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Travel Notes from this Week

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on April 26, 2008 Posted in Travel No Comments Tagged with a380 www2008 web2expo

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 …

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Around the World for the Mobile Web

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on February 2, 2008 Posted in Mobile Web, Travel 6 Comments Tagged with A380, Airbus, mobea, MobileWeb, W3C, Web2Expo, WWW2008

I’ve just had confirmation that, for my flight out to Beijing for the upcoming WWW2008 conference in April, I will be flying the first leg on a Singapore Airlines Airbus A-380 “superjumbo.” The flight will be London to Singapore on …

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What Time is It?

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on December 10, 2007 Posted in Mobility, Travel No Comments Tagged with blackberry, iPhone, Mobility, Nokia, rants, time

[ad] Why, in this day and age, when they can send a man to the Moon, is it so frickin’ difficult to tell what time it is? Specifically, what makes it so seemingly difficult for mobile devices, which are connected …

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Not Dead

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on August 18, 2007 Posted in Blogs, Travel 1 Comment

I know I haven’t posted here in a while. Don’t worry — I’m not dead. I am taking a trip with my kids in the States and Candada. For daily-ish updates, check out my jaiku micro-blog.

My Life with ZoneTag

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on July 10, 2007 Posted in mobile 2.0, Travel 4 Comments Tagged with Greece, N73, Nokia, Yahoo!Labs, ZoneTag, Zurfer

On my recent trip to Greece with my wife to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary, I made myself one promise: I would not use the Web for the whole week. By and large, I kept this promise, however I was …

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South by Southwest Live Notes

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on March 11, 2007 Posted in mobile 2.0, Mobile Web, Travel 1 Comment Tagged with Convergence, dotMobi, FrogDesign, mobile2.0, MobileWeb, SXSW, sxswi, WICD, Zannel

So here I am, sitting in a panel at South by Southwest on “designing for convergent devices.” As I walked in, I caught the tail end of something that seemed really cool – a service called Zannel that does user …

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Back in the UK

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 4, 2006 Posted in Travel, Web No Comments

I’m back in the UK after almost 10 days in Spain. We held the Mobile Web Initiative Best Practices meeting where much good work was done. I sampled the famous cider of the Asturias region. I drove to Bilbao and …

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Madrid’s Beautiful New Airport

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on September 25, 2006 Posted in Travel 2 Comments

This is the 2nd time this year I’ve traveled through Madrid’s beautiful new airport. It’s still wowing me. For my trip to Oviedo to go to W3C Mobile Web Initiative meetings this week and speak at Fundamentos Web next week, …

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My “to-do” List

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on April 6, 2006 Posted in Mobility, Travel 1 Comment

Here’s snapshot of my day: Present some of the work we’ve been doing in Mobile Web Initiative and dotMobi to some important internal stakeholders Go to Heathrow Get my iris scanned Fly to Düsseldorf On the plane, write a use …

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Stuck in Germany

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on July 7, 2005 Posted in London, Terrorism, Travel 1 Comment

So here I am stuck in Germany while the terrible events in London unfolded today. The family is fine. Thanks to everyone who has contacted me today to check up on us. Now I only hope I can get home …

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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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