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Archive for January, 2008

January 15th, 2008

I found these lately:

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January 14th, 2008

I do support this option/statement. We should provide all means necessary to make data travel, query and aggregate wherever we as users want that. Disclosure: I’m involved in a SIOC-project (the last project on the list).

DataPortability.org, web standards, SIOC and FOAF: “In the image, Bob holds user accounts on various social websites (two shown for clarity, but here’s another view), and via those accounts he creates content items (usually within containers of some sort, e.g., in a bookmark folder, personal weblog, message board or image gallery) on those sites. He should be able to port not only his social graph (in this case, his connections to Alice and Carol), but also his personal containers / sets of content items and perhaps even associated comment replies.”

The WebCamp on the Social Network Portability is collocated with BlogTalk 2008 in Cork.

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January 13th, 2008

This is an amazing growth rate I’d say. It will for sure support an new era of always-on via smaller devices. Everything is data packages then: even voice telephony on the go. The availability of everything (well almost) that we learned with the rise of the web will be paired with . Good or bad?

Surprisingly India is not part of that if I read the report (aka the summary) correctly

GSA Survey Confirms HSPA as Global System of Choice for Mobile Broadband; 166 HSDPA networks launched in 75 countries: ” According to a new survey published today by GSA – the Global mobile Suppliers Association, 68 HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) networks commercially launched during 2007, representing annual growth of 69%.

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January 11th, 2008

Billy Perry, Adobe’s evangelist for mobile and devices, shares the latest Strategy Analytics report. And it’s quite encouraging, well not for every country - for example Canada is pretty disappointing - but for the usual suspects. Japan is paramount as expected.

Forcasted installed base of flash lite: “Here you go, a complete breakdown of the forecasted installed base of Flash Lite devices by region, country and version.

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