Moblin is different. If there’s one phrase that sums up what I’ve been trying to do with the last six months or so it’s that. After all, all of the stuff that’s out there right now already exists. Doing the same thing again does not create a compelling reason for people to use your software. So we set about putting our money where our mouth was and started building something. »
If you’re in and around London on 22nd April I’d strongly encourage you to come along to Mobile Design UK where you’ll see an array of excellent speakers. Hume! Pollitt and Demmel! oh, and some bloke called Richards talking about iPlayer mobile. On second thoughts, I’d give it a miss if I were you. Seren’s office at 55-57 Rivington St is the place to avoid on 22nd April 2009 from 1830ish. »
If we, meme like, are just vectors for the continued propagation of tabs into web browsers around the internet. Then Tom Hume is the patient zero. Fight the virus. Close your tabs. Don’t share or be friendly. Look after yourselves, and each other. »
Hearty congratulations to the BBC for winning “Best Mobile Music or Video Service” for iPlayer mobile and to New Bay for winning “Best Service Delivery Platform” for LifeCache 2.0 at the recent Global Mobile Awards. Gentlemen (and ladies), it was a pleasure to work with you. »
Do you like location? Do you like mobile? Then you’ll love Google Latitude but if you have a UK G1 then the firmware upgrade to build it into the native maps client isn’t available yet. Which is obviously not ideal. So here’s the strangely manual hacky way to get it to work if you really must (I must) set up latitude on your desktop computer. visit http://google.com/ig on your android browser choose ‘classic view’ select google latitude from the iGoogle sidebar accept the gears request to use your location profit As you can see, the Web Wins Again. »
I saved the dog. After twenty or so hours of trials, tribulations, entertainment and saving my life I traded the lives of thousands of innocents I’d never met for that of my faithful dog. Oh sure, there was my wife Alex and my strangely needy Daughter thrown in with the bargain but they’d never been with me on the Bandit Coast when I was on the narrow winding path. Dead of night, sea crashing against one side; sheer cliff the other. »
I am delighted to say that when we were on holiday in San Francisco I asked Emma to marry me. Thankfully, she said yes. This makes me an extraordinarily lucky man. »
After a very happy and rewarding time I’ve left Fjord and today I started working in the Intel Open Source Technology Centre with the old Opened Hand crew in London. It’s good. We’re going to make some nice stuff. I’ll let you know when you can have a look. »
From Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time email newsletter: Pietro Corsi pointed out that the word ‘biology’ had been invented 25 times by 25 different people towards the end of the 18th and early 19th century, but then largely dropped because of the politics of the French Revolution. And after 1802 ‘bio-technology’ was used but not used again for 120 years, again because of the fallout of the French Revolution. That is good knowledge. »
“The repeated claim for all Batman movies since Frank Miller’s graphic novel set the tone is to have discovered the darkness in the superhero’s life. This darkness, it turns out, means he’s an orphan and very angry” Michael Wood in the LRB is on top form. »