Motility (Pun Intended)

Zidango

Zidango provides a service that allows US subscribers to send MMS between carriers.

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Location based flirting

Smart Mobs reports on a location based flirting service from Brazil. The LocatioNet platform also fleet management, POI/Event identification, mapping and m-commerce (based on location info)

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PhotoMoBlog of presidential primary in SC

Smart Mobs reports of the coverage of the SC Democratic party primary via a photomoblog by Cingular and TextAmertica.

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Who knows what ?!

Network Edge reports on Tacit's ActiveNet. It attempts to understand who knows what by constantly monitoring email, reports, and other documents - a step above social networking tools out there.

At Northrop Grunman, ActiveNet combs through thousands of employee profiles and millions of internal documents -- from emails to PowerPoint slides -- and suggests synergistic matchups between workers, based on what the software's algorithms perceive as someone's interests and expertise. The software compiles and updates profiles of each person's specialties and projects by picking out key phrases in documents; then it sends lists of compiled topics to users daily, so they can choose which ones to keep in their profiles.

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Kinja - Blog Recommendation Service

Network Edge's Blog reports that Kinja is a new online servicea new online service set to launch in the first quarter addresses the problem of the difficulty of finding information in blogs relevant to business people. Kinja incorporates a recommendation engine that works somewhat like Amazon's. When you find a blog you like, Kinja recommends other, similar blogs. Over time, a Kinja-like approach to the blogosphere's wonderful mass of opinion, interpretation, fact, and fantasy will become standard for nearly everyone.

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San Diego Union-Tribune goes Moblogging

Allan Reiter reports that textamerica will provide moblog hosting platform to San Diego Union-Tribune.

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WINKsite: Moblogging, Mobile Communities, Mobile Site Builder

I just came across this site: WINKsite: Moblogging, Mobile Communities, Mobile Site Builder. A preliminary reading has caught my attention. I noticed that Howard Reighngold has joined their Advisory Board - even more interesting.... I'll blog on this real soon.

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Cingular making it difficult for Motorola V400 users to use photos, e-mail?

From Reiter's Camera Phone Report: Cingular making it difficult for Motorola V400 users to use photos, e-mail?. I don't understand why Cingular is doing this. Aren't they interested in revenues from MMS ? I like the comment Reiter posted:

"Sprint has made it a corporate policy to offer the latest and greatest handsets. Verizon typically lags behind some other carriers in offering the latest handsets. Verizon promotes its nationwide coverage whereas Sprint has had relatively poor coverage, although that is definitely changing.

Cingular was created by the mating of two dinosaurs -- Southwestern Bell and BellSouth -- with different cellular protocols (TDMA, GSM) and a really "sluggish" management"

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Blogging within the enterprise - Motorola Labs a case study

I've set up an internal blog within Motorola Labs - my next move is to try to get more people within the organization to start using it. With all the reading people do within my group, I can see it becoming an invaluable repository of information related to our areas of research - All this under the assumption that people actually adopt it. I hope the idea that feeds from the blogs can actually be syndicated to anyone (with a valid corporate username/password) within the organization - even product groups with interest in areas we work on, will make it more sellable as a publishing medium.

Its finally my turn to see if I can make the fat elephant dance !

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OGC Members Adopt Implementation Specification for Location Based Services

The OGC Members finally adopted an implementation specification for Location Based Services. At least now, hopefully, due to greater interoperability, LBS services can finally take off !

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Caddie Blog Server Home

Another set of RSS readers:

• FeedDemon (For
  Windows)


• Aggreg8


• NewsGator


• FeedReader


• PocketFeed
  


• SharpReader


• NetNewsWire (MAC)


• RSSOwl (Linux et al)

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Chicago Bloggers

Hey we can't be far behind.... Check out Chicago Bloggers

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Educational Bloggers' Network

I just stumbled across this - Educational Bloggers' Network. Seems interesting. I need to check this out.

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Nokia endorses moblogs

Russell Beattie summarizes content from the Nokia Investor's meet:

The most interesting thing I heard was about Nokia's enthusiasm for moblogs! Both during the presentation and in response to a question from an analyst about mobiles in the imaging market, Vanjoki stressed that the ability to post photos online and annotate those pictures ("your life" I think he said) as an important differentiator for mobile phones with cameras. This is very interesting to me, as I had the idea that moblogging is a niche idea with a limited audience. But it seems that Nokia is really excited about the idea and is putting a lot of weight on the ability of people to post their pictures online, not just in a photo album, but in a way that becomes entertainment to others.

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Yahoo Launches RSS Aggregator Beta

Hey boys and girls ! Yahoo Launches RSS Aggregator. This is a module (currently in beta) for 'My Yahoo', Yahoo's personalized frontpage. They've always had a wide variety of content, but I like this new feature that allows you to add more RSS feeds on your own.

Another link with some additional tips on this service.

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Yet another moblog solution - update blogs using sms

Yet another moblog solution - update blogs using sms. This one's real simple.... boring.....

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RSSWinterfest: Notes from Day 2

Day#2:

Bill French's (MyST) talk on Content Syndication in the Enterprise. MyST is developing some interesting tools for enhancing research ability in the Microsoft Office Suite. More details on this later.

Looking at the Winterfest Wiki, some interesting links:
Great RSS Tools

I've stopped taking notes of the talks once I got to Roland's Best of Day2. I wish I had him take notes in all those class I slept off in school. ;-)

My additions to notes on:
1. Scoble's talk: Microsoft as a way for developers to interact with actual customers.

2. Just an additional note regarding feedster feeds from someone from Feedster: Feedster feed search result feeds used to be used by news aggregators. Now custom software being used. Might be used by internal corporate organizations - for competitive intelligence. IBM gave them 250 feeds. Oracle, Nokia also.

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RSSWinterfest: Day 1

Dave Winer's presentation RSS feed
RSS Weather feeds
PubSub


Rest of the transcripts are available here
Some more are available here

Shucks ! I had meetings all day long and couldn't attend most of the sessions :-( Hopefully I can attend day 2.

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Cameras need to 'Click' out lound

South Korea's Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) has mandated that camera phones in Korea need to make an audible sound (around 65 decibels or loudness of a normal conversation) before they click a picture. This is to prevent illicit pictures taken of people.

See: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/0,2000061791,20280927,00.htm

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CyberJournalist.net: Blogging the primary with a camera phone

CyberJournalist.net: Blogging the primary with a camera phone

The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, is sending a reporter all the way across the country (literally!) to New Hampshire for a week to cover the primary, equipped with a Treo 600 camera phone

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RSSWinterfest Webcast: January 21 & 22, 2004 | MySmartChannels

RSSWinterfest Webcast: January 21 & 22, 2004 - don't forget to log in then !

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Pheed.com - Photography feed

Audio/Mobile Blogging News talk about a photograph syndication service from Pheed.com. It seems like a service where photographers who want to syndicate/sell their photos can register with so that thier pics can be syndicated.

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High Tech Mall - the Mall Map @The West Edmonton Mall

West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada has an interesting application for locating stores within their mega-mall - interestingly enough they have the application ported for Palms/PocketPCs and Cell Phones. Check out the demo for J2ME phones here

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'Writing' to your blog - This time with a personal touch

This New Scientist article talks about Nokia's Digital Pen and Sony Ericsson's Chatpen that allow you to email or MMS text written/drawn out by it - or in other words they can also allow you to moblog with your own handwriting.

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dodgeball - location based service

dodgeball is an interesting service for mobile phone users that allows you to:

1. Use your mobile phone to look up addresses and cross-streets or find the closest pool table or Ms. Pac Man machine
2. Use your mobile phone to tell us where you are and we'll broadcast your whereabouts to all your friends.
3. Use your mobile phone to broadcast messages to people within 10 blocks of your current location.

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Blogging on Rediff.com

I didn't realize till today that Indian (online) media giant Rediff had a blog hosting service. Nice to see this catching on....

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Navy Tests Web Logging For Team Communications

ScienceDaily News Release: Blog, Blog, Blog: The Navy Tests Web Logging For Team Communications

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) are leading a government-industry team to develop a blog as a promising new approach to speeding up the exchange of information on new defense technologies--and thereby speed up getting the technologies into the field.

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mobileRSS! - Web based aggregator for mobile devices

mobileRSS!, currently in beta, is "a web based client for reading and managing RSS feeds" - or in a other words a simplified web based aggregator that ensures the content that the client sees is adapted for mobile devices. Check out the demo at: http://www.mobilerss.com/(g3ntou55p42py055vqytwomp)/Members/?demo=1

This would be no different than bloglines.com - except that this is only an experiment at the moment (with of course a twist that the content is customized for mobile devices). Note that the content retrieved once a link is clicked is not transcoded or formated for the mobile device, only the rss feed output is.

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