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Robin is an innovator and entrepreneur. 1st prize winner in the Calling All Innovators competition 2009 in the Internet Innovation category for TechBuzz widget which Robin wrote. He co-founded Mippin.com (then called Mobizines) in 2004 which won Forum Nokia developer of the year for 2006/7. He founded a new startup, Alibro Ltd in Oct 2009, as a vehicle to further EyeMags.com

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Live from Nokia World

First thanks for all the kind remarks about us winning the calling all innovator internet innovation award 1st prize .... we're all very pleased with that result. It was a lot of hard work and its great to get something back. Meanwhile...

Dawn of a new age for software development for phone applications

This week Palm has finally released their SDK for Palm Pre development and Google have continued in their announcements that web technologies will be the eventual approach for mobile phone development. Nokia's WRT technology is now well established and grown signficantly...

N97 Homescreen Widgets

The N97 has a great new feature called Homescreen widgets. I thought I'd write a little here about what they do and what is involved in developing them. So yesterday we announced that we have just released 4 homescreen widgets for the N97 and here they are shown in the...

Porting Madness - square plug round hole.

I am amazed as the sudden interest in what's involved porting of applications between different manufacturers smart phones technologies because I really think something is being missed in many cases. Why would you want to port code between platforms? Why develop the...

Decline of US Newspapers

There was an interesting article in Techcrunch yesterday on the decline of the US Newspapers. Obviously we have heard this story for some years now but two things struck me. Firstly the declines are increasingly rapid and more importantly the decline are in online...

Automatically distinguishing between a phone and a PC on a website

Despite browsers on phones getting better and better there is still a need for Mobile formatted sites, if not just for lower end phones, but for those on high end phones that hate the waiting or the difficult navigation of the full web on a phone. Once you acccept this the...

Google's Mobile Strategy

I watched Eric Schmidt on Charlie Rose last night - very interesting. Nearly all the talk was about the importance of Mobile in Google's strategy. Eric explained how Mobile was taking over from the PC in Internet access and as he said he saw another billion...

Microsoft announce no real strategy for Phones using Cloud Computing

I read with interest Steve Ballmer's letter to staff on Techcrunch (the letter is near the end of the post). Its a carefully crafted document. It starts with the concept of "Software plus Services" - this is he wants to merge the cloud with the rich...

Making a viral video with a Nokia N95

We've just spent the last few days making a video to advertise some new social features we've just added to our product. We filmed it all using Nokia N95s and amazingly it worked incredibly well. We were concerned the quality would not be up to it but had no...

Cloud Cuckoo Land - the new Apps versus WebApps story

I wrote an post in March saying native were on the downturn and webapps were the answer to everything. Since then several things have happened: Apple released their AppStore in June and have had sales of $500m since then. Their apps are native...

S60 browser really does go IPhone

I was interested by Harri's blog on how to turn the N95 into an iPhone. He was altering the N95's user agent in order to make the sites think the N95 is an iPhone. He did not have total success, the reason why these sites do not support the N95 is because they mostly use an...