Archive for the 'mobile 2.0' Category

The genius of Amazon’s Kindle e-book

Apart from the nice looking e-ink display and the apprently correct design (though not awesome, the keyboard is really tacky) what really is genius in Amazon’s Kindle resides in this discreet excerpt from Amazon’s sale pitch:
Unlike WiFi, you don’t have to find a hotspot. Amazon pays for Kindle’s wireless connectivity so you will never see [...]

iPhoney, a nifty iPhone browser simulator

iPhoney simulates how mobile Safari renders pages on an iPhone. You can rotate and zoom, and it looks good too. It requires Safari Beta 3 to benefit of all the cool features like zooming.
I’m currently brainstorming with the excellent David Turgeon, founder of the music label NoType (which offers free music on line to [...]

P2P, ISP and the media industry

A few days ago I was chatting in a sun bathed terrasse of Petite Italie with a founder of DEP, one of the biggest music distributor in Canada. The conversation went passionate about music, P2P, sustainable culture, etc. These are old subjects of interests for me because I’m both a culture fan highly frustrated by [...]

SMS the new command line.

The idea: to reverse engeneer Twitter — a port of the SMS culture into the social websphere — to operate web services via SMS.
People, and particularly teenagers, have developed a peculiar way to chit-chat via SMS due to the inherent constraints of poorly usable keypads and the necessity to write concisely. This SMS lingo uses [...]