200 seats remaining (looks like I was number 310 ;-) I attended Lift06 and it was definitely worth the very few bucks!

Programm
Speakers
Participants

You can also check out my profile. I like that for a conference, tied it to a QR Code displays on your conference badge and you have the ultimate networking tool. Talk with someone, scan his badge and check out his mobile profile on your device (other feature includes downloading vcard, adding him to your adresse book and much more)…

Mobile profile ? how can that look ?

 

Just a sample of a private beta thing, more on that soon… 

Lift07 feed on Feed2Mobile (to read the latest conference news on your mobile)

BTW: looks like I was too late when subscribing to attend the social event (a fondue) on Thursday evening… if you read this and you are not attending the event feel free to contact me, I am up for a diner somewhere (does not have to be a fondue ;-) 

Note that this post was categorized under “swiss” only because it happens in Geneva, the event and the participants/speakers come from everywhere!

Something else that was released by the W3C a few days before Christmas: mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0.

A set of machine verifiable (basic) tests to determine if a web page is suitable for mobile device. Somehow those tests should be performed everytime one access a web page from its mobile, and since it happens all the time with the KAYWA reader, this is something we could/should quickly integrate on our intermediary page.

I am fed up of having my mobile crashing because of big and unreadable web page!

How to determine where is a mobile page ?  Mobile Link Discovery

QuickMark has released a few days before Christmas a piece of software that lets you decode QR Code with your webcam! The soft is available in the download section

Was about time for me to set up my old webcam (I used it back when I lived in Boston to chat with friends and family) on my computer and here I am with my girlfriend’s Qtek* showing off Feed2Mobile on a mobile device.

Note that this post is the first one of the 2D Code category…

* yeah I also tried the QuickMark reader on the Qtek but does not seem to work unfortunately…

Newcomer in the swiss press Reflex, a joint effort from Largeur.com and the EPFL, is all about technology, science and innovation! Did not have the time yet to go through but it is promising.

English version is also available! 

Wouah! Congrats

Note that Endoxon is providing mapping technology to Local.ch 

The mobile web is, at least, getting the attraction it deserves to (and that I have been waiting forever :-). One of the downside is that newcomers jump in the discussion and ask the same question that have been discussed forever…

Most of us are aware of the fact that there are several limitations of WURFL. […] A possible solution for aforementioned problems could be UAProf. (#)

Example for the Nokia 6681 

Compilation of answers from Luca (WURFL) and Barbara:

• UAProf is frequently wrong (which is quite surprising since infos are provided by the manufacturer);
• UAProf data is not as standard as it should;
• UAProf data is extremely limited, as it should be to keep overhead down;
• WURFL does import UAProf data whenever a new device is kind enough to leave an UAProf URL;

For more informations:

The list of available UAProf files for Nokia devices can be found there and UAProf files can be accessed at http://nds1.nds.nokia.com/uaprof/<filename>.

Two things that strucked me last week about BleuBlog, the blog plateform KAYWA is running for Edipresse/Le Matin Bleu

1) Over 100’000 comments in 9 months….

2) When a community like BleuBlog organises by itself without external help a Christmas gathering like the one the “BleuBlogueurs” are setting up next Thursday it must means something… no ?

Excellent piece of writing from Tommi over on S60 application blog: 2D Barcode Manifesto. The discussion that follows is also very interesting (as much as the post itself) with Dennis from ShotCode ans Stan from Semapedia around the content of the codes… shortcode vs. url

I believe there is a market and an use for both… shortcode has some advantages over url! Size is one advanatge and then there is all the services you can provide on top of it.

I don’t see a solution for ID’s unless there is open number space for ID url mappings. (#)

Yes…

In my view codes should be like the internet, you don’t earn money with the internet, you earn money with the solutions you provide via the internet. (#)

I think that for instance kaywa is heading in the right direction by creating a browser and by providing solutions and concepts. The only thing is that kaywa should be blamed for misusing the open standard by creating a adding an own shortcode in the system. (#)

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