Mobile, Web 2.0, Hype, Reality, and Openness: "How anyone that’s been paying attention to the evolution of mobile can say that mobile AJAX being something like web AJAX is a benefit is beyond me. Like the way that WML being kinda like HTML made that a raging success? No, I don’t think so. Saying that mobile AJAX is a good idea is putting the cart before the horse. AJAX on the web is a hack, every developer knows it’s a hack. What makes it an elegant and compelling hack is that AJAX based websites work with the browser the user already has installed on their desktop while increasing the usability of the web application. That’s the real “AJAX model” that the mobile world should be following: turning the handset and software the user already has into a more pleasant to use and useful device through clever programming."
About Me
Hello you. I'm the 35-year old Managing Director of Future Platforms, a software company which creates delightful mobile experiences. We work for lots of people you've heard of (Nokia, the BBC, Orange, and EMI) and many you won't have come across.
When I'm not doing that I read a lot, write here, and practice Aikido. I share my home in Brighton, a seaside town on the south coast of the UK, with four cats and a badger.
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tom dot hume at futureplatforms dot com
Recent Posts
- Sprint 41: review and retrospective
- Designers, Developers and QA: FP needs you!
- Mobile 2.0
- Mobile 2.0: Beyond Free, Panel
- Mobile 2.0: Priya Prakash, Nokia: Beyond Free
- Mobile 2.0: Regine Debatty on Mobile & Culture & Arts
- Mobile 2.0 Europe: Context Panel
- Mobile 2.0 Europe: Ted Morgan, Skyhook
- Mobile 2.0: Tom Raftery on Mobile Sustainability
- Mobile 2.0: Panel Discussion on openness
Recent Comments
- John W on Tracking UK Liberal Indecency
- Jim Hughes on LocoMatrix
- Tom Hume on UX Brighton: Ethnography
- Simon Johnson on UX Brighton: Ethnography
- Dominic Mitchell on Sprint 39 retrospective
- Tom Hume on Interview with Kazuo Chiba
- Joe Curran on Interview with Kazuo Chiba
- nedrichards on Links
- AG on MEX, Customer Research Methodology Must Be Enhanced To Close The Reality Gap: Rachel Hinman, Adaptive Path
- Sean Key on UX Brighton: Ethnography
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November 11, 2006
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Awesome words of wisdom...
Posted by: C. Enrique Ortiz | November 12, 2006 at 06:59 PM