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Mobile

• 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 [...]

• Design, Mobile, Process, Thoughts

  Mobile design in a nutshell: “Don’t design for ‘mobile’ - design for mobility”

  03.01.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Peter Merholz of Adaptive Path does a great job distilling all the talk around mobile design down to one concept that, despite its simplicity, often gets overlooked (and overcomplicated).
  People’s inclination is almost always to try and do too much with a mobile experience than their users will ultimately be willing to learn and [...]

• Design, Mobile, Thoughts

  Guess what? Mobile Applications aren’t where its at…

  02.25.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Back in 2004 when Dennis and I were getting dodgeball off the ground we always saw having a downloadable application as somewhat of a Holy Grail - not the Holy Grail mind you, but we thought it was not only pretty cool, but also “important” that we have one.
  Once we found ourselves in a [...]

• Mobile, Thoughts

  SHIFD launches. Will you use it?

  02.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Shifd, a product born from the BBC Hack Day London competition has launched in Beta today. I’m going to play around with it this week but it seems like it might be a decent way to send yourself reminders/todos and have access to them from multiple machines (including your mobile).
  [Shift] sends your content to [...]

• Gold Star, Interface, Mobile

  Socialthing’s launching some great looking updates at SXSW

  02.23.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  …and I’ll be there to give them a test run. Amongst other things, it looks like they might launch some of the features that will let you update various sites from their unified interface:

  As well as a great looking iphone interface:

  The most exciting piece of news to me is the sneak peak at a slick [...]