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Month: February 2007

Audio Postcards from Myself

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on February 26, 2007 Posted in Mobility 1 Comment

Either I’m not very good at locking the keys on my phone (likely) or the key sequence to unlock them (hitting left soft-key and star) is too easy to press by accident (also likely). The result is that I’ve been …

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Victorian iPod on Display at Tower Bridge?

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on February 24, 2007 Posted in London, Technology No Comments

Well – it’s more like a Victorian Walkman, but I still though it was cool. This pocket-sized device (manufactured in 1926) unfolds into a miniature phonograph. Amaze you friends, confound your enemies! It was on display on the upper deck …

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Amazon Presentation at FOWA

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on February 20, 2007 Posted in Web No Comments

Amazon continues to amaze me with the work they are doing in their Amazon Web Services unit. What Amazon is doing with Web Services, S3, their “elastic computing cloud,” the Mechanical Turk, etc… seems to me like it’s from the …

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Tagged with: amazon, FOWA, FOWA07

Future of Web Apps First Impressions

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on February 20, 2007 Posted in Web No Comments

Wow. This is big. This is a big room filled with Web developers, entrepreneurs, managers, etc… (helpfully color-coded on their badges). Easily 500 people here. Probably more. All the chairs are filled up and I’m sitting on the floor. I …

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Tagged with: FOWA, FOWA07

Yahoo! Dishes it out at 3GSM

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on February 19, 2007 Posted in Technology No Comments

The Yahoo! stand Yahoo! had a really big stand this year at 3GSM where they were showcasing their wizzy new version of Yahoo! Go (more coherent thoughts on that later). They were giving away dishes of yummy ice-cream as well, …

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Tagged with: 3gsm, icecream, yahoo!

Moco News Coverage of Mobile Search Panel

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on February 17, 2007 Posted in Mobile Web 4 Comments

Moconews published a good summary of the panel on mobile search that I sat on at 3GSM. One thing not covered in the article: mobile web skepticism still rampant. A guy from the audience still didn’t believe you could have …

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Tagged with: 3gsm, MobileSearch, MobileWeb, operamini

3GSM Thoughts

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on February 15, 2007 Posted in Mobile Web, Mobility No Comments

So. After experiencing the 3GSM conference for the second time, what are my thoughts? First of all, I am very much more impressed with the event this year than I was last year. It’s even bigger (60,000 attendees this year …

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Mobile Monday Global Peer Awards

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on February 12, 2007 Posted in Mobile Monday, Mobility 4 Comments

Just a quick post on this. In a word, it was awesome. Kudos to Rudy for putting it together and likewise to everyone else involved in developing it. 23 startups from 23 Mobile Monday chapters around the world showcasing some …

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Tagged with: 3gsm, mobilemonday, momobarcelona

3GSM: Tim Berners-Lee’s Keynote

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on February 12, 2007 Posted in Mobile Web, W3C 1 Comment

It’s 10:00 on Monday and Tim Berners-Lee has just delivered his keynote address. The key message: the Web is an open platform and an enabling technology layer and as the Web moves into the mobile platform (“convergence”), we need to …

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3GSM-again

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on February 11, 2007 Posted in Mobility No Comments

Here I am again in Barcelona, a year after attending my first 3GSM event (the Euro-centric mobile industry’s yearly love-fest). Last year, I was an observer. This year, my schedule is packed. I’m attending Tim Berners-Lee’s keynote tomorrow morning. I’m …

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Tagged with: 3gsm, mobilemonday

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I'm an immigrant and US/UK dual national who has been living in London since 1999. I work at Samsung where I head up the developer advocacy group for Samsung Internet. I'm an advocate for emerging web technologies, the open web, open source and open data. I am co-chair of the W3C Technical Architecture Group. I was a founder and co-organizer of the Over the Air hack day series and of Mobile Monday London. I'm a former .com CTO. I am a parent dealing with the increasing complexities of raising teens in a hyper-connected world.

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