MWC 2008 Day 1

11 02 2008

I arrived on Sat AM in BCN, totally jet lagged but excited. I think the only thing that kept me going on the first day were the Cafes con Leche and tabacco. My client CELL got a really cool apt in the Born district, the Picasso Museum, marina and beach are very close by. The trendiest restaurants in the city are here as well. Sat night some of the team made it from Japan and LA so we met up with Jose and Iris, Bus Dev at Kyte.TV, for dinner and drinks.

Sunday was great, I woke up still feeling the effects of the wonderful Rioja from the night before. MobileMonday had a little gathering before the MobileSunday event from Mystrands. At the mixer I met some old friends and made some new ones. The big take away from tonight, besides having a lovely Austrian buy my a beer, is that I finally got to meet the Facebook Mobile team, Jed and team seem like a good crowd. After a while we left the mixer to get some great tapas :-)

I look forward to the MobileMonday Peer Awards event tonight.





Barcelona Bound – Vamos a Marchar como Dios Manada!

3 02 2008

I’ve been doing some work for CELL, a Japanese content provider that creates Flashlite games. I’ve been doing some market development with European Operators and Aggregators. We are a team of a 8 Japanese and 4 gaijin, its been fun planning logistics, meetings , and parties. Mobile Slate has a list of events you shouldn’t miss if you are attending.

We’ll be in the Nokia and Adobe booths during the show, please come by and say Hola.





Lightsaber for N95 – Hidden Accelerometer

28 01 2008

Dude! You have download this app. I was at Darla Mack’s site last night and stumbled upon the s60 tips site and found that there was an accelerometer shipped with the N95. It looks like Forum Nokia released code to access it. What do you do when you have access to a device with an accelerometer? Well, make fun stuff!





Nokia buys Trolltech, Mobile Linux Platform and tools provider

28 01 2008

http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1185531

WOW! Nokia is really heating up the valley these days. Nokia’s push to not only be a player in mobile but in web as well is not all rhetoric, they are acting on their words. I’ll give full disclosure here, I’m a Nokia snob, have used a nokia device since 1997 as my primary phone, even when I was at Disney and Danger, I just couldn’t stop using a S60. Perhaps the threat of Android/Access/Palm and Moto steering towards Linux mobile platforms is was inevitable that Nokia would jump in the race, after all don’t they dominate 40% of the handset market. I’ve been following Trolltech since a UI project I worked on with TMOUS back in 2005. Good for Nokia for acquiring a local valley company, and they are getting a well experienced team and toolset to develop on the Linux platform, this should definitely help Nokia hit the ground running in a plan to supplement the s60 roadmap and beyond.