Bookmarks for May 18th

October 20, 2009

These are some interesting links I would like to share.

Icones.pro, la plus grande collection d'images PNG et d'icônes –
50 Useful Tools and Generators for Easy CSS Development : Speckyboy Design Magazine –
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The 50 Best Premium WordPress Themes [...]

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DroidDoes

October 18, 2009
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Android, Still A Missed Opportunity

August 3, 2009

Just to be clear from the beginning: I am definitely a big fan of Android Devices.
I have played a lot with the first G1 device, went through the HTC Magic and I am now playing with a Samsung Galaxy device.
Anyway I think that all of the vendors out there are missing a huge opportunity.
We all [...]

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ExperienceCamp09 Milan – My Speech

May 22, 2009

Mobile User Experience Dealing With Big Numbers
View more PDF documents from dotdust.

This is the speech I gave yesterday at the ExperienceCamp09 in Milan.
I had a wonderful time and I wish to thank Luca Mascaro, Nicola Mattina and Stefano Mizzella for being such great hosts.
Guys, see you next time!

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Tonchidot’s Sekai Camera iPhone Application

May 19, 2009

Sometimes I happen to miss something relevant.
This is a fantastic concept and application. Something I would like to investigate for the future of mobile applications.

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An iPhone As A Baby Monitor… Or Use It As A Spy Device

March 19, 2009

I have been working into Innovation for a long time and part of my day job was trying to understand which side use our customers could make of the technology, product or service I was analyzing.
One of the golden rules is that users are always more creative than you. They will always find different ways [...]

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Five Trends In Mobile Phones

March 16, 2009

I think that 2009 is going to be a very interesting year for mobile phones.
Actually there are five things that are gaining momentum in most mobile phone manufacturers programs:

Touch User Interfaces. It is no doubt that Apple with iPhone has set a trend. Every single vendor is going to offer a variety of touch mobile [...]

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The Smart Blocks

March 11, 2009

This is one of the most interesting things I have seen recently. The video says it all.

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Bookmarks for January 30th

February 6, 2009

These are my links for January 30th through February 6th:

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Toshiba TG01. A Quantum Leap In Mobile Design (Thanks To Qualcomm)

February 4, 2009

Yesterday Toshiba announced their TG01 product, a WindowsMobile 6.1 smartphone.
Let’s have a look at the basic specs:

4.1 inches WVGA touchscreen color display
GSM, HSDPA, WiFi, GPS
MicroSDHC slot up to 32Gb
720p HD Video Playback

Fine, you will say, why are you so excited about this?
Well, the answer is: I definitely think that something is going to change in [...]

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Mobile Applications Store. Apple, Google And The Rest Of The World

February 2, 2009

Since I had the Apple iPhone in my gadgets list I have to say that I have been very impressed by the AppStore.
It is definitely a quantum leap in application distribution.
In the past we had only a few means to distribute applications on a mobile device:

Pre install the application on the mobile device. This is [...]

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BlackBerry Storm. An Interesting Story

January 28, 2009

On November 21st, 2008 Research In Motion ltd launched their BlackBerry Storm flagship product.
According to what I can read RIM spent almost two years on this project in a tentative to build a strong iPhone competitor.
I have been working in the mobile phone ecosystem long enough to know that two years is not really a [...]

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Widenoise. Noise made social.

January 26, 2009

A few months ago I was intrigued by the concept of spime.
What is a spime?
In simple words a spime is an object that is aware of his position, is able to collect data from the physical world (e.g. CO2 level, noise, etc), has some sort of memory to store read data, and communication capabilities to [...]

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I Finally Got An iPhone

January 12, 2009

Yes, just before Christmas I was able to grab a 3G iPhone and since then I am using it as my primary mobile phone.
I think that pretty much eeverything has been written on the pros and cons of this device and I simply want to tell my own personal experience.
First of all it is worth [...]

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