MY MOBILE EXPERIM

ENT

Overview

1.Mobile technology

2.Web services

3.Power of combination

4.Das experiment

5.Conclusion

MOBILE TECHNOLO

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Mobile Interaction with user?

1.SMS / MMS ( MAIL ) Gateway f.e. 3030, plazZza, ... often with wap push

Prossimple, push, adaptation people & tech

Conslimited possibilities, expensive to get shortcode (hitcode plazZza), expensive for user, not easy to use if you provide an extensive feature set.

Mobile Interaction with user?

2. Mobile website f.e. www.flickr.com/mob, http://www.google.com/xhtml

Prossimple & cheap to develop, all new phones have browser, standardConsconfiguration phone, screensize?, type in URL, usability (can’t fully rely on controls), Thin client, No Push

Mobile Interaction with user?

3. Mobile Application f.e. Gmail client, ShoZu, Lifeblogger

Prosuse phone controls (camera – calerdar - ...), push, easy access, fast, thick client, extensibleConsconfiguration phone, screensize?, type in URL, usability (can’t fully rely on controls), Thin client, No Push, development

WEBSERVICES

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What is a web service?

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What is a web service?

Examples:

• Facebookhttp://www.pickdee.com/facebook/

• Flickr- retrievr

• Amazon- smugsmug

• ...

POWERO

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COMBINATION

Opportunity

• A lot of free services on the web

• Use existing web services in your own project

• Focus on your core business

• My project used several different services together:wordpress – google maps – flickr – zonetag – youtube – blip.tv – mobyexplorer – eyespot

• Fast & Simple development

DAS4.

EXPERIMENT

5.CONCLUSI

ON

What did I (& i-merge) learn?

• Extremely fast development if you use existing services

• Mobile technology is getting ready for real interaction with the user. Photo, video, location-based

• Geotagging is going to be fun to do campagnes with. The possibilities are endless.

• Roaming, data-traffic is extremely expensive.

• In the future everyone can be a journalist

Creative Commons photos used

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/pankaj/271297262/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerbooktrance/80004233/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/limemintcooler/235934966/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/graylight/261480919/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/naveenjamal/148060256/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/197768962/