The W3C Mobile Web Best Practices working group that I’m chairing got a nice write-up in the Herald Tribune! Especially happy about this because the IHT is kind of “my” newspaper — I read it every day on my way to work.
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Well they said it couldn’t be done, but we’ve managed to organize a follow-up to the immensely successful first Mobile Monday London event we held last month. This one will be on December 5th in Soho — details here. I just made the announcement to the mailing list 3 hours ago and already we have over 50 registrants so it looks like we didn’t scare too many people off last time. Exciting stuff!
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So in May when I went over to Japan, I got myself a new-fangled 3G phone. Because I don’t like to carry more than one device on my person, since then the Blackberry has taken a back seat. In fact, it has mostly sat in my bag with its battery drained. OK — the other reason was that people were starting to point and laugh when I used it as a phone. It’s actually a perfectly good phone. Anyway, last week, for some reason, I dug it out, dusted it off and charged it up. I had completely forgotten what a productivity booster the thing is. Just the fact that it lets me clean up my inbox while I’m on the Tube is reason enough to use it.
If only they made a UMTS model with video calling.
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Hey — I was quoted in the press yesterday! I’ll treasure this moment. Oh yes.
Filed by Daniel Appelquist at 9:55 under Mobile Web, W3C
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I am frankly in shock at how many people have responded to my call for participation in Mobile Monday London. Less than a month since I sent out some initial emails and we now have 300+ people on the mailing list. We held our first event last night and had over a hundred people here at the Vodafone offices. The crowd was a good crowd, the speakers were great — it all went off without a hitch (well — the sound system did cut out half-way through but you expect at least one crisis and this was a relatively minor one). Check out the Web site for the pictures and more details. Now comes the hard part: planning the next event when I won’t even be here. What have I gotten myself into?
Filed by Daniel Appelquist at 15:29 under Mobile Monday
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I had the pleasure to take a test drive of Nokia’s new browser yesterday, while speaking at their XML conference. I just have to say — it’s good. If this technology gets into enough hands, it could really open up use of “The Web” from Mobile. The “back button” functionality is especially good — it lets you page back through a series of thumb-nail views of previous pages, which is a quantum leap beyond current user experience. I’m a bit less sure about the addition of the pointer — will adding a pointer to the mobile browser create a better or more confusing user experience over all, especially when users might be switching back and forth between mobile-friendly content and “raw Web” content?
Filed by Daniel Appelquist at 10:18 under Mobile Web, Web
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