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Happy New Year!

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on December 31, 2005 Posted in Mobile Web 2 Comments

Here are some brief predictions for 2006: 1. 2006 will be the year of the mobile Web. We will see a huge wave of innovation as companies large and small get into the act and create innovative new concepts and …

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Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group in the News

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on November 30, 2005 Posted in Mobile Web, W3C No Comments

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 …

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Mobile Monday London Lives!

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on November 23, 2005 Posted in Mobile Monday No Comments

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 …

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Back in Black

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on November 20, 2005 Posted in Mobility No Comments

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, …

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I’m famous!

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on November 17, 2005 Posted in Mobile Web, W3C No Comments

Hey — I was quoted in the press yesterday! I’ll treasure this moment. Oh yes.

Wow!

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on November 8, 2005 Posted in Mobile Monday 2 Comments

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 …

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New Nokia Browser

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on November 3, 2005 Posted in Mobile Web, Web No Comments

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 …

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Mobile Monday London (redux)

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 20, 2005 Posted in London, Mobile Monday No Comments

Wow! I think I tapped some kind of latent market demand, because Mobile Monday London looks like it’s really set to take off. So far 61 people have expressed interest in the event and joined the Yahoo group we are …

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The Frickin’ Tube

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 13, 2005 Posted in London No Comments

Great. Now the Northern Line is broken. That’s me and about half a million other commuters in London out of luck. The thing with the Tube is that when it works, it’s great. But if anything goes wrong, any little …

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Mobile Monday London

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 12, 2005 Posted in London, Mobile Monday 3 Comments

So I’m tired of reading about all the fun these folks are having over on the left coast, so I’ve decided to try to start a “Mobile Monday” networking event for London. First event possibly to be held November 7. …

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Who is Daniel Appelquist?

I'm an immigrant and US/UK dual national who has been living in London since 1999. I'm an advocate for emerging web technologies, the open web, open source and open data. I am co-chair of the W3C Technical Architecture Group. I was a founder and co-organizer of the Over the Air hack day series and of Mobile Monday London. I'm a former .com CTO. I'm currently working at Snyk, leading open source and open standards work.

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