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A clip of our apartment in Helsinki, the name of the game is pipe renovation. Quite happy not to have been there for the last month. Hopefully they’ll stick to the timetable and get it finished before Christmas..

This is an idea that hit me yesterday. Could eye-ball tracking and visitor usage tracking (à la Crazy Egg) be used to help create a clutter free way to browse on mobile phones? Most sites (yes, including this one) are cluttered with if not completely irrelevant, at least somewhat unnecessary information. Ads, sidebars and widgets […]

I have two applications running at all times on my laptop; these are Firefox and Outlook. Both of them are communication tools, but I’m thinking that one of them is quite under utilized. IMAP and SMTP (the protocols for mail delivery) could be harnessed do so much more than just mail delivery. My inbox lists […]

Wow, with over 2 month since the last post, I feel obligated to write an update on recent events. Seems like my blogging activity pretty much correlates with real-life happenings, i.e. I write less when I’m otherwise busy. I hope that’ll change.
Anyway, a couple of things have happened since my last post.
First of all, […]

Excellent. See here for more information. In this post I’m claiming my blog.

I’ve done some searching for statistics on different types mobile platforms and their current global uptake. Here is a what I’ve found.

Platform
Amount(millions)
Notes

Java
700M
Total shipped, end of 2005Most phones are feature phones, a fact that is reflected in this figure.I wonder what the MIDP 1/2 split is?

Flash Lite
77M
Total shipped, Q1 2006This figure is based mostly on the […]

I’ve been running Windows Vista beta 2 for a couple of days, and one thing I like about it is the sidebar with its user-definable gadets. The sidebar gadgets are in all simplicity applications built out of HTML, JavaScript and CSS (very ajaxy by definition). Individual gadgets can be dragged out of the sidebar and […]

The Ministry of transport and communications has completed its annual report of the Finnish mobile services market. Here is a quick summary for 2005:

2.8B SMS messages (+29%)
14.4M MMS messages (4 M€)
Total value of market: 284 M€ (+16%, SMS’s account for 178 M€/+13%)
Data services market worth 30 M€ (+43%)
Content services worth 71 M€ (+16%)
Monthly ARPU 27.2€ […]

Naked Conversations, by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, is the book to read if your about to start a corporate blog. Nah, you should grab yourself a copy and read it anyway. Filled with examples, and do’s and dont’s of corporate blogging, it is a gem.
Enough of the praise. Partly inspired by the book, we’ve […]