We’re on holiday this week, so we’re only checking in intermittently. However, I’ve got the chance to catch up on some back reading (as this reduces my stress this does count as a vacation task) and wanted to point out some interesting tidbits.
The Nokia Magnifier is free software that lets you use the camera as a virtual magnifying glass. I love the concept, though I’m amused that devices that have notoriously small text are being used to magnify text elsewhere.
One of the best story-tellers in the mobile phone strategy business is Tomi Ahonen. I got from him that joke (parable?) about how to tell your age based on your text use. While I don’t always agree with his statistics or reasoning, he’s a great person to pay attention to. Last month he posted My Master and Me: Confessions of a Mobile Phone; it’s a good read. Do be sure to look for the points of failure in a typical phone day that are taken in stride.
Ajit Jaokar has started talking about the Internet of Things and the technologies needed to make it happen. He’s not the first to write of this, but his words have a lot of visibility in the industry. And I think this sort of “Internet” is emerging already.
Okay, I’ve got much of that cleared off my plate. Back to vacation.