MobHappy

The last update in this ongoing series was back in March, but things roll on. The Page One story in Saturday’s WSJ highlighted just how many stupid perps are getting busted because they can’t resist taking photos of themselves in the act with their cameraphones. A prosecutor in the town of Nashua, New Hampshire says [...]

I’m still here in Amsterdam at Nokia World, and listened to an interesting talk this morning from Joe Paradiso, who heads up the Responsive Environments Group at MIT’s famous media lab. The group works on building all sorts of sensor devices and networks, and devising new ways to blend the real and virtual worlds. They [...]

Sunday’s New York Times had a slightly odd piece about the mobile web. I struggled a little bit to figure out exactly what the author’s point was, though I guess his closing sentence settles it up somewhat: “For now, widespread use of the mobile Web remains both far off and inevitable.” Feel free to agree [...]

The inimitable Alfie Dennen and his posse over at moblog:tech have proved their fleet-of-footness before, but they’ve got a new tech offering that makes it even easier for clients to install their own standalone moblog on their own site. moblog:tech’s best-known offering is the moblogUK site and community, and most of the work it’s done [...]

From BusinessWeek – Will Email Really Be the Next Social Network?: That’s what Saul Hansell suggests in his blog post about Google and Yahoo leveraging their email systems to create social networks. On the surface, it makes a lot of sense, given the huge numbers of email accounts and the wealth of personal data locked [...]

Back in May, Russell posted about MyFootballClub, which was aiming to get a bunch of money together from football fans to buy a side, and then let the contributing fans have a say in running the club and picking the team. After raising some money and talking to several teams, MyFC last week announced it [...]

I’ve written before about how technology has a habit of de-skilling us. For instance, I find it almost impossible to navigate without a GPS device these days. I also think I know my way round Silicon Valley from the half dozen trips I make every year (without GPS) better than I know my way around [...]

We’re always glad to share good news about our site stats, but there’s some depressing parts we tend to ignore as well — like the fact that (thanks to search traffic), some of the most popular individual posts on MH are various posts we’ve put up in the past about happy slapping, the idiotic practice [...]