Monthly Archives: February 2008

Mobile Mammals

James Pearce blogged the notes he had for the Mobile Monday peer awards and they made me really sad I wasn’t out there for the event. James always has great things to say, and he’s always so action oriented it … Continue reading

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Mobile Search as a Web Service

I was poking around a bit today with identifying mobile search traffic. I dumped a few million records out of the Mowser traffic DB and parsed through the referer URLs to pull out keyword info from searches that land on … Continue reading

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Native GCC on the N810

I started out trying to install the rtcomm update that gives all kinds of new protocol support to the built in messaging app. I was having install problems even with red pill mode on. Then when poking around in the … Continue reading

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Getting my Nerd On

I’ve been using a MacBook Pro as my main computer for a while. When I purchased my last laptop for personal use Lenovo was having some serious problems with their supply, so I got pissed off and went out and … Continue reading

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GetJar

There’s a writeup of GetJar at GigaOm today, and I just wanted to throw in a bit more color. I got a chance to meet up with Ilja and Bill Scott a few weeks ago to chat for a while. … Continue reading

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JoikuSpot + N95 + MacBook = :-)

I tried out JoikuSpot yesterday for a while. It’s a bit of software that turns your Nokia phone into a Wifi access point using the cellular connection as the backhaul. It worked perfectly!! I have a 3G N95, so the … Continue reading

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Mobile Browsers Wrapup

We had a mobile browsers focused Mobile Monday earlier this week where we heard from Skyfire, Mozilla, and Opera. The message was the same across the board, they’re all striving to be able to take the same experience available on … Continue reading

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The “This is Mobile” Flag

I’m starting to see more and more folks use the handheld media type link to indicate when a mobile optimized version of their content is available. Excellent! However, as normally described it’s meant to point to the mobile version of … Continue reading

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