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Entries from July 2006

Yiibu Presentation PDF Now Online

July 31st, 2006 · No Comments

If you’re looking for a copy of the Mobile Monday Boston, OZMAD, Boston Adobe Mobile User Group or New Media BC/UBC Magic presentation “Creating ‘Casual’ Games, Content and Applications for the (Mobile) Long Tail”—look no further. We finally have a PDF version available for download (500k)!
Thanks for being patient. We’ve been absolutely swamped lately [...]

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Tags: Content · Flash Lite · News · Yiibu

Carnival #38 and Post of the Month :-)

July 31st, 2006 · No Comments

Another week, another Carnival. Don’t miss this installment of the Carnival of the Mobilists (#38), hosted by Judy Breck at SmartMobs.

The Carnival has also announced the winner of last month’s ‘Post of the Month’ and ‘Host of the Month.’ Congratulations to Rudy who wins host of the month. And it seems, I beat out [...]

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Tags: News

LOL-I am an Infovore, You are an Infovore

July 26th, 2006 · No Comments

I think i’ll have to buy the New Scientist today to read the rest of this article…
Why are you reading this article when you could be watching paint dry instead? It’s all because of our innate hunger for information. Humans, it turns out, are infovores…The term was introduced into the scientific lexicon recently by neuroscientists [...]

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Tags: Content

Carnival of the Mobilists #37

July 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

This installment of the Carnival of the Mobilists (#37) is hosted by Michael Mace of Mobile Opportunity.

This week’s issue has a great blend of technology and product news as well as industry research and commentary. Michael has also kindly included my recent post on Murdock’s ‘universals of culture’ and why they don’t quite seem [...]

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Tags: Uncategorized

Mobile Gaming isn’t just Gaming on a Mobile

July 21st, 2006 · No Comments

An informative post by Chetan Sharma in Seattle yesterday. He offers a round-up of last week’s Mobile Gaming Conference and brings up a few points that I feel are specifically relevant to Flash Lite developers.
Missing the big picture – Except for some of the seasoned industry veterans like Daishiro Okada (Square Enix), [...]

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Tags: Flash Lite

Universals of (Mobile) Culture

July 20th, 2006 · 1 Comment

I’ll be the first to admit i’m probably not your typical consumer. I don’t own a home or car, have no kids, watch little mainstream TV, don’t eat fast food, live in a tiny flat with little interest in a larger one, don’t shop much for items to decorate my surroundings, don’t have a large [...]

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Tags: Content · Culture

Thanks to everyone in Boston!

July 17th, 2006 · No Comments

A note of thanks once again to Alessandro and the whole gang at Mobile Monday Boston for the opportunity to present to the Boston mobile community last week. The MIT venue was lovely and the questions from the audience challenging enough to keep me pondering a few things on my flight home.
Thanks as well to [...]

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Tags: News

Freedom, Openness and the Evolution of Business (in Response to Charlie…)

July 13th, 2006 · No Comments

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Charlie had a great post a few days back.
When I review my notes I see that I have been asking myself in so many different contexts, how can we help the operators. How do we give them incentives to open one layer and then move money to another layer? How to we [...]

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Tags: Content