Associated Press Planning to “Revive The News” Through a Mobile News Network

Physical world hyperlinking

We need to think about how a user interacts with a mobile phone, their expectations when they take a photograph, what it means to be “in the world” physically while interacting in virtual space. People multitask when they use mobile phones, their attention spans are short and usually data rates are an issue. How do these affect all affect the experience of the user?

Going back to the physical word hyperlinking, if we stop for a moment and question the semiotics of such an act there is so much in this it could be a book in itself. In the 3rd year of my undergrad degree I did performance studies, and the most informative aspect of the whole year was a research project I did on the Semiotics of the Theatre Experience. I never thought such a project would be useful now, but it is – semiotics of space, breaking down of actor vs audience space could be related to breaking down of virtual vs physical space where the audience belongs to the physical world and the actors to the virtual….

※ DokoDare

Just a link for me (have not read it yet). Jan's news however should be interesting enough, especially given the current context.

NYT: Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?

Storytelling with Google Maps.
Now bring it to the real world. (> Dokodare)

Via Digital Who?

The Open Mobile Alliance: Delivering Service Enablers for Next-Generation Applications

The Open Mobile Alliance:

• Provides a comprehensive overview of the service enablers published by the OMA, tying together all the different piece parts developed by the individual working groups
• Offers a thorough introduction to the OMA Service Environments (OSE) and the specification process for enabling technologies.
• Discusses enablers for services such as gaming, IMS, Parlay, mobile broadcast and web services.
• Contains contributions from all stakeholders in the mobile application value chain.

See also:
OMA at Wikipedia

Tabulate brings the convenience of 'open in new tab' to Safari on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Because it's a bookmarklet, you don't have to hack your precious Apple device to make it work – just follow the installation instructions in the sidebar. Then, when you're browsing a page with lots of interesting links on it, simply invoke Tabulate from your list of bookmarks.

Sounds neat. Has anyone already tried it out?

Recommended by Bill Perry (flash devices) and Scott Janousek

Scott Janousek published: Forecasted Installed Base of Flash Lite Devices Worldwide (2007-2008).

Here is the Data Zip File: Flash Lite by country and version*.
The data is divided into 6 main regions: North/South America, APAC (Asia Pacific), CALA (Central America/Latin America), Western Europe, Central Europe and Japan and lists the different Flash Lite versions (1.x, 2.x, and even projected 3.x numbers)

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Flash Lite and Video Streaming

The aim of this article is to provide the basic knowledge needed to start with Flash Lite and its compelling multimedia capabilities. We start with a basic introduction to Flash Lite, describing its history and capabilities. This is followed by a description of the tools necessary to develop Flash Lite applications. Towards the end we outline a simple application for streaming video with Flash Lite.

Ressources:
http://www.flashdevices.net/
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/
http://forum.nokia.com/
http://brew.qualcomm.com/brew/en/developer/overview.html
http://www.chumby.com/developers
http://mobile.actionscript.it
http://www.ozmadgroup.com/
http://www.flashmobilegroup.org/
http://www.flashlite.com.br/brmad/
http://www.indimadgroup.com/blog/
http://www.blocketpc.com/
http://www.flashmobilebook.com/
Video Podcast: Why mobile is important about Device Central
For more, see: Adobe Mobile Podcast Series


* Local Copy of Flash Lite Devices Worldwide

Azuma Junichi in a recent comment to my post from November 24:

2007-12-17 06:16:07
Recently, I found the Microlearning site is offering the pdf file of the proceedings of the 2007 conference. The URL is:
http://ele.researchstudio.at/download/Microlearning2007_web.pdf
It is quite a large file (about 8MB).

His and Hermann Maurers text From Emoticon to Universal Symbolic Signs: Can Written Language Survive in Cyberspace? can be found on page 106 of Proceedings of the
3rd International Microlearning 2007 Conference.

※ Local Copy

NEC Automatic Speech Translation demo

This combines several things already out there (speech2text / translation) into something really useful. When does it hit Japan shores and our mountains?



※ The demo shown in the video is of the travel version on a DoCoMo phone which NEC sees as being useful for Japanese who need instant phrase translation instead of single words as most electronic dictionaries do. The average translation time from Japanese to English/Chinese is two seconds to recognize the Japanese and fourteen for the complete translation.