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How LBS should work…

Well somebody gets it !! Sometimes just surfing for some unrelated information brings up a really interesting nugget of information like this.

Clearly the guys in MV get it.. it’s all about context !!

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Chris Lightfoot remembered

As many of you know Chris Lightfoot, a prolific developer and “mash-up” artist behind some of the most exciting citizen focused website died last month. This mornings Times has his Obituary and I can’t think of a better tribute to Chris.

Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.

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iPhone – chipping away at the walls…

A very good article by Jo Best at silicon.com, on how the balance of power is shifting between network operators and mobile phone manufactures following the announcement of the iPhone.  Pixels Fic-Neo1973A small shift perhaps and we could be replacing one walled garden with another ? I amongst others are hopeful that we seen some momentum behind the OpenMoko Open Source phone project, which is coming soon !!

Written and submitted from the garden at home ( 16°C !!) , using my home 802.11 network.