bionicDan
RSSMango / Microsoft Windows Phone 7 on this Nokia Lumina feels like Danger Sidekick VII. Gawd loved my Sidekick II.
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Proud to have helped create the Boston app. Nice writeup by co-conspirator, antipax
Group Commerce did such a great job styling the Boston.com Deals app. Check out their writeup about what it was like to develop with Sencha Touch on our company blog.
Then check out their HTML5 web app on your Android, BlackBerry, or iOS device. (Or download the native app to your iPhone.)
beta.boston.com: Boston Deals now on your iPhone
Boston Deals for the iPhone launched this week, the first mobile app for Boston.com’s daily deals site.
The app allows you to:
- Find deals in and around the Boston area.
- Receive deal notifications on your phone.
- Purchase deals directly from your phone.
- Use Google maps (including…
And bye. Hello, Yes is Continental Airlines calling with a trip Alerts Flight status update, we’re calling to let you know that due to a late arriving aircraft young adult, yeah, like 31 from Boston to Newark Liberty International On Tuesday, September 13th. Yay experience delays. Your flight is currently scheduled to depart. Yeah, Boston, yeah 7:48 PM, bye yeah out of date. Yay. As in, Alpha 5. Bye. Yeah the right into Newark Liberty. Bye, yeah 9:14 PM, yeah it’s me change so be sure to check at the airport before departure. You do important to know that this is an estimated time and the flight could actually leave earlier. Bye. We apologize for any inconvenience. Thanks for choosing Continental Airlines bye bye.
- When computers call computers: phonecall from Continental Airlines to me via Google Voice
Mobile Monday NY: Mobile Commerce Event - September 26 at Google
We’re kicking off Mobile Monday New York’s fall season with a great September event.
It seems to me like pundits and prognosticators have been telling us of the coming age of mobile commerce forever. Services that let us whip out our mobiles to buy candy from the drugstore, hop a cab ride, or…
a turning point
Mobile Monday NY: NOOK Developer networking - September 21 at Barnes & Noble Tribeca
Mobile Monday New York is partnering with Barnes & Noble as they bring their developer tour to New York in a couple of weeks.
This should be an interesting event focused on their huge new entry into the “tablet” market. B&N asks that interested mobile, media, and technology executives who are…
Locals and Tourists #2 (GTWA #1): New York (by Eric Fischer)
Mapping photos taken in NYC. Blue = locals. Red = tourists. Yellow = could be either. This = awesome.
Many note the term “mobile” no longer fits the bill. While current trends started there with the first truly robust smartphones, it insinuates a usage (on the go) and a bandwidth (paltry at best) that often isn’t the case. A good look at the data my phone slurps down every month is all I need to know it’s a broadband life that little electronic sidekick of mine is living.
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via Stuntbox - Lightweight Computing
This puts clearly into words a problem I’ve been struggling with, but have had trouble explaining. I’m not so into Lightweight Computing as the term, though.
Music Taste And Web 2.0” investigated how participants view music recommendation services in relation to other sources of music exposure. A key finding showed that, particularly for committed music fans, the joy of discovering music “lies in the labour of the task”. In fact, the real appeal of using music recommendation services, suggests Stamp, may be precisely because they aren’t perfect and users still have to sift through bad suggestions.
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Study Takes Critical Look At Music Recommendation - hypebot (via ubiqwitness)
Fascinating stuff.
(via mikehudack)
