It seems Portland has a lot of freelancers and self-employed folks. I am currently at Gnomedex sitting next to Rick Turoczy, Josh Bancroft and Jason Grigsby, and I’m enjoying looking over their shoulder watching how they work and do their *thang*. This spawned an idea: I wonder what Jason does on a day to day…
Would you use a video ringtone on your mobile? You know, those annoying ring tones that some *other* people have, what if your phone showed a video when you received a phone call? Vringo, a start-up out of New York City, is launching video ringtone channels. At first I thought was a far fetched and…
On Thursday, I’m going to Gnomedex aboard the Iterasi geek bus. Gnomedex is a gathering of bloggers, social media types, and other techno-geeks. I look forward to showing them some of the geek gear and showing the iPhone-types what open technology is all about, sans Steve Jobs’ DRM. This year, along with me and my…
Truphone is a fantastic mobile VoIP I have written about extensively in the past. At the surface, Truphone is like Skype for your mobile phone. The application uses internet telephony to make cheap calls from your mobile. Truphone is a program that sits on your mobile phone and can be used while you’re attached to…
South By Southwest Interactive (also known as SXSWi) is a premier technology confab that happens down in the ultra-hip town of Austin, Texas. This year, SXSWi is crowd sourcing the panel discussion voting, that’s where you all come in to this equation 🙂 I have submitted a panel based around mobile web applications (and installed…
This weekend, the best social media/web culture conference of the year, Gnomedex gets underway in Seattle. For those of you unaware, Gnomedex is a 2-day social media conference hosted by Chris and Ponzi Pirillo. This conference is not driven by a corporate message, rather it’s just a bunch of geeks getting together to talk about…
As Silicon Florist pointed out earlier this week, a new service called Shizzow recently launched as a private beta here in Portland, Oregon. This location based service is intended to connect friends by broadcasting your current location. According to their site: Shizzow is a location-based social web service that we built with the goal of…
When the location aware Nokia Chat client was released, it only supported Nokia phones that were running Feature Pack 1 or 2. With the latest release of Nokia Chat, any handset running S60 3rd Edition can run the mobile IM application, which is available from the Beta Labs Chat page. A few of the new…
China up holds their need for perfection, even when they have to fake it to impress the world. Yesterday it was all over the news that the spectacular footsteps in the Olympic opening ceremony were faked, or “enhanced” depending on how you look at it, with pre-recorded footage of computer generated images. Here is an…
Hot off the heels of watching Nokia shoot some fantastic Nokia Legends videos, I took notice of another phenomenal online video campaign. This time, the Nokia Maps (a technology I’ve written about before) team has produced a series of online videos centered around “Lost Characters”. Nokia Maps is an extremely mobile mapping solution that features…