User-generated content: " Basically users can register content they create by sending it to a special short code where it gets tagged, then can pass it on to their friends. Carriers can then keep track of how many times it gets forwarded, presumably building in some sort of reward system where people that create compelling content get rewarded if it gets passed around."

I think I've worked out what bothers me about the phrase "user-generated content": it's been championed by the proponents of "content is king", when actually what "user-generated content" is is all the stuff that these proponents don't own: it's communication on a personal level.

So these guys are redefining personal communication to be something that's part of their business, something that they own. Yuck. Or am I just being paranoid?

MVC is the new black: "In the Web 2.0 apps that really Get It, they have a database backend, a web frontend and - crucially - some kind of web services API in between. Flickr is a great example of this kind of architecture - almost everything you can do through the Flickr website can be done programmatically through a desktop application."

What's that Mark Twain quote? "The ancients have stolen all our best ideas"

Slight touch of professional jealousy here - the ITV Mobizines service looks gorgeous. On my 6680 it installs Flash and a lovely-looking Flash movie which updates content over time; on other handsets it's a Java app and there's a supporting WAP site too.

How well has Series 60 done as a licensed platform? "The SX1 isn’t actively sold any more and is shown as discontinued on some online stores. It wasn’t ever followed by an updated model and I guess Siemens lost its way due the competition from Nokia’s own Series 60 phones."

When Nokia first kicked off S60 as a brand, there was a lot of noise about other handset vendors licensing the platform and building their own Series 60 devices. They say they've launched 26 Series 60 handsets - are licensees still stepping up to use the platform?

Time to brush up my public speaking - I'm going to be at a couple of events in November.

On the 11th, here in sunny Brighton, I'm going to be at dConstruct 2005 blathering on about the mobile web, shouting at all these terribly fashionable Web 2.0 types that they're looking in the wrong direction and the humble mobile shall be pissing on their chips over the next few years.

Presuming I make it out of there alive, the next week I'm at World Telemedia in Amsterdam to present a case study on the work we've been doing for Puzzler Media: how you launch a portfolio of casual games in the national press, priced well below any other mobile game offering in the UK, and what you learn when you do this.