Category Archives: Community

Events, gatherings, discussions

Fetching Gmail Messages by Label on Android

Android has a nice setup for programmatically accessing data across applications called ContentProviders. There’s a content provider that you can use to read the email that Gmail has cached, but I was having a hard time finding an example of … Continue reading

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Dec Mobile Monday – 2010 in Review

Last night was our 2010 wrapup Mobile Monday in Silicon Valley. We had an awesome lineup for the panel, fantastic turnout, and great conversation. Having Om from GigaOm was spectacular, I got a lot of positive feedback on the dynamic … Continue reading

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Fixing Mobile Messaging

SMS is a fantastic service for person to person communication, but just about every other aspect of it is broken. Lately I’ve been paying a lot more attention to messaging because of the mobile web. It’s a current area of … Continue reading

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Under the Radar 2010

I spent the day yesterday down at the Under the Radar conference in Mountain View. Awesome job once again by the organizers, who managed to pull together plenty of interesting companies I wasn’t yet familiar with and a great set … Continue reading

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Top Startup Legal Mistakes

The topic for November at Mobile Monday Silicon Valley is Top Startup Legal Mistakes. I’ve been talking to a whole boatload of startups lately, and this seems like a really timely topic. There are a lot of folks out there … Continue reading

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Sizing an Advertising Market

There was a decent amount of discussion about the virtual goods vs advertising numbers that Flurry released. Awesome set of numbers they put together there, thanks for sharing them! I think it’s probably worth digging a little bit at how … Continue reading

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Mozilla Open Web App Prototype

I think this prototype of an open web app system from the folks at Mozilla is quite interesting. First thing to note is that it works currently on Android and iPhone devices even in the prototype version they have up. … Continue reading

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Thank You Twitter and Facebook

Getting people to build mobile websites has been an uphill battle for a long time. We had a chicken and egg problem. People didn’t browse the web from their devices because the experience was horrible, and website owners didn’t make … Continue reading

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CTIA 2010 – OMS Pitch Sessions

Yesterday I attended and participated in a subsection of the CTIA show organized by Jai from Open Mobile Solutions called developer pitch sessions. There were some interesting presentations in there, and some great conversations. Here are a few of the … Continue reading

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Apps vs Web Apps Recap

We had our Apps vs Web Apps discussion at Mobile Monday SV Monday night, and unfortunately lots of folks thought we didn’t really do the topic justice. I want to thank Raj and the panel participants for making a go … Continue reading

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