A few changes from my side
I’m leaving the Ovi team and shifting to the new Social Media relations group in Markets, Communications. The official start date has not been set since I...
Category: Innovation
Book by Craig Venter – A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life
Well, I was wondering when someone would write a book about Venter (who deserves a Nobel, a few times over). Turns out he wrote one himself. I think I gotta get...
A new mobile site creator
Got a note from David Berube about his new MoFuse. He’s based in Rhode Island, of all places, not known to be a hot-bed of mobile dev work. That it’...
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...
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 ...
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...
<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...
Kids and phones and IM and SMS
A colleague was mentioning how his (American) daughters were getting all caught up with Webkinz: “Webkinz pets are lovable plush pets that each come with ...
Some advice I received regarding embedding features into a device
One thing we struggle with, even with the access to the phone programs that we have, is the different time scales for phone, PC software, and Web development. T...