Comments on: When is the collaborative mobile web coming?

By: Pablo

Pablo — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:17:06 +0000

Hugh, I was one of the two developers who worked on Gombu mobile, and I was not paid by Manuel Reyna, who was Tamara’s contact.
So legally, the code is mine, and I will be selling it to another company soon.

Thank you:

Pablo

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The mobile revolution starts now? « Web Tastings — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:19:59 +0000

[...] take shape, particularly in the context of the developing world? Christian Kreutz recently addressed this question in his blog, focusing on mobile use in the collaborative web of wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, etc., citing the [...]

By: ckreutz

ckreutz — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:08:24 +0000

@Hugh looks interesting. When will it be ready and what is behind it?

By: Hugh

Hugh — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:35:15 +0000

our new company gombu is developing tech and applications for exactly what you are describing: Mobile collaborative social media.
Hint – wifi, bluetooth, and handset camera figure prominantly.

By: ckreutz

ckreutz — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:59:06 +0000

Nice thoughts Sebastian. It reminds a bit of the beeping culture (http://mobileactive.org/mobile-phones-changing-r) that people use technology sometimes very different than planned. I guess there is still a wide gap to collaborate as easy with the mobile phone than with a normal personal computer. However I just read that:”There are an estimated half of a billion people in the world who surf the Net every day yet don’t own a computer.”
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/02/devices_for_the.php

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Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:33:09 +0000

[...] Christian Kreutz comes up with the natural question, “When is the collaborative mobile web coming?” on his crisscrossed.net blog. [...]

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:08:33 +0000

Interesting points. I think at this point the bottleneck are mainly devices: tiny keyboards might be ok for texting but certainly not for longer text. Screens and networks are getting better and better but the input devices are still the really bad. I hope that we will have some “guestures” that will enable us to input information in future much easier than today. E.g. shake your phone twice to accept a call, define your social network status and change it with a spinn of your device etc.

Then I think we have two waves
1) Get updated via mobile networks – have all the mobile services online: I see this happening already now. More and more people get their information over the mobile devices.

2) Interact via the web: I think that takes time. For the reasons you mentioned above but also from a social point: Every community has a lot of lurkers and you have to get into the habbit of being active in a community and not “just” comsume.

But I agree, it will come…