Blog of a web citizen

Archive for March, 2009

What will mobile internet look like?

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

mobileinternet

It started with handhelds

I always loved handhelds. I was one of the first ones who wasted all his money, made on a weekend postal job, on a PSION series 3 and later a Palm 3. Lots more followed and they became integrated with a phone and internet. With the coming of 3G, the iPhone and the google android devices, a user friendly mobile internet for the masses is near. But what will everyone use when mobile internet is widely available?
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Gum Gum – Content Licensing

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

where do you find good content?

Will content licensing be a great answer to all the bad rewrites or clueless tries.

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The single sign on dream

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

singlesignon

Open ID

The Open ID project is a great initiative. Imagine you can login into all of your application sites (facebook, google apps, vimeo, flickr, blogger, msn) with only one username and password.

Right now if I change my password for gmail I have to go through all my frequently used sites and change each password or I’ll forget or mix up logins. If you use OpenID you only have to change it in one place. Which is nice when you probably have at least 5 or more logins for different frequently used sites).

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Inspirational talk from Steve Jobs

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

steve

I heard stories about a control freak Steve Jobs and expected a detached from reality kind of person. But this speech makes me not only love the Apple brand but also admire the person.
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