January 29, 2008

Two things I have learnt about the Irish

1) They seem to love politics, and 2) throw great parties

TechLudd this week exhibited the best of the latter and the worst of the former.

Whether or not you think it’s fair to veto events that others are working hard to put on, far more impressive was the bar brawl that followed, weeks before the thing had even taken place.

And – in a brilliant piece of politik and self-promotion – the critics manage to take credit for the changes that were made to result in the resounding success.

So I am about to slag off next week’s MobileMonday. I think I can then take credit for it being a great event.

(Which is my way of saying “see you there”…)

January 10, 2008

“How to care for and feed your CTO”

This doing the rounds (thanks to ceo), which of course makes me wonder what type I am.

Well, my golf is certainly not up to scratch, so I think I’ll plump for a blend of the first and second.

I think it’s phrases like “neither nocturnal nor diurnal”, “temporally ambiguous”, ”drawn towards alpha software like a moth to a flame”, and “prototypes that they quietly whip up and surprise the company with” that seem to ring true with my life.

Oh and a “whiteboard deathmatch” sounds like fun.

Er. Guilty.

January 7, 2008

Predictions for 2008, yawn. Must look further.

It must be time for more obvious punditry from the augursphere.

“2008 will be the year of mobile data, flat rates, Apple & Google phones, mobile advertising… blah blah blah”

No kidding.

Me? I just got back from holiday and I’m chilled in a rum punch sort of way. So no frantic soothsaying from me. But I had one interesting prefiction for a few years out.

Can you imagine a day when Google Maps for Mobile becomes their primary search interface?

(Oh. Don’t forget you heard it here first :-) )

December 19, 2007

The Ultimate Social Network. Step 1.

Having often claimed that (mobile) telephone networks are already the ultimate social network, I’m trying a little experiment.

http://447867554666.mobi/

Having a personal page tied to my mobile number seems like a good way of eternally tagging myself.

So this page sort of acts as a mobile business-card / vCard / shared-items / presence / personal dashboard.

(I currently pull in RSS feeds and my Jaiku presence to give you the idea)

But imagine if… browsers had access to contact lists, and contact applications could launch browsers… now that’s interesting. I could even see operators providing such sites to discourage churn.

Ha ha! Maybe just a bit of fun. But if not, you saw it here first :-)

December 5, 2007

.mobi auctions: Music, Games, Sports, WTF?

Results in from the latest domain auction at Sedo:

1. music.mobi – $616,000
2. games.mobi – $401,500
3. sports.mobi – $101,000

Very exciting. This proves that there’s significant economic heat building up in the mobile web. A medium starting grow up.

It’s a shame that some people will undoubtedly whinge about the fact that this is pretty amazing income for something as simple as a domain name.

But most importantly to me, and, I hope, to the entire mobile community, is the fact that this is helping fund all the other stuff we do. It certainly doesn’t feel like money for nothing.

Ever wondered who pays for the essential dev.mobi, ready.mobi and …Device Atlas? Answer: the bidders in these auctions. And we’ll continue to do our best to make the community benefit from it.

(and PS: yes, we will be making sure these winning sites are .mobi compliant)

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