mobile

ideas about mobile devices

  • iApplause Meter

    iApplause Meter

    We’ve all seen applause meters on TV shows (an elsewhere) to measure response to something. This is following the imminently foolproof logic that applause level = popularity. Thus, in a world of distributed audiences.. How do we measure popularity? How about an app that uses the built-in accelerometer to measure applause. You have an iPhone,…

  • Next Step iPhone

    Next Step iPhone

    I’ve been wondering for a while what the next next thing should be for the iPhone. If you think about where drops in hardware costs are going, you an start to see when certain capabilities start to virtually be free. That’s how we ended up with two cameras on each iPhone 4, as they are…

  • iPhone, therefore iAm

    iPhone, therefore iAm

    I’m sitting there this morning realizing how ubiquitous my cell phone has become, and I realized that for all of the smarts it contains, it’s really not using much of it unless I ask it to. Why doesn’t it do more? Why isn’t it studying me and learning what I want it to do? For…

  • What Was That Song?

    What Was That Song?

    I was having a chat with a friend about the effect of things moving towards free. There are cameras now that use the “free” storage space to capture photos continuously such that when you actually press the button, it can identify when you might have meant to take the picture (right before the Groom blinked)…

  • Outsource This!

    Outsource This!

    outsource glossary. provide the text for pop-up glossary terms forwebsites. they can brand. include text ads? upsell for branding? no ads? users can provide feedback and hone blurbs… faq too?

  • Shut-Itster.com

    Shut-Itster.com

    Sitting through a web conference hyping Web 2.0 and web communities, I realize (yet again) how much I am not that demographic. I have rarely ever chatted, posted to newsgroups, hung out on blogs, etc. So, with the proliferation of MySpace, Facebook and Friendster, why isn’t there a Shut-itster which would be a (parody) social…