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Mobile

• Data, Design, Mobile

  In India for many mobile data is the only way

  04.16.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This piece in BusinessWeek does a great job at bringing to light the huge discrepancy between how the concept of “mobile” is so vastly different here in the US than it is in developing markets like India. This has come up a lot recently at work and I think it provides really valuable perspective when […]

• Mobile, Thoughts

  Amazon’s TextBuyIt: all you need to know

  04.02.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  One would think that the last thing I need from Amazon is another way to make buying things even easier (Amazon Prime, I love you) but they’ve found one: let me buy stuff via SMS!
  The best description of the feature I read today comes via CrunchGear:
  Need something immediately? Want to check on a price? Text […]

• Gadgets, Locative, Mobile, Social, Thoughts

  When will mobile social apps finally take off?

  03.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Throughout our dodgeball experience we always felt confident that someone was going to execute Mobile Social Software in a way that gave it mass appeal, whether it was us or someone else, we felt passionately that there was a niche to be filled there.
  I still feel that way but I have to say […]

• Design, Mobile, Reading List, Thoughts

  Adam Greenfield to be Nokia’s new Head of Design Direction

  03.21.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Adam Greenfield, author of the seminal book Everyware: The Dawning of Ubiquitous Computing has accepted a position at Nokia as “Head of Design Direction, with a remit for the service and user interface domain.”
  As someone who’s enjoyed Adam’s work for a long time, I’m genuinely anxious to see what he can do to push things […]

• Gadgets, Mobile, Thoughts

  Using phones for phonecalls is “Booooorrrring!”

  03.17.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  …or so say a group of British children who were recently polled:
  Their survey also asked whether the students had video, music or photos on their phones, and four out of five said they had all three. When I asked a group of them what they wanted from a phone they had plenty of demands: “Multimedia, […]

• Locative, Mobile, Social, Thoughts

  NextWall: Interactive street art as clever marketing and promotion

  03.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  A new media agency in Hamburg called Jung von Matt/next built this slick interactive graffiti wall called NextWall to show how a variety of technologies can be used creatively in public spaces for promotion.
  What I really like about this is that its not an old-world, purely promotional (one way) play. Not only do they provide […]

• Customer Service, Design, Gold Star, Interface, Mobile, Thoughts

  iPhone + Starbucks: now with movement

  03.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Remember those super slick mockups from a while back for what a Starbucks + iPhone integration might look like? Well, follow this link and check out what they might look like in action - its a nice peek into what a well-executed retail app on a phone might look like.
  Big bonus points for a little […]

• Design, Locative, Mobile, Thoughts

  Controversial article on Apple’s big miss with the iPhone: social networking

  03.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt explores an argument by a Swede named Peter S. Magnusson about how he sees a huge missed opportunity for Apple with regards to the iPhone. This goes beyond the run-of-the-mill wishlists (copy and paste, MMS, user-replaceable battery, etc.) that have been bandied about since the launch.
  This particular omission is a new angle and […]

• Mobile, Thoughts

  iPhone SDK - what will it be?

  03.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  As Apple’s SDK announcement draws closer, let the speculation begin… John Gruber of Daring Fireball has a good piece up about the upcoming event and what may or may not be announced.
  Recently I’ve been thinking about what my expectations are but rather than be practical, let me say what I really want them to announce: […]

• Mobile, Thoughts

  Thoughts on “The Death of Mobile Applications?” by Dan Harrelson

  03.02.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Dan Harrelson takes issue with Michael Mace’s much ballyhooed article this week on the death of mobile applications in favor of experiences delivered via the mobile web.
  Harrelson argues:
  Sorry, but it’s simplistic to assume that native mobile apps are now dead in favor of web mobile apps. Mobile is just seeing the same tension […]