My 7-year old son recently asked me how to program a computer. He wants to make his own games. I think my wife gave him the idea as an educational alternative to playing them.
There are a variety of solutions available, but we have initially gone for Alice, which is a 3D graphical programming environment […]

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In other words, the experience is different and any attempt to shoehorn regular programming into the mobile form factor will be problematic. Nonetheless, many trials of mobile broadcast TV standards, like DVB-H, have taken this approach.
Of course, there will always be someone who wants to sit and watch a whole episode of The OC on […]

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Here’s a formula: Take a well known and popular Internet service, like YouTube, and offer a cut-down version for mobile. Assume that users will be interested because they’re already huge fans of the well known service. Sit back and watch as the service goes….nowhere.
I haven’t seen the Voda-YouTube offering, so I might be speaking […]

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Dean Bubley is getting excited about putting motion sensors in phones. I think he is right to get excited. If you’ve followed my blog long enough, you will recall various postings on this topic. My favourite idea a while back was to use motion sensors to navigate a web page using a “peep hole” interface. […]

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I have worked with several prospective MVNO projects. What I have found is that often the proposition isn’t strong enough to warrant a fully fledged “operator” relationship with consumers. However, perhaps there is something in the business plan that makes sense as a mobile offering and could potentially make money. There are other would-be “mobile […]

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Oliver Starr writes that Mobile 2.0 isn’t Web 2.0. Oliver mentions the influence of Ajit Jaokar’s attempts to define “Mobile 2.0″, which I discussed in a previous post.
The essence of Web 2.0 is really the evolution from a publishing-centric Web to a services-centric Web. When the Web started out, we went there only to view […]

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In a vain hope of becoming a polymath, I have developed an interest in writing poetry. I find it interesting that I can work in a field so riddled with jargon, yet be so easily put off other subjects, like poetry, because of the jargon. As I have tried to explain on numerous occasions, most […]

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