As part of iPhone creative minds this week along with Apple’s WWDC, post-it can be used for iPhone paper prototype in a fashionable way!

There is a post-it design contest around it too! Have fun designing with paper!

Tags: creative post-it, design, design contest, iphone, iphone app, iphone prototype, paper prototype, post-it

This is my weekly mobile wrap up around “thinking”. You can find my weekly mobile wrap up around “trends” in a separate post. You can also check out my ongoing mobile news & event updates from my Mobile page.

• Mobile Web or Mobile Apps?

Lots of people ask: should we build mobile web or mobile applications? It’s a common questions for everyone who is thinking of going mobile direction more. I found this article very informative.

It lists out the pros and cons between mobile web and mobile apps.

• N2Y4 Mobile Challenge, Money for Mobile Developers Aiming to Change the World

The nonprofit N2Y4 Mobile Challenge from Netsquared is accepting project submissions from mobile developers through this month and will provide seed funding to a handful of lucky winners. The submissions so far are quite interesting. You can see some early submissions.

• Can you build one mobile app once and deploy it to multiple mobile platforms?

This used to be my question. Apparently, some people are working on it. Rhomobile promises: Build once, deploy to any smartphone.

• Follow the Mobile User, Thoughts from Vic Gundotra, Vice President of Engineering for Google’s mobile and developer products.

Focus on the mobile user, and all else will follow. Simpler data, better browsers, and a smoother experience.

• Finally, One Mobile Related Video for You to Enjoy: TED - David Pogue: “Cool new things you can do with your mobile phone”
  

You can also check out the other two mobile videos that I recently posted about ( Nokia Morph and MIT Sixsense Technology)

Tags: google, mobile, mobile apps, Mobile Computing, Mobile Web, six sense technology, Smartphone, TED, Vic Gundotra, weekly wrap up

This is my weekly mobile wrap up around trends. You can find my weekly mobile wrap up around “thinking” in a separate post. You can also check out my ongoing mobile news & event updates from my Mobile page.

• Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), which recently released its top 10 list of mobile entertainment trends for 2009:

1. The ‘iPhone effect:’ Mobile applications have emerged as a new content category and the mobile internet will finally come of age.
2. Greater value and transparency for consumers will help sustain demand in 2009.
3. There will be some delay in the proliferation of mobile advertising.
4. Telcos will begin to act as enablers for the entertainment industry with services such as billing, authentication and zero-tariff data driving adoption.
5. Services that operate at a multi-platform level are on their way to becoming dominant.
6. There will be a rise in ringback tones.
7. Social networking will become an important driver of mobile entertainment consumption.
8. Mobile video will really take off in 2009.
9. Emerging world economies will become an increasingly important driver for global mobile entertainment.
10. The proliferation of touch-screen devices will continue to drive discoverability and content usage.

• Mobile Banking Users to Exceed 150M Worldwide by 2011:

Tags: iphone, Mobile advertising, Mobile Computing, Mobile Entertainment, Mobile phone, Mobile Web, Social network service, weekly wrap up, Wireless Data

A friend just shared a video with me. All I can say is “Wow”! It is really inspiring to look at how new technology is being developed. Here is a new Sixth Sense mobile technology from MIT Media Lab. No words can explain it better than seeing it. Enjoy

Tags: Media lab, MIT, mobile, technology, TED

It’s year end and I want to pull some interesting web data points together. It’s how I look at the world from the online space in 2008, given that I spend so much time online reading, researching, writing and learning, given that my job is web focused, given that I enjoy shopping and socializing online, and given that I believe that there are still a lot of fun and creative things that we can do on the web!

• Many hopes are on Omaba: here are the Top 10 Ways Obama Can Change American Culture and the Change.gov has a lot of the social applications and social thinking in it

• Hot Products - Toys and Electronics Categories: Hitwise has this analysis in Dec for these two holiday categories:

• Another look at holiday shopping: Holiday comparison - Brick & mortar vs. online-only retailers from Hitwise

• The First iGoogle Banking Gadget Released By Fidelity in Dec: you can see some screenshots here or try it out yourself

• Top 10 Consumer Web Apps of 2008: by ReadWriteWeb

• Burger King launches a perfume that smells like meat, named Flamed by BK: isn’t this funny! more detail on TechCrunch

• Get a taxi from your iPhone at the push of a button: TaxMagic is featured on TechCrunch

• Mint, the popular financial website, is getting more features out of the door: you can now watch every penny in your account on the go with it’s iPhone application. featured on TechCrunch

• Omiture is extending its SiteCatalyst measurement tool to native iPhone applications. Some other analytics suites also offer this service on iPhone

• USA Today redesigned its iPhone news portal: and it is a lot prettier (screenshots on VentureBeat)

You see the trends:

• changes are everywhere, big changes and small changes
• people need to have fun no matter what
• it’s all going to be the mobile

Have a fun and changing holiday season!

Tags: 2008, Add new tag, change, getting mobile, mobile, web in general