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Powerbook 12": The Upgrade

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on July 14, 2007 Posted in Technology 6 Comments Tagged with daystar, powerbook

[ad] The hard drive on my Powerbook was giving up the ghost. First, it started making a high-pitched squeal. Then it started “sticking” intermittently – the machine would just hang there until I gave it a bit of a shake …

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Betavine Continues to Ripen

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on May 5, 2007 Posted in Mobility, Technology 1 Comment Tagged with APIs, Betavine, JavaOne, OpenSource, Vodafone, www2007

One of the most exciting projects I’ve been involved with this year has been the launch of Vodafone Betavine. Betavine is a collaborative portal for the developer community focusing on mobile and communications apps. Although mobile operators have launched developer …

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On My Way to Oxford

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on April 13, 2007 Posted in Mobility, Technology No Comments

This morning I’m on my way to the Future Technologies event in Oxford. I’ve never actually been to Oxford, which evidenced this morning when I got on the wrong train at Paddington.  So now I’m going to be late, which …

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Holy Hotspots, Batman!

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on March 15, 2007 Posted in Mobility, Technology 1 Comment Tagged with BT, wifi

I was amazed to find today that I can detect 9 WiFi networks from my home office location. That’s crazy!  Most of them have SSIDs like “BTHomeHub…” and “BTVOYAGER…” so these are clearly set up by BT engineers. There is …

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Timo Veikkola on the Future of Design

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on March 13, 2007 Posted in Technology No Comments Tagged with futureology, Nokia, SXSW, sxswi

Just a quick note: I’m now listening to Timo Veikkola of Nokia who’s title is “Sr. Future Specialist”. Timo’s talking about the values that will drive service and hardware design in the future. Great stuff, especially after the somewhat fluffy …

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Bootstrappers Reinvent Business-Barter

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on March 13, 2007 Posted in Technology 5 Comments Tagged with bootstrapnetwork, SXSW, sxswi

A group here in Austin called the “bootstrap network” (with a rough mission to enable small companies and entrepeneurs to partner with eachother) is launching something they’re calling a “complimentary currency” system to facilitate and formalize this kind of business …

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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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Yahoo! Dishes it out at 3GSM

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on February 19, 2007 Posted in Technology No Comments Tagged with 3gsm, icecream, yahoo!

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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Jobs Denounces DRM while BBC Embraces it?

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on February 6, 2007 Posted in Technology 1 Comment Tagged with Apple, BBC, DRM, iPlayer

Well … we are living in interesting times. Apple’s Steve Jobs has released an Open Letter (published on apple.com) effectively championing the idea of a DRM-free world. Why? Because DRM systems “haven’t worked.” I completely agree. In fact, DRM is …

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Vodafone Betavine Launches!

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on February 1, 2007 Posted in Mobility, Technology 1 Comment Tagged with Betavine, Vodafone

Today we launched something that we’ve been working on for a while here at Vodafone. It’s a developer community portal called “Vodafone Betavine.” The idea of the site is to be a resource to the developer community, especially individual or …

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Who is Daniel Appelquist?

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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