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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 mobile social network platform that uses location and proximity (through Bluetooth) to encourage unanticipated interactions - such as looking up the profile of someone you happened to bump into on the street. It does this by tracking the unique Bluetooth addresses of everyone around you and checking these against registered profiles. Creepy? Possibly, but very cool.

Dial2Do: a voice-based platform for access Web 2.0 services (with a special emphasis on hands-free usage, such as from the car).

Shout’Em: A mobile social network out of Croatia that enables micro-blogging, media sharing, the whole shebang.

ViaMobility: A mobile widget play - taking PC widgets from a varierty of platforms onto the mobile. From the mockup of the experience they presented, it looks pretty compelling.

YouLynx: Converging  the mobile / Internet / PC experience, focusing on messaging, blogging, media share and incorporating Geolocation.

Zipiko: Another social utiloty focusing on organizing adhoc social activities, meetups, and enabling “spending time with friends.” Making it easy to communicate your intentions (like: “I’m going to go get a coffee now”) among a circle of friends. I think they’ve got something - the user experience and design is spot-on. Plus it “improves your sex life.”

There you have it. Time for a coffee break!

Filed by Daniel Appelquist at 10:27 under Misc
Tags: m20eu, mobile2.0

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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 thanks to Óscar Gutiérrez Isiégas, Scott Hughes and Jonathan Jeon for their contributions). I got a lot of requests for the slides - so here they are for anyone interested!

 

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Filed by Daniel Appelquist at 22:59 under Misc
Tags: mobile2.0, mobileajax, MWI, W3C, Web2Expo

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My Yahoo not working on iPhone

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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 that My Yahoo! provides isn’t particularly suited to the mobile browser. What would be much better would be to provide a mobile-specific experience of the same content (for example, tabs instead of columns, a-la the fantastic iPhone Facebook app).

Filed by Daniel Appelquist at 23:35 under Misc

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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 a good way.

Filed by Daniel Appelquist at 22:38 under Misc
Tags: BruceSterling, SXSW, sxswi

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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” label on them that inform consumers of the pedigree of products and services before they make purchase decisions. I think there is a burgeoning trend towards this approach that you can already see with Fairtrade coffee or organic produce at the grocer’s.

Filed by Daniel Appelquist at 21:01 under Misc
Tags: SXSW, sxswi, worldchanging

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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, from the movie Manos, Hands of Fate. In fact, he may know a little bit too much. Creep-factor 10, captain?

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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.

Filed by Dan Appelquist at 23:19 under Misc

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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 there too.

Ikea is like a state unto itself. I think they own whole south-pacific
islands where they grow forests of particle-board-trees under huge yellow
domes.

The Ikea in London is like every other Ikea I’ve ever been to. Keep in mind
as well that the last time I was in an Ikea was about 6 years go. They are
a constant throughout space and time.

Filed by Dan Appelquist at 18:50 under Misc

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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.

Filed by Dan Appelquist at 15:57 under Misc

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