Strategy

David Harper: Upcoming.org Understands The Value Of “Mobile-Friendly”

Posted on by charlie

Oh my, David. The vision is slowly coming to be. What great news. This is so what we all  have in mind.

I hope other sites soon come knocking at your door.

Link: Different Things � Blog Archive � Upcoming.org Understands The Value Of “Mobile-Friendly”.

Thanks to Andy and Gordon over at Upcoming, WINKsite is now able to go beyond the limits of basic event feed publishing to deliver a more relevant, more precise means of mobile event distribution and device independent delivery.

Reflections

Set Your Watch: Life on Earth to Scale

Posted on by charlie

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Link: Set Your Watch. The Loom: A blog about life, past and future.

This image came out a couple months ago in Nature, but I just came across it today. I quite like the way it sums up the history of life–something that’s maddening hard to do, since the time scales are so vast. It shows how life’s diversity has been accumulating for billions of years. This chart shows the timing of the earliest paeolontological evidence for different kinds of life, ranging from fossils to chemical markers.

The Narrative

Mobhappy on: Palm OS Is Dead, Long Live Linux Palm at MobHappy

Posted on by charlie

I think this officially signals the demise of everything Palm was. I’ve been watching them shoot themselves in the foot over the past few years. It’s been sad to see such a leader basically undo themselves, among many things: buying Handspring and killing it, spinning off the OS group, botching their whole brand recognition. And the Treo has been chugging along despite all that.

But, I think they are running on fumes and momentum (Andrew will flog me for that comment). What a pity, since they had a lock on the handlheld market, not only defining the experience, but understanding what it meant.

Maybe they’ll make a Sony Ericsson-type of recovery.

Link: 3GSM – Palm OS Is Dead, Long Live Linux Palm at MobHappy.

Access this morning announced its Access Linux Platform, or ALP, it’s next-generation mobile OS that will replace Palm OS. They’ve ditched Palm OS 6, saying it won’t ever be used, and sound like they’re even going to ditch the Palm OS name.