Cheers Neil :)

Oh cool. I love the Jesus army :)

".. MUCH cheaper than printing them... The publisher and author can get a fair return on a book that costs MUCH LESS than traditional paper printed books. And the reader... gets original, exciting, new content ... released direct to mobile."

"Brought together by a love for farming and a general concern for lack of rural representation in today's underground music scene"

Rupert hasn't changed since the age of 13. Good on him.

Now *thats* how to end a talk :)

"And yet, and yet, I hear people say - Yeah but in the UK marketers are justing starting to understand the internet let alone the mobile. Well my answer to that is don't these people read? Are there not supposed to be heads of insight and stuff?"

Interesting chap doing sick things to tie MySQL and Amazon S3 together

"Our greatest challenge is consumer awareness. We know more people would donate cell phones if they knew the simple act of dropping their old phone in a collection box benefited both the environment and a worthy cause like March of Dimes."

Interview with Kyocera's design director: "The difference between universal UI and custom UI is becoming more apparent in the phone experience"

"A key architecture decision that affects user experience is where to store data and application logic. "

A whole blog about mobile video streaming... it's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it...

Not that research on participation-by-text by a company that provides participation-by-text can be considered completely unbiased...

More on comics as a tool for expressing UI

"New sounds... compete with existing environmental sounds... Designers must find sounds that do not become tired-sounding when we hear them often."

"A QA team should have as much power as they can get because they are the last rational review before stuff goes into production.". I'm having this argument with myself at the moment...

"One anti-pattern that you want to look out for is in prioritizing the majority of the tasks as “Must”. If most of the features are prioritized the same, it is as good as not having a prioritization at all."

Live action "breakout" in a cinema - lovely :)

Increasingly interesting. How long before we see a framework which just does the horizontal-scaling thing from the get-go?

Reactions to problems during development; I've seen (or done) all of these...

Like it says...

Nice technique, though only really appropriate for services which benefit from lots of user attention - ad-driven or supported apps, for instance, will almost by definition have areas the user doesn't care about ;)

Battery and voice top the list... but then wi-fi and 3G are the next two features, well over size.

"77% of consumers prefer to do business with companies offering self-service and almost all (92%) believe that adding mobile devices among existing services like ATMs and Internet will help improve overall service experience."

Some fantastic gems in here about the realities of rolling out products. Thoroughly recommended.

"I wonder if we have higher expectations of interfaces that feel more natural"

"Conversation" is the one that stands out for me :)