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Thursday, March 31, 2005

IDEAS ON MOBILE SEARCH AND P2P BRAIN POWER A.K.A. NOTES FOR MY THESIS| Russel Beattie writes: "It's really about asking for anything and then getting it. To me search isn't just about finding stuff that's been indexed on the web, it's the Quicksilver type interfaces as well: Ask and you shall receive. Now the rest of the problem is just figuring out 1) How to find the data (where ever it may live) and 2) How to get it back to the person who's asking for it. With mobile phones, this means jumping through some hoops because of bandwidth and use cases, but it can be done, right?

This would be so easy to mock up with Series 60 phones: Create central index site "neatomobilesearch.com" and then whip up a Python script that goes through the normal data repositories (image, video, messaging, documents), indexes what it finds and periodically connects to the server to upload its results, and also see if there's any pending requests that it needs to fill. If the script connects, and it sees a few requests for files (from a search), it then uploads those files as well. And like I said above, the search interface could be based on some sort of social network or it could just be based on what I decided to make public or not... |SmartMobs|

Related resources on mobile search via Textually:

Language technology company Linguit has announced the UK-wide launch of Nuggets.net, an automatic question answering service for mobile phone users based on SMS technology, cf company press release.

Mobile.Answers.com provides instant answers on over a million topics. Using the same trusted content as the Answers.com site on your PC, this edition has been specially formatted for wireless handheld screens.

Mojo Knows: "To use the service you just SMS your question to the Mojo team. You can assign three levels of urgency to your question (Very Urgent means you need the answer in 15 minutes or less and costs $3.00). If the answer doesn't come back in the alloted time, you don't have to pay".

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Saturday, March 26, 2005

PASTE-TO-PHONE| Copy any text (Ctrl-C) from any desktop application (e.g. Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.) and paste it directly to your mobile phone by pressing Ctrl-Shift-V. |Textually|

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Interview with Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia. |Smart Mobs|

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Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Notes from UXnet panel, How UX Plays (and Works) Together. |IA Slash|

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Monday, March 21, 2005

BERNERS-LEE ON MOBILE INTERNET AND UX| A mass market exists for the mobile Internet, but it will remain untapped until designers make simpler Web pages that can be viewed properly on handsets, the inventor of the World Wide Web said. "(The mobile Internet) will be a huge enabler for the industry ... and for big profits," Tim Berners-Lee told a seminar on Thursday on the future of the Web. "Web designers have learned to design for the visually impaired and for other people. They will learn in a few years how to make Web sites available for people with mobile devices too," he said. |Yahoo! News|

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Sunday, March 20, 2005

CELL PHONE NOVELS IN JAPAN| Several mobile websites offer hundreds of novels -- classics, best sellers and some works written especially for the medium.|Wired|

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Tuesday, March 15, 2005

QIX PHONE INDEXING| "Zi's new program "Qix" (pronounced 'quicks') creates an index of everything on the phone, including address book entries, Web bookmarks and applications such as a specific video game from one of dozens of mobile content providers featured on today's phones. |Textually|

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Thursday, March 10, 2005

3D DISPLAY FOR MOBILE DEVICES| If mobile displays are necessarily limited by length and width, the only option is to increase their depth. And unlike the 3D movies of yesterday (and even today), the new 3D displays don't require any special eyewear. Sharp is leading the charge, having supplied mobile phones equipped with "glasses-free" 3D displays to NTT DoCoMo for two years. The company claims that their first 3D handset "sold over 1.5 million units in the first 6 months of sales, more than all previous 3D products combined." Of course, Sharp is not the only one convinced that mobile 3D is ready for prime time. |The Feature|

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Wednesday, March 09, 2005

STANFORD D.INSTITUTE| The design institute is intended to advance multidisciplinary innovation, place Stanford at the epicenter of the design world, and strengthen the connection between the university and industry. |d.institute|

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LEADING THE WAP RESURGENCE| It's hard to avoid WAP these days. From media companies and retailers to Web agencies and mobile services companies, WAP site development is a hot topic. Many in the industry believe 2005 is the year WAP content will really take off in the UK, offering the next opportunity after the premium SMS gold rush. Although the operator portals will continue to play a significant role in WAP usage, the off-portal mobile Internet is also an increasingly fertile breeding ground. |The Feature||MocoNews|

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Tuesday, March 01, 2005

MICROSOFT SIGNALS MOBILE INTENTIONS| The American software giant has signed a deal with Flextronics, the world's largest contract maker of handsets, to develop a new phone, code-named Peabody, which is aimed at the mass market. |Guardian Mobile|

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