Archive for July, 2008
31.07.2008 | 11:29

SpotMe

fr.techcrunch: SpotMe va enfin nous permettre de mettre nos badges de conférence à la poubelle I can't believe someone has not yet developed a similar service that uses the existing device. I already have a mobile phone in my pocket, why should I carry another device ? SpotMe...
30.07.2008 | 10:34

Twitter as an input for your service

Dopplr recently launched a new version called "Copenhagen" and amongst the new features there is this possibility to insert new trip to Dopplr directly via Twitter (and also by SMS or email). All you need to do is reply to Dopplr with the trip information (eg. "A trip to Helsinki on May 19 to May 23...
28.07.2008 | 08:32

Blog4Mobile

Using the feed of a blog to generate a mobile friendly version of it is something we have tried when at Kaywa, and I still do believe one can make something nice of it. For various reasons we failed imho but wish all the best to Blog4Mobile :-)... good point to start with they plan to share revenue...
22.07.2008 | 09:05

Festival guides

Remember the mobile guide for Paleo festival ? I found out that the same app exists for few other festivals in Switzerland. Neat. I found this out through my beloved carrier portal. Talking about it... a Google search field has appeared on top of the the main page... looks like they are "opening" th...
22.07.2008 | 08:31

The mobile web is growing

From the montly AdMob Mobile Metric Report (PDF here): Traffic from the 473 publishers grew 104% from July 2007 to June 2008. This indicates that the mobile web more than doubled in 12 months ending in June 2008. ...
21.07.2008 | 22:55

My Mobile Web (2): mobile.rsr.ch

I am going through my mobile bookmarks. First step: my "swiss" folder, or to put it another way: making good use of the mobile web without using useless and expensive services from Swisscom Mobile and its "Vodafone" Portal. I found it only very recently about the mobile website of the swiss radi...
18.07.2008 | 18:34

Thursday night @ Montreux

There was also yesterday night a Techcrunch meetup in Zürich. I would have probably gone there otherwise but what those pictures maybe do not say is that I have no regrets or whatsoever... :-)) ...
14.07.2008 | 10:14

Smaller is better

New York Times: On a Small Screen, Just the Salient Stuff [...] Visiting Web sites that have been redesigned for the iPhone is often a quicker and more pleasing experience than it is on those increasingly cinema-style desktop displays [...] [...] By stripping down the Web site interface to th...
14.07.2008 | 08:53

Le Matin ne gère pas son espace numérique

Typique des médias traditionnels. Sentant le vent tourner les médias dits "traditionnels" investissent dans internet, souvent avec du retard mais en plus sans stratégie. Créer une communauté numérique autour d'un quotidien c'est très bien c'est louable, mais il faut alors se donner les moyens...
08.07.2008 | 10:05

Paleo Mobile Guide

Paleo Music Festival just released a mobile guide with full of informations (programm, news, infos, maps,...). The guide is a standalone application in Symbian done by Minick wich had done the guide for the Euro 2008 if I am not mistaken. More screenshots on my Flickr. Via Paleo blog...