Archive for September, 2007

Ad-supported mobile sites on the rise

September 27th, 2007 Comments(0)

MySpace announced a free advertising-supported mobile site at mobile.myspace.com. More will come:

Fox said it will also be offering free ad-supported mobile versions of its web sites FoxSports, IGN, AskMen and RottenTomatoes.com in the coming months.

Another important one is Playboy Mobile at playboy.com.

I would say Playboy got it but MySpace did not in term of domain name. It is supposed to be “One Web”: no .mobi, no /pda, no /avantgo (remember that?), no m.*, no mobile.*, no wap.* and no i.* or iphone.*.

Post by AirPress - an Adobe AIR client for WordPress

September 24th, 2007 Comments(0)

I am writing this post from AirPress, an Adobe AIR application that is made for WordPress which allows you write text, upload image/audio and even make video post directly from a web camera. To be honest, it is the first Adobe Air application I ever tried. I did download Adobe Flex Builder and played with a little bit Flex before.

The impression? The UI is pretty fancy. And I missed the spell checking built-in in FireFox.

I would say Adobe AIR will be a major player in RIA area. I am hoping Sun will catch up with Java FX and JAVA consumer edition.

MIDP 3 phone from Samsung?

September 21st, 2007 Comments(0)

It is a OK phone, but 30MB is not something to brag about these days. And “MIDP 3″ must be a typo:
The new orange Samsung E350

Samsung E350 allows you to take up to 1000 pictures and tons of high quality video clips with the help of 4x digital zoom and 640×480 VGA camera and allows you to store them in the 30MB inbuilt memory. The high speed USB allows you to transfer these pictures on your PC and share with them with your friends. The phone supports class 10 GPRS, TriBand, WAP, and Java MIDP 3 so that you establish a connection wherever you are.

Mobile social networks - 3 years after

September 18th, 2007 Comments(2)

Yesterday I attended a Mobile Monday Boston session on Mobile Social Networking. More than 3 years ago, I had a few links on this topic. At that time Friendster was still hot, MySpace was growing and FaceBook was in its infant. Later Dodgetball was acquired by Google. Now both Friendster and Dodgetball are pretty much dead. And everybody jumped in and wrote applications for FaceBook.

If you miss the 2.0 bubble, will there be a 3.0?

[techcrunch.com]: The Holy Grail For Mobile Social Networks

amAze - a free Java ME GPS navigation software

September 18th, 2007 Comments(0)

amAze is a free GPS navigation software for your Java phone. I did not try it myself, but it has a pretty rich feature list.

I am pretty happy with smart2go on my E61. With smart2go I can load map data to my phone using the PC Map Loader, so I do not always rely on network connection. Occasionally smart2go crashes on E61. It might be because the old firmware I have, or I just need a N95.

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