Anders Lindh <alindh@iki.fi>
the mobile experience
Convergence, mobility, related technologies & development and random thoughts related to mobility and the mobile web.

Archive for December, 2005

Better late than never

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

Something I’ve been waiting for quite some time is about to happen. The Finnish parliament decided yesterday that handset subsidizing will be legal starting April 1, 2006. The law specifies the max contract period (2 years), and handset locking is allowed (but must be removed if demanded after the contract has expired). Curiously, carriers can […]

Scalability matters

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

Kevin Burton over at Feed Blog has some great thoughts regarding scalability for web 2.0 companies in response to Om Maliks quote:
I think most start-ups actually don’t take that into account, and pay the price as they grow really big really fast. Early hiccups at TypePad were a case in point. Having had the financial […]

Ruby

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

Been reading up on stuff related to Ruby and Ruby on rails. Totally rocks. Seems to solve many of the problems we tackle at FlyerOne on daily basis. I’d love to see something similiar being used for mobile application development, not just web based apps.
See here for an excellent, interactive, Ruby tutorial. The rails […]

Notebook category

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

Added this new notebook category for all misc. stuff that might not be related to mobility. Items posted under this category will not show up on the first page or feeds (thanks to the Category Visibility plugin for WordPress).