Zi makes progress with Qix: "Virgin Mobile reported a 33 percent increase in ARPU from devices equipped with Qix"

The last time I heard about a rise in ARPU that significant in relation to handset UI was in 1999/2000, when I remember being told that Nokia users generated 2x the text messaging traffic of other device owners... I guess it's (sadly) rare to see such an overt and documented link between decent UI and revenue.

Mobile Web Kerfuffle: "Thematic consistency does not mean you have to have the same page displayed across different devices -- it allows for different user experience across different devices but asserts that the same URI when viewed on different devices should provide thematically similar results"

Sounds great, tho I hope we don't need a watertight definition of "thematic consistency" to work with this :)

Joh is setting up one of these: "A Coding Dojo is a coding session centered around a programming challenge. The challenge is small in scope and often patterned after pragmatic Dave Thomas' idea of Coding Kata."

Future Platforms is providing a location and resources for the event - wiki here. If you're local and can make it along, do sign up...

Between Blinks & Buttons: "...a camera that will capture a moment at the press of a button. However, unlike a conventional analog or digital camera, this one doesn't have any optical parts. It allows you to capture your moment but in doing so, it effectively seperates it from the subject. Instead, as you will memorize the moment, the camera memorizes only the time and starts to continuously search on the net for other photos that have been taken in the very same moment.
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Amazon web services write a book: "An emerging project, YRUHRN, is creating the first book designed, written, edited, marketed, and published using the wisdom of crowds involving over 1,000 people.  YRUHRN is based on hundreds of people answering the question, “Why Are You Here – Right Now” via the Amazon service, Mechanical Turk."