Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

Here's a new rule for conference presenters: lots of Powerpoint (or Keynote) text doesn't work at all on an IMAX screen. The huge screen batters the audience with words, and the message is lost in the medium.

Despite being battered by giant slides, I'm finding this one day event both fascinating and intriguing. In some cases people seem to be attempting to solve problems I thought we'd dealt with back in the early days of the mobile internet - especially around user responses to portal designs. It seems as though the operators are still pushing the same old myths about their users...

Still, there's a lot of useful work going on. I'm particularly impressed by the .mobi and W3C work on developing automated testing solutions for mobile web applications.

I'm also pleased that context has been a key concept in all the presentations. Context, on mobile at least, not content is king. I suspect I need to push the work we did back in 2000-1 in Hong Kong and Portugal at people again - there's a lot there that's still relevant today.

Future of Mobile is also a good place to try out the new LJ mobile client, with its integrated photo posting.

Processed image of a projector in a truck that was displaying images on the side of the Shell Centre in the South Bank.

South Bank, London
November 2007