to be: Aula 2006 – Movement
Looking to attend at least the first day and then some.
Lots of folks I know and would like to get an update from. Great topic, too.
Pity, I only found about it today. But, as luck would have it (sort of), my schedule is open.
Link: zengestrom.com: Aula 2006 – Movement.
Marko Ahtisaari and I are organizing the Aula 2006 – Movement event in Helsinki next week. This will be the largest Aula event yet, and we’ve moved it to a larger venue at Bio Rex to accommodate as many participants as we can.
The theme ‘movement’ points to mobility meeting web 2.0, technologies as social movements, and the overlapping between physical and virtual worlds. On a personal level movement is about not staying still but taking action to shape the future.
First ad-supported Symbian software?
One more cool product has now lost all value and become a free product.
And they expect 10 million s60 users in 18 months – about 1 in 10 of all s60 users. Eh, I don’t think so, but it must be the figure the product manager fooled his boss with. And what is the expected revenue per user? Is this a move that validates the difficulty (impossibility) of building a business on software sales? Or, do they expect to actually make more money this way?
Best of luck dudes.
Link [via Stephen, via Tommi]: WorldMate Free Edition – First Ad Supported Symbian Software.
This is the first piece of ad supported software (also known as adware) to be made available for the Symbian platform. Symbian developers are finding application distribution and marketting to be the most difficult issue to face in the application development cycle. MobiMate is clearly looking to innovate in this area and gain a wider market share for its best selling product. MobiMate will then be able to use this customer base both as a revenue source (mobile advertising), but also for marketing base. It is likely they will offer pay-for updates (with a greater level of functionality) as well as cross selling other applications.
From the Boston Globe: Jack the cat proves his mettle by chasing black bear up tree
Link: Jack the cat proves his mettle by chasing black bear up tree – Boston.com.
WEST MILFORD, N.J. (AP) — A black bear picked the wrong New Jersey yard for a jaunt earlier this week, running into a territorial tabby who ran the furry beast up a tree — twice.