ZYB New features

- Free SMS - Manage groups - Easier location sharing - Status update Read more at the ZYB blog.

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Nimbuzz Mobile web pc widgets

Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger (MSN), Google Talk
Chat Funktion for Social Networks wie Facebook, MySpace, Gadu-Gadu, studiVZ, Hyves
For Moblies, iPhone and PC:

Nimbuzz - learn more: Mobile web pc widgets: "Nimbuzz Mobile lets you call, chat, message, and send files on the go, for free. It combines all your buddies from Skype, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, AIM, Google Talk and more. One login, one contact list, all accounts."

Mircrosoft Mobile Application Architecture Guide

"Microsoft have just published a very useful 144 page Mobile Application Architecture Guide. While the guide 'provides an overview and prescriptive guidance for designing mobile applications on the .NET platform' if you look at the content, most of it is generic and equally applicable to all mobile projects."

Read more: Mobile Phone Development - Mobile Application Architecture Guide

g-speak overview 1828121108 on Vimeo

g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

Screensaver Clock

Linklist of Screensaver-Clocks and more: Schöne Zeiten sehsucht

ZYB and W3C Geolocation

In our efforts to create a more connected phonebook, we are now releasing an easy way for our users to share their location on the website. The location can be set on all pages and we use Google's map API to retrieve the specific geo location

Read more: pimp my ZYB - ZYB and W3C Geolocation

ZeptoPad - Whiteboard

No so good English but good software ;-)

(via [video] ZeptoPad - Whiteboard)

Battle for the smart-phone's soul | The battle for the smart-phone's soul | The Economist

BRACE yourself for disappointment: there may not be a flashy new mobile phone waiting for you under the Christmas tree. On November 14th Nokia, the world’s largest maker of such devices, announced that it expects the industry to sell no more than 330m of them in the fourth quarter—about 6m fewer than in the same period last year and 20m fewer than it predicted just a few months ago. Worse, Nokia expects sales in 2009 to drop below this year’s level. This would make it only the second year ever in which the global handset market has contracted.

More:
Battle for the smart-phone's soul | The battle for the smart-phone's soul | The Economist: "Competition heats up to provide the software that powers mobile phones"

Opera Mini 4.2

A new version of Opera was released:
Opera Mini | The most popular mobile phone browser in the world

New features:
Skins
Personalize Opera Mini by choosing a new colorful skin.

Video
We are working to make video content available on more phones through Opera Mini. If you have a new Sony Ericsson or Nokia phone, the chance is high that you can take Opera Mini for a spin on m.youtube.com.

Performance
Opera Mini 4.2 can use our newly established server park in the US. This means significantly faster page page downloads for users in the Americas and Asia-Pacific region.

Sync your Notes
Opera Link support for notes, allowing users to sync their notes between the PC and Opera Mini."

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And:
Opera Mini on Google Android (read more)

Always-On Display

Apple has patented a new display technology that will allow their iPhones to have always-on displays with almost no battery cost whatsoever. This doesn't mean the whole display would be lit at all times. In reality, only part of it would be activated using a secondary backlight system located under the main one. According to Apple, the objective is to give feedback to the user at all times, even when the main display is turned off:

via Gizmodos: Apple Patent: Future iPhones May Have Always-On Display

Google Mobile - Sync

You asked for it, so here it is. We're happy to announce that in the latest update to Google Sync for BlackBerry, we've added two-way contacts synchronization. This new functionality will enable you to sync your handheld's built-in address book with your Gmail contacts. This all happens in the background and over the air, so your information is always up to date, no matter where you are or what you're doing.

Google Mobile - Sync

Social Graph Tool

See-ming Lee's QDOS profile: "QDOS measures your internet status and helps you manage your online profile. To calculate your internet status, QDOS measures your digital footprint - how active, popular and impactful you are online."

Exmaple:

Mobile Search with My Location

(via Official Google Mobile Blog: Introducing Mobile Search with My Location)

Mobile Trends Glossar

FOAF - Friends of a Friend
LBS - Location Based Services
MID - Mobile Internet Device
MNOs - Mobile Network Operators
NFC - Near Field Communication
PND - Portable Navigation Device
PSP- Playstation Portable
RFOL - Radio Frequency Object Localisation
RFID - Radio Frequency Identification
SIOC - Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities
UMPC - Ultra Moblie PC
XFN - XHTML Friends Network

(started from: Ric Ferraro's Blog: Location Mobile Trends for 2009 LBSs)

Google Voice Search

- Voice Search
- Locations Based

Search-Suggestions:
Website Shortcuts
Suggestest Terms
Contacts
Wikipedia Articles
Recent Search

How People Use iPhone

Create with Context - News: "We presented 'Taking a Peek: How People Really Use the iPhone' at the iPhone Developer Summit 2008 West on October 20-21, 2008 in San Jose, California. View the presentation."

Download PDF

Google Search results pages for iPhone

(more Official Google Mobile Blog: New Google Search results pages for iPhone)

Nimbuzz - Mobile web pc widgets

Nimbuzz - learn more: Mobile web pc widgets: "Nimbuzz Mobile lets you call, chat, message, and send files on the go, for free. It combines all your buddies from Skype, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, AIM, Google Talk and more. One login, one contact list, all accounts."


Nimbuzz is now integrated in Studi VZ (The German Facebook) as a Chat Client.
(via Mobile Ajax)

Welcome to the widget world of now

Cool gemacht, unbedingt besuchen: die Widget-Seite von Sprint-Mobile.

Pocket Projector and Laser Pointer for the iPhone

http://www.iphone-ticker.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/rs1800.jpg
Laserpointer
Optoma Pico Pocket Projector

Building CoverFlow for Safari on iPhone

More: Building CoverFlow for Safari on iPhone

Visualisation of the week

YouTube: Captions and Subtitles

BlackBerry Storm Touchscreen by Vodafone

BlackBerry Storm 9500 -

BlackBerry Smartphone - Vodafone
Some Features:
- BlackBerry® Storm™ smartphone in detail
- Multiple keyboard options
- Camera and video recorder
- Built-in GPS and BlackBerry Maps
- Mobile internet
- Multimedia formats
- Business use
- Connectivity

Infopornographic! Datagraphic! Diagramatic!

Huge collection of Graphics and Information Design:
Yay Hooray | Infopornographic! Datagraphic! Diagramatic!: "Infopornographic! Datagraphic! Diagramatic!"

The importance of User Experience

From Yay Hooray | Infopornographic! Datagraphic! Diagramatic!

Grafedia

Grafedia is a new form of multimedia graffiti developed by John Geraci, a student at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program, that transforms graffiti tags into hyperlinked tags for the real world. Grafedia is a word written on any physical surface that is linked to rich media content online. If you see a grafedia tag, you send an email message to that word "@grafedia.net" and the related content is emailed to your mobile device, or anywhere else you receive mail.

Anyone can become a "Grafedia artist" by sending a word and the media file to the Grafedia server. For example, I created a Grafedia tag for the word "mahole." Just email manhole@grafedia.net and see what comes back!

Grafedia: grafedia: words written anywhere, then linked to images, video or sound files online.

Europe-Overview iPhone without contract

Download-PDF

(via FAQ: iPhone-Kauf im Ausland - Apfeltalk: "iPhone 3G ohne Vertrag in Europa")

TouchGraph Google Browser

TouchGraph Google Browser allows for the creation and navigation of ineractive graphs. Ideal for orginising links, or mind mapping.

Let all things be connected

"Violet was inspired by a simple fact: the rift between the virtual world - everything happening on the other side of your computer screen - and the physical world we live in is growing, and growing fast."

From the founders of Nabzatag: vwww.violet.net

RFID Radio Frequency Identification

Very good Documentation and Customerstory on Arte: RFID Die smarte Revolution

RFID on Wikipedia.

boxee: the open, connected, social media center for mac os x and linux

quick intro to boxee from boxee on Vimeo.
boxee: the open, connected, social media center for mac os x and linux

STANZA

City Data Visualisation Artist: STANZA ||Welcome to the main Stanza site. Generative art, net art, and networked spaces. 2008.

Pixolu - find what you imagine

This search engine for images is different to all others. Once you search an image you can refine your search by once again making another search using that image as a key. And there is no end, you can keep drilling down unless you find a more accurate match. It uses Yahoo, Flickr and Google.
Pixolu - find what you imagine

ImageSorter

ImageSorter is an image browsing application, which allows an automatic sorting by color, date taken, name, or size.



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