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I’m Qiking from SXSW!

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on March 15, 2009 Posted in Misc No Comments

I’m here at SXSW in Austin this week-end working on getting the word out on mobile widgets and mobile Web and talking about mobile web in the developing world on a panel on Tuesday. Meanwhile I’m using Qik to cover …

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Tagged with: austin, Betavine, Mobile, Mobile Web, SXSW, sxsw mobileweb mobilewidgets qik sxswi, Web, widgets

Early Stage Startups at Mobile 2.0 Europe

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on July 4, 2008 Posted in Misc No Comments

We didn’t announce the startups on the agenda for Mobile 2.0 Europe – we had to keep something back to make for a little suspense. As I write this, the startups are now on stage presenting: Aka Aki: an exciting …

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Tagged with: m20eu, mobile2.0

Web 2.0 Expo Presentation Online

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on April 24, 2008 Posted in Misc 4 Comments

Just made a presentation at Web 2.0 Expo here in San Francisco. This presentation was a bit of an experiment – combining some “vision thing” stuff about the Mobile Web with some specific recommendations for building Mobile Ajax applications (and …

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Tagged with: mobile2.0, mobileajax, MWI, W3C, Web2Expo

Yahoo! not “Mine” on Mobile

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on November 24, 2007 Posted in Misc 2 Comments

My Yahoo not working on iPhone Originally uploaded by appelquist Just thought I’d note this. My Yahoo! doesn’t appear to be working on the iPhone. Same result on the S60 browser. To be fair, though, the kind of user experience …

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SXSW Closing Speech: Bruce Sterling

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on March 13, 2007 Posted in Misc No Comments

Bruce’s thoughts on the death of television as we know it as we transition to the Internet: “Broadcast TV [has turned into a medium that] debases even the poverty-stricken people who watch it.” This guy is really nuts. But in …

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Tagged with: BruceSterling, SXSW, sxswi

World Changing at SXSW

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on March 13, 2007 Posted in Misc No Comments

Just now listening to a great talk by Alex Steffen at an organization called World Changing. Lots of good ideas on living in a more sustainable way. One interesting thread is the idea that products should have an “ecological nutrition” …

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Tagged with: SXSW, sxswi, worldchanging

Who is “Torgo?”

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on January 5, 2005 Posted in Misc No Comments

I suppose as the owner of Torgo.com, I ought to have a brief explanation of who Torgo is. But honestly, I couldn’t possibly do it better than this guy who appears to know everything there is to know about Torgo, …

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Photo: Caffé Mobi

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 29, 2004 Posted in Misc No Comments

This is a little coffee “Hut” on wheels thing that sits outside the Tube station here in East Finchley. They make a surprisingly good latte.

Eye – Key – Ahhh….

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 27, 2004 Posted in Misc No Comments

So a friend of mine from the States was surprised to hear that they have Ikea here in London. My sister is in St. Petersburg (Russia) this year getting her Master’s — and she reports that there is an Ikea …

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Cup of Joe

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 25, 2004 Posted in Misc No Comments

There is nothing like a good hot cup of Joe. And this freeze-dried stuff I’m drinking is nothing like a good hot cup of Joe. What I wouldn’t give for a good old cup of American-style drip coffee.

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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.

For more info on my professional life, see my Linkedin profile.

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If you're curious where the nickname Torgo came from, I appropriated it from a character in the the movie Manos: the Hands of Fate via Mystery Science Theater 3000.

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