Macromedia seem to have shifted up its mobile plans a gear - first with the BREW/Flash announcement (though I note that it's early days and they're not planning a launch until "next year"), and then with their acquisition of Mobile Innovations.

A Firm Grip On Handset Design: "he saw Chinese cell-phone makers on the rise, but he found their handset designs uninspiring."

Playing with that NEC I-mode handset confirmed this for me; the external design and data services on the handset are lovely, but the rest of the UI needs urgent assistance if these guys are going to sell successfully into Europe.

The Fix Online urge you to send banal postcards to dictators: "anyone can send a letter to a dictator saying how dare you do this to fellow humans you disgusting man/men etc,etc…. The UN can try them in the war crimes court but if you really want to get to them. Really punish them, then you need to send them banal postcards for no reason."

Incredibly well-researched and incisive article on casual gaming: "But there’s a growing movement of simpler, smaller, much less flashy games that don’t require long periods of deep gameplay, called casual games, that promise to be even bigger."

See Me TV: "See Me TV is set to become the ultimate reality channel - providing an opportunity for 3 customers to shine in front a potential audience of millions.

Each time a clip is downloaded by a 3 customer the performer gets paid 1p. With a potential audience of 3.2 million, the most popular clips from contributors could make thousands of pounds worth of cash."

Interesting things about this:

1. It's 3 making the most of one of their big differentiators: video.
2. The payments are being made by PayPal, not through the existing billing relationship 3 have with their customers.

But how are they going to stop the inevitable abuse of the service?