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October 2005 - Posts

• W3C Mobile Web Best Practices

  I'm a bit late on this (and on a lot of things in the last couple months), but the W3C Mobile Web Initiative Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 . [via Andrea Trasatti ] Read More... Posted Sunday, October 30, 2005 9:39 AM by sjh | (Comments Off) Filed under: Tech/Geek, Tools & Reference, Mobile

• Motorola's ROKR Was Born To Fail

  When the ROKR was released, a friend asked my opinion and most likely got an answer a bit longer and closer to a rant than he expected. (I think I have sent him quite a few ranting email replies that wished they were posts on this blog, this one is the Read More... Posted Sunday, October 30, 2005 9:20 AM by sjh | 1 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek, Mobile

• Breathalyzer-equipped Mobiles Coming Soon

  Anyone under the age of 40 has more than likely heard of "drunk dialing". Wired is reporting that mobile phone maker LG is now releasing 3 mobile phones (the SD410, KP4100 and LP4100) with built-in breathalyzers . I guess they will try to claim that it Read More... Posted Saturday, October 29, 2005 9:01 PM by sjh | 24 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek, General, Mobile

• Bloglines Mobile Updates

  I've complained about Bloglines's mobile editio and the lack of required, expected, and stated features, so I think am required to mention that Bloglines has updated their mobile featureset and added a few of those missing features. The "keep new" feature Read More... Posted Saturday, October 29, 2005 10:32 AM by sjh | 28 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek, General, Tools & Reference, Mobile

• Congratulations, Dave!

  It is a bit late, but I'm still recovering from my 2 months of mobile-only web (and still crying silently inside because Dave Winer has once again rolled up into Norf Cack and completely avoided Charlotte...) so I consider myself excused. It is a bit Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:34 AM by sjh | 24 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek, General

• Mobile-Only Web Experiment Ends

  Last Friday, September 30, my mobile-only web experiment ended. Over 2 months of this and I feel like the main thing I learned was that the current state of mobile web applications is this: they seem to be ports of sites with little functionality (and Read More... Posted Friday, October 07, 2005 9:11 AM by sjh | 30 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek, General, Mobile