links for 2007-10-13
October 13, 2007 | Comments-
"This on-line service enables developers to remotely test on 2007 phones that are not yet commercially available, maximizing the valuable time window to perfect applications ready for the market launch of a new phone."
links for 2007-10-11
October 11, 2007 | Comments-
"Google is now ... pitched not against Apple, but rather existing mobile OSs such as Symbian or Microsoft's Windows Mobile". Well yes;if you're going to take market share from anyone, take it from companies which actually have some...
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"after the release of the JesusPhone, we are seeing a different phenomenon, where, well, the regular folk or wide-eyed virgins climb on the mobile train, with consequences varying from the hilarious to the catastrophic"
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"Three quarters of RAZR users would not buy another Motorola handset because they are difficult to use... Motorola has responded by saying that its recently released KRZR handsets feature five improvements to the user interface". FIVE???
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"brightoncisco" AAAARGH! Otherwise looks like a fun month :)
Scratched out thoughts
October 10, 2007 | CommentsA collection of thoughts and notes from PICNIC which I've just found on my phone:
- Connecting disparate entirely public sources of information can create privacy concerns (what happens when you can match photos of the inside of my house with photos of the outside?)
- How long is it before Disney starts suing eidetics?
- Status is a driver for all sorts of things (including group learning): don't underestimate the Importance of Impressing Gurls;
- Location based games have high infrastructure costs - very much a problem we're tackling with LocoMatrix: let us take on the infrastructure and leave game developers to come up with fun formats;
- Linking real world data to games is fun. We want to wire up sharks :)
- You can encourage a closer relationship with what's geographically around you by tying location in with data - e.g. emotion maps as a route to political engagement, or RFID to relate to cities;
links for 2007-10-10
October 10, 2007 | Comments-
"the larger the world population becomes the more loneliness there seems to be."
SNAP
October 09, 2007 | CommentsInteresting titbit from a talk by Anton Gauffin of GameLion: SNAP games can be ported to handsets from non-Nokia manufacturers. There's no Nokia-specific stuff in there (though I'd like to know if this is something that will continue into the future). Update: just asked, and yep, it's a standard that's going to be kept across handsets from different manufacturers.