Turbine Mobile dynamically generates Flash Lite for mobile phones.

By dynamically integrating image, audio, video and database content into Flash SWF templates, Turbine Mobile generates Flash Lite overcoming the natural limitations of static Flash. Supports Flash Lite features such as external ring tone-like audio formats and i-Mode and EZweb Emoji characters.

The samples are a bit boring and not really perfect, but this doesn't mean the technology could not be interesting per se. Does anybody know more about it? Does it make sense ? Isn't it possible to dynamically create Flash Lite the same way as for normal Flash? It should, right? So where is the benefit of Turbine Mobile?

More about Flash Lite
Flash Lite 2

(via Wolter)
Flash Lite: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashlite/
Flash Lite Features: http://www.macromedia.com/software/f...info/features/
Flash Lite FAQ: http://www.macromedia.com/software/f...oductinfo/faq/
Flash Lite 1.1 Player FAQ: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/kn...fm?id=bb660cc2

Mobile and Devices Developer Center: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/devices/
- Flash für Pocket PCs: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/devices/pocket_pc.html
- Flash Cast: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/dev...st/teaser.html

Supported devices:
- Macromedia: http://www.macromedia.com/mobile/supported_devices/
- Symbian: http://www.series60.com/

Future Laboratory did a report which is according to them the first ethnographic survey of 3G use across the UK.

From the BBC article 3G mobiles 'change social habits':

Researchers studied the phone habits of 10 groups of friends between the ages of 16-35 over six weeks in a range of UK cities.

The report's authors dubbed the new generation of mobile phone users Generation C, with C meaning content.

As well as offering bloggers the chance to post instantly to their own sites, researchers saw 3G phones used as a counterpoint to retailing, socialising, and as a tool for documenting their lives.

The Future Laboratory found names for the three most prominent groups:

• Social gatekeepers: Fulcrum of a social network and use 3G mobiles to keep friends up to date
• Piratopians: Creative outsiders who use 3G phones to make short films and other broadcasts
• High Street hedonists: Use phones to show off new purchases, take pictures of items or asked for instant opinions from a dressing room

CHI 2006 Workshop on Mobile Social Software, Accepted Position Papers

The goal for this workshop is to explore the research questions, coming directions, and relevant technologies surrounding expanded adoption of mobile social software. We plan to address issues in the following areas:

• How will mobile social software change existing social dynamics?
• How will location services and other new technologies change the game? What are the privacy risks and research challenges of these technologies?
• Next generation of mobile social software: What is it and when will we have it?
• How can we build a coordinated, cross-cultural research effort?

Via Nicolas