Where do we go from here?

The post- Elopocalypse angst has been getting me down over the past few days. It’s against my nature to spend a lot of time worrying about things that are decided, done, dusted. It was Democritus, I think, who said that only a fool worries about things over which he has no control, and I definitely identify with that.

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The Nokia Revolution.

Watching events unfold on the world stage, I find myself wondering exactly how much responsibility lies in the hands of the Finns. Once their goal was to put a phone into the hands of every citizen of the planet

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Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 24 Jan 2011

Front Page Gtk+ on MeeGo Handset bidders selected by GNOME Foundation Following a donation of a large sum of money by Nokia, the GNOME Foundation have selected Igalia to conduct the work: “We received a number of very interesting bids for the project, but Igalia's bid was the one that focused the most on integrating elements of Hildon into GTK+ upstream. This should mean easier porting of older Hildon/Maemo applications to the new MeeGo Handset platform, as well as easier porting of existing desktop GTK+ applications to the handset.” Claudio Saavedra, one of the developers working on the project, said “will spend the next months trying to bring the best from the Hildon user experience to upstream GTK+, to make sure that the good old Maemo applications can be easily ported to GTK+”. Read more Qt SDK 1.1 (Tech Preview) has Qt Quick/QML, Symbian, Maemo & desktop app support Nokia's Qt strategy take a step forward with a preview release of Qt SDK 1.1, which merges the numerous separate SDKs into a single install bundle: “The new SDK is a merge of the Nokia Qt SDK 1.0 and the last Qt SDK, based on Qt 4.7

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Community Building Guide

I wrote another guest article for the VisionMobile blog last week, which just went live yesterday, titled “Open Source community building: a guide to getting it right” . Exerpt: Community software development can be a powerful accelerator of adoption and development for your products, and can be a hugely rewarding experience. Working with existing community projects can save you time and money, allowing you to get to market faster, with a better product, than is otherwise possible.

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A Great Idea(pad)

I stood there in the queue to receive my Conference Freebee Idea-pad fully expecting to be turned away. These devices were for the devs to work on, no? The Nice Man from Intel who was handing out devices held out a box and asked “Which company are you from?” “Err, I’m not a company” I stammered.

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Sizing an Advertising Market

There was a decent amount of discussion about the virtual goods vs advertising numbers that Flurry released .

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Mobilize 2010 Wrapup

I was at Mobilize 2010 yesterday. Fantastic event! Congrats to the whole GigaOm team, great job

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Mobilize 2010 Wrapup

I was at Mobilize 2010 yesterday. Fantastic event! Congrats to the whole GigaOm team, great job.

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SmartMeter Sensor Network

I was at the SVC Wireless conference this weekend, and caught the Internet of Things panel. A decent amount of the conversation revolved around revamping the power grid. Despite hearing about “concerns about the new SmartMeters here in California” on the news a number of times, it wasn’t till this weekend that I learned that the SmartMeters are a mesh sensor network .

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Android Numbers Game

As far as number of handsets out in the market go Android has been wonderfully successful .

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