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Mossberg’s Missive Makes its Mark

By Daniel Appelquist on October 25th, 2007

Thanks to all those who told me I needed to read Walt Mossberg’s article on the state of the mobile industry v. the Internet. It is a really great piece and sums many of the problems facing the mobile industry. As I said last year, I do believe that openness is an inevitable trend. I [...]

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I'm an American Ex-Pat living in London. I'm a father of two and husband of one. I work for BlueVia (a unit of Telefónica Digital) where I head up Product Management. I founded Mobile Monday London, Over the Air and the Mobile 2.0 conference series. I am an advocate for the open Web and for Web Standards.

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RT @dontcallmedom: #W3C Mobile Web Applications course strikes back â featuring darth @robinberjon http://t.co/O77hNCZl ; diving much d ... http://twitter.com/torgo 10 hours ago
Watching HashBang.TV Episode 2: pearls of wisdom from @JoRabin of @momolondon : http://t.co/SMVEjRBr http://twitter.com/torgo 14 hours ago
The scene at @techhub mobile demo night. Ubi taxi app being demoed. http://t.co/ubraN1yf http://twitter.com/torgo 2012/02/07
At @techhub demo night. @steely_glint up next demoing Phono SDK from Voxeo Labs. Ãber cool stuff. http://twitter.com/torgo 2012/02/07
@marekpawlowski :) jury is still out. Agree it's flakey. I am interested to find out if read receipts change the social experience. http://twitter.com/torgo 2012/02/07
@marekpawlowski I don't think you can be for or against: iMessage is an inevitable result of industy failure to innovate in measaging space. http://twitter.com/torgo 2012/02/07
Watching as @techhub is transformed to an event space for the mobile demo night. http://twitter.com/torgo 2012/02/07
RT @carlosdomingo: We will fix it!! RT @JoseValles49: HTML5: The mobile compatibility debate continues http://t.co/nnU15pZo #mobile http://twitter.com/torgo 2012/02/07
RT @widgetspecs: Widget Access Request Policy is now a W3C Recommendation. http://t.co/pyMY4pI3 http://twitter.com/torgo 2012/02/07
@graouts yes but once it's turned on on both ends how does it change user behavior around messaging? http://twitter.com/torgo 2012/02/07

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