February, 2010

22 Feb 2010

Mobile User Agent Strings and Wreckage Ahead

In a society with strong diversity, you design the system to be flexible enough for everyone. Often it means to find the sweet spot where you maximize the experience and the access whatever your requirements are. The work of Web standards is part of this system to maximize the experience.

The mobile devices are bringing a lot of diversity to the Web world. That is good. It should encourage universal design, respect of Web standards and not designing…

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18 Feb 2010

Mobile World Congress, day 3


These are my notes for day 3 of the Mobile World Congress 2010, in Barcelona. For past entries, see my impressions on day 1 and my reading of the pre-summit consensus on mobile augmented reality on day 2.


This is day three of the congress and I think I am starting to get the hang of it! Orienting oneself in this maze of booths can be daunting at first, but one eventually finds…

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16 Feb 2010

The Rough Consensus on Mobile Augmented Reality


This is the second post in my coverage of Mobile World Congress (see also the first post with my first impressions and the major trends at the MWC). Today I finished reading the 30-odd position papers for the upcoming Mobile Augmented Reality Summit, and while I am not yet at liberty to share the location of the papers, I took the time to write down what I think is the rough consensus among the participants,

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15 Feb 2010

Mobile World Congress 2010, Day 1


I am currently in Barcelona, Spain for the 2010 edition of the Mobile World Congress. I will be trying to cover the event as I experience it, through pseudo-live-blogging articles. I also plan to produce an ePub report at the end.


After a week-end marred by flight delays, surprisingly cold weather and mild food poisoning, here I am on the Plaça d’Espanya, in one of my favorite cities in the world, about to enter the…

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9 Feb 2010

Mobile Augmented Reality: beyond the glorified tour guide and the dystopian future

This post is a position paper for the upcoming Mobile Augmented Reality Summit. Pheromone, as company developing Web services and applications, and online social networks in particular, will be joining this summit to observe the upcoming technological trends in Augmented Reality, and lay out its vision of MAR beyond the usual scenarios of the glorified tour guide and the dystopian overflow of information without any concern for privacy: a vision of MAR as a very personal tool for egocasting, serendipity and discovery.

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1 Feb 2010

Using Web Technologies for “native” mobile applications

Simon St.Laurent believes that the iPad is a great opportunity for Web developers. It seems somewhat counter-intuitive. Shouldn’t Web developers be cheering for platforms such as Palm’s WebOS or Symbian, both holding great promises for Web technologies and basing their applications on HTML, CSS and Javascript?

Why cheer upon seeing the iPhone sales skyrocket in the last quarter, or the latest Android device releases boosting that platform, too? After all, both Apple and Google push their…

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