Monthly Archives: January 2006

What Am I Missing About Bluepulse?

Oliver seems to be really into Bluepulse. After I saw the posting at MobileCrunch I signed up for a Bluepulse developer kit. I’m one of those propeller-headed folks, being of the general mind that knowing how things work out under … Continue reading

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More Mobile Advertising

Carlo has a great follow on to the recent discussion about mobile advertising: For instance, there’s a “channel” on the service from Adult Swim that has a bunch of short video clips, and Sprint charges $4 per month to access … Continue reading

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Beyond Locative Media

Interesting essay over at Network Publics titled Beyond Locative Media: In contrast, Sterling provides us with a darker, more idiosyncratic vision. Humans don’t control Sterling’s world of Spimes. On the contrary, it is an unruly object world in which people … Continue reading

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Google Talk Opens Federation

I’ve posted about Google Talk before, and bitched about them having federation off somewhere else. Now they’ve turned on federation, which I just verified with a chat between my gmail.com account and the server I have at bitsplitter.net. It even … Continue reading

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AdMob

Speaking of mobile advertising, Omar from fotochatter just posted to the Mobile Monday SV Yahoo group announcing AdMob. It’s a pay per click advertising service focused on mobile sites, with targeting specific to mobile clients. Here’s a bit from their … Continue reading

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Mobile Ads

Phonescoop posted about a few carriers trying out advertising, seemingly as an opt in feature and delivered as video. I’m actually all in favor of advertising supported services on the mobile end. Contextual advertising has brought online advertising in general … Continue reading

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YubNub Mobile

There’s a great post over at MobileCrunch about a mobile interface for YubNub. YubNub is a pretty interesting application, I fooled around with the standard version for a while when I heard that Jon was doing some work for Ning. … Continue reading

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Mobile Computing Systems vs. Service Endpoints

Although of course the lines get more and more blurry all the time, there are two main classes of devices in terms of mobile solutions. I was thinking about this the other day as I was moving around the slew … Continue reading

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Yahoo Go Just Not Doing It

I’ve had Yahoo! Go on my phone for a while now, trying it out for syncing my address book and calendar in particular. But I’ve been having a bunch of trouble with it. Today it’s refusing to sync a calendar … Continue reading

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January Symbian Programming SIG

The topic for the January meeting of the Symbian Programming SIG is “Sockets and Active Objects”. Here’s the essential info from John Kern’s blog: What: Symbian Programming SIG meeting (Topic: Sockets and Active Objects) When: January 31st, 7PM Where: Mozilla … Continue reading

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