Fossil Bluetooth watch: "The Fossil Caller ID watch with Bluetooth technology keeps you connected in style by combining a vintage analog/digital watch design with Bluetooth Wireless technology. It notifies you when your phone rings with a discreet vibrating sensation and showing the caller's name and/or number on the bright OLED display."

One of the things I've been meaning to do with the X10 kit I bought a while back is to play with the idea of Bluetooth as identity - i.e. my house knows when I'm at home because there's a Bluetooth signal for me present, and knows when I'm out when there isn't.

Via Devi, an interesting event at Brighton Photo Fringe: "Timothy Prus... will be placing his own photographs upon a wall of the gallery and all are invited to swap up to three of their own photographs for the same number of Prus’s. This is an excellent way to not only own a fabulous piece of photography but also for your photograph to join his ever expanding archive alongside pictures from all over the world."

MoMo London: Ray Anderson From Bango

1. Promotion and advertising

There are lots of ways to promote mobile content: viral, shortcodes, bar codes, mobile ads, mobile search, TV, web sites, print, direct URL, etc. Traditional text promotion (2001-2005) worked despite complexity. 2005: simpler calls to action. Now onwards: the Internet model (not sure what that means), focusing on users familiar with mobile browsing (avoiding wastage, say); mobile ad models; routing around operators for approval etc. More purchasing of search terms (which Orange and Yahoo have apparently been collaborating on).

2. Discovery and response

Ray presents a slightly suspect "history of the URI" showing how we're familiar with typing in sky.com rather than http://blah:123/fred?wilma=freddy#1234

Similarly, technical challenges on the mobile web are starting to be overcome. Walled gardens are coming down. Sites getting better. Tariffs become more conducive.

On the educational side, things are moving slower.

He foresees a future where phones that don't work with popular sites (e.g. Myspace or Google I guess) are returned to vendors as broken.

Nokia.com doesn't work on a phone! These mobile companies don't walk the talk...

3. Spreading the goodness

What happens if users could share content with friends? a la early days of the web, with the coffee machine hooked up to the net, fish tanks, etc. Operators can't do this across operators, content providers can't do it across content providers.

WAP.com project: a bit like backflip, deli.cio.us, etc. Encourages sharing of "waplists": lists of links.

MoMo London: Jan Standal, Director Project Management, Opera

Opera Mini has had 6m unique users since launch in January 2006, with 1.5bn web pages served so far. The average user downloads 8.3 pages/day. Similar sites to desktop usage apparently: email, news, community sites. But then he talks about the long tail which kinda contradicts this (err I think).

Big numbers, but in comparison to overall mobile data figures? It's the equivalent to a months worth of UK mobile internet usage, apparently.

Shows off Soonr, with transcoding of a Powerpoint presentation. Talks about widgets (who isn't? ;)) and shows off the Opera Widget Generator.

MoMo London: Barbara Ballard of Little Springs Design

I walked in late for this, but a few points from her talk:

1. Local applications (as opposed to browser-based ones) can enhance the UI which certain user needs mandate - via local storage, say.

2. Current browsers implement inconsistent standards and broken cookies. They also have a single-window metaphor for all browsing (as opposed to the tabbed or multi-window metaphors common on desktops). But I'd argue that there's a no-window interface on mobiles - these aren't WIMP UIs, they're menu-driven, and whilst we might borrow certain UI features (scroll-bars, say) from WIMP interfaces, we're not asking users to adopt a "windowed" mental model of apps etc.

3. "Where do browsers need to go?". Barbara pressed a few bad buttons here, talking about "user-generated mashups"... which seems to be her term for describing pulling elements of content together, a bit like portlets in the late 90s.

4. She talked about the advantages of mobile devices as input mechanisms, tying camera, sensor and location input into browsers and therefore rendering the desktop a poor cousin...

5. "Un-browsers" will come: local app and data logic, AJAX enabled, rich user input. Also mentioned the need for widgets on the phone. Interesting but IMHO only if they're bound deeply into the UI (i.e. not off an apps menu); and surely on the desktop widgets are all about finding needles in haystacks - niche bits of useful content? On the mobile where there's less content instantly accessible are they as relevant?