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Reflections on Siri on “her” 2 Year Birthday

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 4, 2013 Posted in Mobility, Technology No Comments Tagged with Siri

Read this great article in The Verge today on the voice behind Siri. I’m finding myself using #Siri more and more these days, especially for quick tasks that would otherwise take multiple steps and involve unlocking the phone. For example, …

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Content Transformers 2: Dark of the SPDY

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on July 24, 2013 Posted in Mobile Web 2 Comments Tagged with android, Chrome, HTTP, IOS, SPDY

So I read with some interest a tech note from Google on the impeding use of a transforming proxy server for Chrome for IOS & Android. The idea is to speed up the Web on mobile devices where network bandwidth …

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So-Long Big Red; Hello Cool Blue

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on December 1, 2011 Posted in BlueVia, mobile 2.0 2 Comments

Today, I start my new job as Head of Product Management for BlueVia, a unit of the newly forming Telefónica Digital. Why, after 10 years at Vodafone, have I chosen to pull up stakes and move to BlueVia? The answer …

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When Galaxies Collide

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on August 12, 2011 Posted in mobile 2.0 No Comments

[This is a re-posting of a two-part blog post originally published on the Mobile 2.0 blog. For a discount code for mobile 2.0, please DM me on Twitter or leave a comment here and I’ll send you one.] If you’ve …

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Mobile 2.0 in 2010

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on September 17, 2010 Posted in mobile 2.0 No Comments

In 2006, I wrote a blog post in an attempt to define “mobile 2.0.” Looking back at that post, I can see that many of my predictions have come to pass. We have indeed moved into a new area, where …

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Developers, developers, developers…

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on September 16, 2010 Posted in mobile 2.0, Technology 1 Comment

I was amused to see that Nokia’s new CEO closed his talk at Nokia World in London by reprising Balmer’s famous “developers, developers, developers” speech. I’ve been talking to a lot of developers lately. I just got through co-organizing and …

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Boris’s Bikes and Open Data

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on August 17, 2010 Posted in London, mobile 2.0, Web 2.0 3 Comments

photo credit: Charlotte Gilhooly I’m an early adopter, or possibly a serial alpha tester. I’m always willing to give something new a go, especially when it comes to new ways to get around my city, London. I was first off …

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Three Predictions for 2010

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on January 5, 2010 Posted in mobile 2.0 7 Comments Tagged with android, iPhone, mobile2.0, MobileWeb

I have three predictions for the coming year: Prediction #1: I have seen the future, and it is Android. Or rather, the Android model is going to be the model that “wins out.” Right now, especially for those who tote …

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Mobile 2.0 In the Wild

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on November 8, 2009 Posted in mobile 2.0 2 Comments Tagged with apps, mobile 2.0, shirleytemple, vet

My friend Adam is a small animal veterinarian in San Francisco. Unfortunately, I rarely get the chance to see him, but when I do it’s always illuminating in some way. Last night over some lovely steaks and shirley temples at …

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Over the Air

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on September 21, 2009 Posted in mobile 2.0 No Comments Tagged with ota09, overtheair

Yes – it’s almost upon us. Those who have been paying attention to my Twitter-stream recently will know that could only be talking about Over the Air. I’ve been working hard on putting together the session schedule for this event, …

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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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