Any RoR developer interested in working on an exciting Mobile 2.0 project, please leave a comment (I will pick it up privately in moderation) and I will put you in touch. Company is looking for RoR developer familiar with ‘Getting Real‘ approach to Rails projects, interested in iPhone, Twitter and mobile mash-ups. This is early [...]

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Thanks Ajit for the favourable review of my latest book edition. I’m glad that you still like it.

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Search is still the key to accessing Web content and applications. By search, I don’t just mean typing a word in Google to find a list of pages. I include the page hopping to find what you’re looking for, the filtering of information and other cognitive processes to arrive at the final result. This takes [...]

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We think of our mobile phones as mobile phones. This is the overwhelming experience for most users. With the iPhone, we are on the cusp of entering a new phase in mobile device evolution, just one of many mobile futures distinct from a single mobile past.
I tried to cover this kind of development when I [...]

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The mobilists group on LinkedIn now has 588 601 846 1,034 1,127 1,178 members and is growing all the time. It is a useful group to join if you want to connect directly with other mobilists, including finding out who’s out there doing what. A few years ago, it was almost possible to name [...]

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I see that the iPhone 3G has created yet another round of LBS speculation from various commentators, including Ajit Jaokar, Tomi Ahonen and Om Malik. Interestingly, this is how Ajit and I first met when he came to me with an LBS idea and I did some feasibility consulting (remember that one Ajit?)
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I was part of a roundtable discussion at Mobile Web Summit during which we discussed the mobile device fragmentation problem. For mobile application developers, fragmentation is a huge pain in the backside. Simply put, there are too many variants of device to program for. This means that programming for a large number of users across [...]

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I love my iPhone - one of my best gadgets ever. However, when riding the train along Brunel’s line from Swindon to Paddington, I’m lucky to get Edge coverage (fingers crossed for 3G). That’s when my other great gadget saves the day - the broadband modem from 3 UK - fantastic coverage all the way [...]

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For me, the most interesting part of the Apple announcement is the MobileMe service. Some existing dot Mac users have been expecting a significant movement towards ‘the cloud’ for some time. This is a great first step, especially if you have multiple Macs and an iPhone. It is also close to my heart. I spent [...]

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So-called folksonomies present a huge problem, which is meaningfulness. For example, if I type ‘female’ in Flickr’s search box, I’m not expecting what I get, which is a page of female sparrows, blue tits and other bird-lover delights. Although, I see today that it is topped by ‘female genital mutilation,’ bearing in mind that the [...]

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In recent posts I have talked about the importance of understanding the user experience. The difference between understanding the experience versus a more conventional use-case-like view is deceptively subtle. For those, including myself, trained in thinking about use cases and functional requirements, then it can be very difficult indeed to figure out what user experience [...]

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