The mobilists group on LinkedIn now has over 1500+ members and is about to get a lot more interesting after LinkedIn turn on the discussion forum feature at the end of this week.
Currently the group is a good way to find other mobilists and to make direct contact without the need for an introduction. The […]

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I spoke today with the brainiac behind O2 Litmus, which is O2’s latest foray into the world of developer communities. I’m sure many of you will remember the Source O2 days and its successor.
O2 Litmus promises to be different. It’s still mostly in stealth mode with a very low-key sign-up page. I guess we can’t […]

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Understanding cellular data networks on iPhone 3G is an interesting read on Apple’s website. It tries to answer a lot of the questions that user’s have been asking about those pesky ’signal strength’ bars on the top of the display, similar to ones at the top of this blog. It’s amusing how those innocent little […]

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THIS POSTING IS INCOMPLETE - I hit publish instead of save. You can read on, if you like. Why not? Blogging at the speed of thought I guess. Read it as I write it. Should be finished soon. (Now 95% done.)
A posting on Business of Software blog caught my attention. It likens the process of […]

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Last week I held a 3-day course - Mobile Internet 2.0 - for a UK operator. It is loosely based on my latest book, but goes well beyond that, mostly to include a more general discussion of all the kinds of Web 2.0 architectures and solutions that can be utilised for building mobile services, both […]

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My favourite UX guru, Barbara Ballard, wrote some useful comments on my recent ‘thinking about the mobile experience‘ post. I am grateful for her feedback and drawing my attention to the use of personas in the product design process.
I have all kind of reservations about the effective use of personas, but, like all these things, […]

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Influenced by David Armano’s original posting about user experience building blocks, I re-drew an earlier slide about the mobile experience ‘narrative’ to create a more in-depth diagram in the ‘Armano signature style.’
If you design mobile services, you will often find yourself in the ‘ideation’ stage of the process, which is somewhere between bright-spark moment, […]

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These links are automatically posted daily from Magnolia, where I store all my Mobile 2.0 bookmarks.
Loki - You Can Get There From Here

Loki - interesting LBS solution and API, powered by Skyhook.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tags: mobile 2.0, mobile internet, location, paulgolding
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These links are automatically posted daily from Magnolia, where I store all my Mobile 2.0 bookmarks.
iPhone web app performance

The Exceptional Performance group at Yahoo! just released a detailed performance analysis of web applications on the iPhone. Yahoo! analyzed the full capabilities of the iPhone’s Safari browser including browser cache and transfer speeds. The iPhone cache […]

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Very interesting open source project to allow iPhone web apps to run as embedded apps with webkit and gain access to native APIs via Javascript. Another step in the evolution towards Rich Mobile Applications.

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Just having fun. Check these out - or build your own - great for slides!

You can cut and paste the word list that I used, add to it, extend, subtract, but please let me see your results (add comment below)!
Here’s the list to get you going…
xhtml, jpeg, mobile payment, mobile 2.0, JXTA, OMTP, OMA, J2EE, […]

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Thanks to Navid Hashmi for showing me Wordle, which processed my recent blog postings to come up with the following word-map. I thought that it summarised my current blog postings quite well and, given the recent topics, probably most of life too! I know, it’s sad isn’t it. Try it yourself.

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