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Mobile

Mobile Apps - The Shit Hits The Fan

by Tadej Gregorcic on February 25, 2008

Mobile application development is finally going where it belongs - six feet under.

RIP

For years now, the mobile phone industry has been evolving into an unmanageable stinking blob.

A plethora of incompatible platforms, each of them with its own set of unsolvable issues, hilarious hardware combinations (e.g. the absence of bluetooth on teenager phones to suit the SMS content sales, phones with radio that only works with special headphones, etc.), all kinds of different artificial market barriers, etc. [click to continue...]

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Ambush Journalism in Davos

by Tadej Gregorcic on February 3, 2008

At the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland, the (in-)famous blogger Robert Scoble was walking around with a Nokia camera phone doing impromptu interviews with people like Marc Benioff, Tim O’Reilly and Rick Warren (who runs the largest church in the US, btw) and streaming the videos live to Qik.

While I do find the way he ambushes people with a “you’re live on the internet” scare quite amusing (look at the video below with Michael Dell), I would rather have him do a quality interview with some of these people using a decent camera - I don’t mind waiting a couple of minutes for him to sync the video to see it online. [click to continue...]

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