http://phobeo.com/blog "..though this be madness, yet there's method in't.." Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:59:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I uploaded my slides for the yahoo widgets presentation in Webcamp.ro in slideshare, but I seem to be unable to make a presentation that works here: | View | Upload your own Of course, while i make this work, you can always download the PPT directly here It was a really good ... http://phobeo.com/blog/2008/07/14/slides-from-webcamp/ got a presentation to give next week at Webcamp talking about mobile development (courtesy of YDN). They have tracks on SEO, widgets and Web 3.0 (are we on 3.0 already?), but I think the one I'm more interested in is on Romanian-specific web issues... It's always good to hear how ... http://phobeo.com/blog/2008/07/01/talking-at-webcamp08-in-romania/ wow! this week is being pretty intense: first we had BBC mashed event, today was the searchmonkey hacking evening and tomorrow is our internal Yahoo! hackday. Lots of things to do, little time to post... I did a Fireagle widget hack in Mashed, that I couldn't get completely running because I started ... http://phobeo.com/blog/2008/06/25/hackday-time/ anybody else going to Mashed08 this weekend? There are still tickets left! I will drop by on Saturday and still thinking about whether to go for a hack or not... the idea of doing the nokia n95-based version of a polar pedometer (with automatic integration with mapmyrun.com) is still in the ... http://phobeo.com/blog/2008/06/18/ready-to-be-mashed/ just a quick note/heads-up that Yahoo! Mobile team is interviewing for their summer internships. There are still possibilities of getting your CV in so if you're an university student and you're interested in working with our team to make oneSearch kick axx big time in Europe, I think it's worth ... http://phobeo.com/blog/2008/05/28/want-to-intern-at-yahoo-mobile/ Si estas aun en horario de trabajo, por favor no sigas este link ni veas este video... y por supuesto ni se te ocurra mirar otras cosas que la gente esta haciendo con Phun, "a 2D physics sandbox"... impresionante! Esto es lo mas entretenido que he visto para ensenyar fisica desde ... http://phobeo.com/blog/2008/05/08/no-juegues-con-phun/ So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia [...] represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought. [...] And television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. Put another way, now that we have a unit, that's ... http://phobeo.com/blog/2008/04/30/thought-provoking-quote-social-surplus/ If you happen to be in Barcelona next week, and don't have anything interesting to spend the Monday night with, I will be talking about mobile web development and the Yahoo Mobile platform on the 5th of May, in the Forum Nokia & MobileMonday Event in Barcelona. There are also ... http://phobeo.com/blog/2008/04/29/mobile-development-with-forum-nokia-mobilemonday-barcelona/ ... como demuestra el hecho que desde que los de TED pusieron las charlas descargables directamente al IPod, el trayecto de autobus a la oficina es mucho mas corto... http://phobeo.com/blog/2008/04/28/el-tiempo-es-relativo/ Cathy sent me a doc with recent coverage about OverTheAir that includes this interview with Matthew, the master of all things mobile at BBC ;) Very interesting read (especially if you're looking into "aggregating mobile content", or however they call it these days) Interview: Matthew Postgate (via MocoNews) This actually reminds me ... http://phobeo.com/blog/2008/04/18/random-thoughts-on-mobile-content/