http://www.torgo.com/blog Musings on technology, the Web, mobility and beyond Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:59:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Open Business Model Panel at Mobile 2.0 Europe moderated by Mike Butcher It's the final panel at Mobile 2.0 Europe, featuring panelists from Blyk (Leif Fågelstedt), Admob (Laurence Aderemi), GetJar (Ilja Laurs), Bango (Ray Anderson) and Fjord (Chris Liu) and moderated by an ebullient Mike Butcher. The theme of openness has ... http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/07/open-business-m20eu.html 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) ... http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/07/early-stage-startups-at-mobile-20-europe.html Pekka Pohjakallio of Nokia Keynoting Mobile 2.0 Europe In late 2006, I helped to run an event called Mobile 2.0 in San Francisco. Run up against Web 2.0 Summit, the event was first conceived as a kind of mobile "meet up" for people attending Web 2.0 - people who were interested ... http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/07/mobile-20-eu-kicks-off.html W3C are producing an online training course for mobile Web developers: "An Introduction to W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices" which will run from May 26 to June 20 2008. This will be a great chance to get more information on mobile Web development practices from the experts -- highly recommended ... http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/05/w3c-to-run-online-mobile-web-training-course.html In about an hour, I will board the final flight of my round-the-world trip, from San Francisco back to London. I've mostly been in Beijing and San Francisco, and I've transited through Singapore and Hong Kong on the way. The most grueling part by far was Wednesday, where I boarded a flight ... http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/04/travel-notes-from-this-week.html 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 ... http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/04/web2expopresentation.html Once upon a time, a company called Apple came out with a great concept: a breakthrough consumer device with a new user interface that left the competitors in the dust. It brought UI to a whole new level by introducing a new visual and gestural language which greatly increased ease ... http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/04/beyond-point-and-click.html I was lucky enough to be interviewed by Peter Price from BBC's Digital Planet. Some of what we talked about got onto the Digital Planet Podcast (dated 7 April). Peter also captured Over the Air speaker/participant Brian Fling and spoke about the coming revolution of "Mobile 2.0". It's a great piece, ... http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/04/over-the-air-on-digital-planet.html Over the Air kicks off tomorrow at Imperial College London. But we're already getting some great press from the Guardian's Jemima Kiss. And they even spelled my name right! The innovation that's going to drive this converged Mobile/Web industry forward is going to come from the kind of people who ... http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/04/over-the-air-covered-in-the-guardian.html Great blog post at the New York Times last week about the disproportionate percentage of iPhone users (84.8%) who use the iPhone regularly to access the Web (compared to users of other smart phone devices). Mark Donovan of M:Metrics is quoted in the article saying that this is because the ... http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/03/iphone-spurs-mobile-web-usage.html I've been working for a while now with the folks at BBC Backstage, Imperial College London and Betavine to put an event that has had many incarnations, but has now coalesced into its final form: Over the Air. With an expected attendance of over 450 and multiple conference tracks including ... http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/03/over-the-air-is-coming.html I was very lucky this past week to have been invited to Seoul (along with the other members of the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices, Device Descriptions and Ubiquitous Web working groups) to participate in something that came to be know as Mobile Web Week. The week of W3C working group ... http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/03/reflections-on-the-mobile-web-in-korea.html François Daoust of W3C and I were interviewed by the Korean press about the work of the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices working group.  Unfortunately,  the article hasn't been translated so I have no idea what they said about us, but hey -- any publicity is good publicity, I suppose. http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/03/famous-in-korea.html I'm sitting in the Korean Airlines lounge in Narita (Tokyo) airport after an 11 hour flight from London, watching a seemingly endless succession of JAL 747s taking off. When I arrived, there were no promised uniformed agents showing me the way. All the doors marked "international connections" were closed. In ... http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/03/why-am-i-going-to-korea.html I got "video blogged" at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week by Dennis Howlett. Dennis captured me talking about the landscape and future of the mobile Web. Unfortunately, he edited out the bit where I was talking about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, which was kind of the point ... http://www.torgo.com/blog/2008/02/i-got-vlogged-at-mobile-world-congress.html