This post is part of a series on mobile user interface design patterns, excerpted from Designing the Mobile User Experience, John Wiley & Sons, 2007. The first set of patterns will address advertising on the mobile.
Interstitial advertisements appear between screens within a mobile application. They are, in essence, a dialog box painted on top […]

This post starts a series on mobile user interface design patterns. Future posts will contain a “pattern of the week”, excerpted from Designing the Mobile User Experience, John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
A design pattern documents known good solutions to frequently occurring design problems. In some cases, the solutions themselves become encoded as user expectations: an […]

Hello all

I will be in the USA for the next two weeks. Schedule as below. If you are attending these events, would be great to catch up. Alternately, if you are nearby, we could meet as well.

I am speaking on Oct 3 at Ajaxworld (Santa Clara) a more detailed link of all sessions HERE

Then at Stanford university at the Digital Vision program on Oct 5. My talk is on Mobile Social Software and finally at the CED Tech 2006 in Raleigh North Carolina where I am on a Web 2.0 panel…

Hello all

I will be in the USA for the next two weeks. Schedule as below. If you are attending these events, would be great to catch up. Alternately, if you are nearby, we could meet as well.

I am speaking on Oct 3 at Ajaxworld (Santa Clara) a more detailed link of all sessions HERE

Then at Stanford university at the Digital Vision program on Oct 5. My talk is on Mobile Social Software

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Feedback from Stanford / Karen on MoSoSo talk
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and finally at the CED Tech 2006 in Raleigh North Carolina where I am on a Web 2.0 panel.

I try to avoid driving when I am in the States(which restricts me to hotels unfortunately!). So, I am at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara , Sheraton Stanford Palo Alto and and the historic Carolina Hill Chapel Hill

There may be a short visit to Boston if I can make it in my schedule.

Please email me at ajit.jaokar at futuretext.com if you want to catch up

Active RFID is now being used to track and trace victims in a disaster situation. This is one more situation in which RFID is being used to aid the public and save lives. Data can be collected in real…

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The World Wide Web as we know it, is exploding. From its fragments emerges a new ‘container based’ Web based on Widgets.

For the lack of a better word, I shall call it a Widget Widget Web

I have long advocated the power of Widgets to transform the Web as we know it. Hence, I am starting a new set of blogs on the future potential and evolution of Widgets. Recently, Om Malik also wrote a great article Suddenly everything’s coming up widgets. The goal of the Widget Widget web series of blogs is to discuss the evolution of the Web using the Widgets philosophy…

David Cameron(UK opposition leader - Conservatives) launches a blog today. This is a good development. I especially like the idea of adding a David Cameron widget. Technically, its exactly on the right track as I will indicate in forthcoming post soon about Widgets.

This week I was out at EPIC giving a paper, and had not only enjoyed Portland, our hosts at Intel, and the company of the many great people I met while out there, I also had a pleasant experience with wi-fi. Sitting at Chicago O’Hare I stared at the signs for paid wi-fi and wondered why it has to be so difficult to get wireless access in many public places. On the flight from O’Hare to Portland, I noticed in the inflight magazine (forgot to bring a book) that PDX provides free wi-fi. What a difference. Stepping off my flight, I was able to open my laptop, pick up the network right away, and check mail and my hotel information. I snapped my MacBook shut and headed downtown to my hotel.

Arriving at the Hotel Lucia, I opened my machine up in my room and immediately got no fewer than eight wireless networks on my AirPort, several of which were free. I opted for the hotel-provided wi-fi, and with my roomate for this trip, Andy, we had three laptops running connected with little effort. The next day, arriving at Intel’s Hillsboro facility, my and other attendee’s faces lit up upon sitting down for morning coffee as we picked up guest wi-fi within the building. As a result, we were able to stay attached during the event, and in my case I was able to fetch images of Flickr to freshen up my presentation on the fly. Portland takes wireless connectivity seriously, and is in the early stages of installing a metro wireless network for use by the city and its residents. Pretty much anywhere I needed wireless Internet on this trip I had it (except Chicago!)…

Just as US MVNOs look like they are running into a dead-end with content-brand centered launches (ESPN), or age-segmented strategies (Amp'd), the hot new trend seems to be operators targeting ethnic groups. Helio probably started it by trying to appeal…

I dislike RFID tags for a varienty of reasons. When RFID tags are used to protect Palm OS handhelds, I can understand this. However, I recently bought a 3$ tin of hair gel and saw this:

A RFID tag! As if this isn’t crazy… . Protecting a 3$ tin with a RFID tag that probably […]

The UK arm of T-Mobile has reversed its ban on VoIP applications on it Web 'n' Walk data service, according to the Register. The Reg says T-Mobile will introduce a Web 'n' Walk Max tariff plan that allows up to…

This post is part of a series on mobile user interface design patterns, excerpted from Designing the Mobile User Experience, John Wiley & Sons, 2007. The first set of patterns will address advertising on the mobile.

Interstitial advertisements appear between screens within a mobile application. They are, in essence, a dialog box painted on top […]

This post starts a series on mobile user interface design patterns. Future posts will contain a “pattern of the week”, excerpted from Designing the Mobile User Experience, John Wiley & Sons, 2007.

A design pattern documents known good solutions to frequently occurring design problems. In some cases, the solutions themselves become encoded as user expectations: an […]

Taipei is one of the world’s most connected cities. Personal computer usage in Taiwan is high, with 88 per cent of households using a computer - and 83.6 per cent us ing the internet, compared with around 65 per cent…

Just back from NetEvents (a comms-oriented press & analyst event) . I moderated a panel debate on Enterprise FMC as part of it.With the exception of one of my analyst peers, the panellists were WiFi network vendors (Trapeze, Strix, Symbol & Meru), so i […]