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Beyond Mobile 2.0 Panel

Posted on October 28, 2007 by miker

I moderated the Beyond Mobile 2.0 panel at the >Play conference yesterday and just wanted to get down some of the thoughts from the day. The conference sold out this year, great job by the organizers! The discussions were fantastic, … Continue reading →

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Wearable Computing

Posted on October 26, 2007 by miker

No matter how many times I see the stuff and never get a chance to play with it, it always makes me happy to see things like Samsung detailing plans for a wrist wearable cellphone hybrid. I don’t know about … Continue reading →

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Lean Forward Tablet

Posted on October 25, 2007 by miker

The N800 is a fantastic device for web and IM, but I’ve been poking around with how to make it more useful as a production device. Or something more like a personal dashboard. I would like to have the device … Continue reading →

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Facebook Mobile

Posted on October 25, 2007 by miker

One of the big items for yesterday was the release of the Facebook Platform for mobile. Lots of people have picked up on the news, occasionally followed by “So what exactly is it?” It’s cool, but can be hard to … Continue reading →

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Mobile Metrics Watch

Posted on October 24, 2007 by miker

After we released the first version of AdMob Mobile Metrics some people took a look at the numbers and said “You served more than 650 million pages in the US in a month? There are only 240 million subscribers, that … Continue reading →

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Russ Attempts a “Pants-on-Head Retarded” Usage

Posted on October 22, 2007 by miker

Ever since we encountered the the Zero Punctuation review of Halo 3 every one of my friends has agreed that our new ultimate goal in life is to be able to slip the phrase “pants-on-head retarded” into casual conversation as … Continue reading →

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Intersection of Video and Gaming

Posted on October 22, 2007 by miker

Charlie posted about a full length version of Bloodspell created by Hugh Hancock using a technique called machinima. I’m downloading it now. What it is at heart is using an engine from a gaming system (or something not meant for … Continue reading →

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Greenphone Killed Off?

Posted on October 22, 2007 by miker

Engadget Mobile reports that Trolltech has sold their last Greenphone and is recommending OpenMoko hardware if you want to try out their software. I don’t see anything about this on the Trolltech site however. Last time I spoke to the … Continue reading →

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Modifying docpurge

Posted on October 21, 2007 by miker

The N800 comes with a package called docpurge that deletes files which for most users are just cruft. I end up installing some packages that install stuff I actually want in places like /usr/share/doc. I want to keep them around, … Continue reading →

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AdMob Stats Remix

Posted on October 21, 2007 by miker

We released a bunch of data to share a view of our particular slice of the mobile web based on the requests we see coming through AdMob, and Dennis from WAPReview went ahead and added some additional data to some … Continue reading →

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