Forum Nokia Web Talks

This weblog is about web technologies and news. Welcome to exchange your thoughts on the web, aka to me the big W. I am hoping to invite some guest and partners writer for this site. Therefore you may see multiple writers blogging here.

http://googledataapis.blogspot.com/2008/03/objective-c-library-brings-google-data.html

Dear Google, would you make Symbian C++ libraries too... :p

Yesterday, Forum Nokia Americas hosted a Web Runtime code camp. I was there the whole day and had wonderful discssions with developers. It was a good time but my legs hurted after standing the whole day.

More details and picutres about the code camp can be found at the wiki page here:
http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/FNA_CodeCamp_WRT 

Here is a series of blog exhange that I've found interesting. Let me put the timeline here.

Mr. Jason Calacanis, an entrepreneur and CEO of Mahalo, has posted a blog entry on tips to save money in a startup.

http://www.calacanis.com/2008/03/07/how-to-save-money-running-a-startup-17-really-good-tips/
 
Now there are some "interestng" tips and really take the saving money concept to the next level. A lot of Silicon Valley companies are probably doing these activities to thier employees. Though I don't know if all companies are doing these because of the same reason, saving moving. I would have thought many companies do these things because of competiting for talented engineers.The post is certainly educational.

Though one tip in the original post may have started a follow-up story from TechCrunch. The particular tip is “Fire people who are not workaholics…. come on folks, this is startup life, it’s not a game. go work at the post office or stabucks if you want balance in your life. For realz.” Mr. Calacanis has later updated this tip to a softer tone...

Any way, here is the TechCrunch reactions:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/07/calacanis-fires-people-who-have-a-life/

After the TechCruch's post, Mr. Calacanis has responsed back with another post explains his thoughts:

http://www.calacanis.com/2008/03/07/can-you-have-a-life-and-work-at-a-startup-company/

If I ever start a startup, I think the tips are good reference (with good intentions of course). One of the important things I learn is blogging is really PR work, and it can go either way. "With great power comes great responsbility -Spidy"...

Update 08.03.08 4:49pm The story is still going:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/08/startups-must-hire-the-right-people-and-watch-every-penny/

-W 

iPhone SDK is out. I really want to test drive it... First when I heard that you need a Mac to do development, I thought, no problem, I have a MacBook. Then when I read the fine prints... I will need 10.5 MacOS (Leopard) to run the SDK, when I am still on 10.4 (Tiger). An Leopard update is $129 currently... I guess I have to suck it up to have a taste of the SDK. Could this be another smart business move to force the Leopard sales?

Any way, it seems like techcrunch has posted an article on limitations of the iPhone SDK. I will just let you read it yourself:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/07/iphone-sdk-some-of-the-details-arent-great/

There are some interesting questions in this articles...

Will Apple allow 3rd party application to buy MP3 songs from Amazon?

Can someone writes a mashup application and supplies location data from iPhone to Yahoo FireEagle (Yahoo's location framework)? What about to Google Map?

To be fair, this is the first SDK for their first mobile phone. The features of this "first" SDK is quite well thought out. The video tutorials in iTune U are professionally done.

What can I say... the competition is on! Let's get to work!

-W 

I have just received an email on this event. This looks like a very exciting and interesting event. It will be free and with food!! See you there!

Home page of the event is: http://www.mashupcamp.com/ You can find the register page there.

Here is a screen capture of the email. 

-W

Recently...

• Access FN feeds and Ovi site via iGoogle full canvas
• Using the Internet my mobile way
• Skyfire and Hulu
• Articles on iPhone as SW platform.
• Bill Gates & Jerry Seinfeld - Shoe Circus Commercial
• Dirk Dagger And The Fallen Idol for N-Gage
• Mobile Web Wars Live Stream from Techcrunch
• Mobile Killer Applicaiton Found Already, you just don't know it! -- Application Download Store!
• Usability lesson from Mr. Gates: Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant
• Twitter - Not rocket science

Categories

• Daniel Rocha [1]
• General [1]
• Kevin Korpi [8]
• Riku Salminen [0]
• Srikanth B [0]
• Ung-Ping Tian [0]
• W. Seto [27]
• Web API [7]
• Web News [25]

Syndicate

• RSS 0.90
• RSS 1.0
• RSS 2.0
• Atom