Thursday, January 15, 2004

WinkSite Sidebar Got my WinkSite moblog into my sidebar. I guess it looks painfully obvious. Kewl thing is it's a Javascript (or I should say ECMAScript) that writes an iframe tag that calls a ColdFusion page. The WINKsite emulator then reads my Radio RSS feed and spits it out. So my blog calls the WINKsite moblog, which calls stuff from my blog again. 10:59:33 PM      Google It!   trackback []   comment []

	Thursday, January 08, 2004

WINKsite UPDATE OK, the great people at WINKsite (Wireless Ink) have got their service viewable on JPHONE!! Subscribed to Joi Ito and Gen Kanai's RSS feeds. I named my moblog site Ore No MoBuloggu. Here are access methods: URL : http://winksite.com/chriskk/mobuloggu WINKsite ID #2510 Previous post: Keitai RSS reader 2:58:34 AM      Google It!   trackback []   comment []

Mobile FeliCa Got an update from Lars (Wireless Watch Japan) about NTT DoCoMo's "Felica" integration into some handsets. See the Wireless Watch Japan's article w/ links to streaming video clip. My Previous posts: eMoney = iMode Suica Suica (JR East / Sony) 2:49:16 AM      Google It!   trackback []   comment []

	Thursday, January 01, 2004

Keitai RSS reader A couple of posts ago I made a todo list, which included coding a Keitai RSS reader. I was gonna do it in ColdFusion, of course. WINKsite beat me to the punch and in ColdFusion too! I tried out their service, but unfortunately I can't access it from my Vodafone keitai. Normally I wouldn't have tried again and probably forgotten about the site, but an interesting thing happened. When I signed up I mistakenly entered my email address as chriskk @ NO S P A M pixic. om, whithout the N O S P A M portion. A company rep emailed me using pixi.com and explained that I might've mistyped my address. WOW, great service! It made me feel like they wanted me as a user. A valued customer! Now they're helping me so that I can actually see their service through my keitai. They're also a ColdFusion house. Another major plus. Some links to help with getting my Sanyo J-SA05 Vodafone (formerly known as JPhone) work with their services: CGI variables of my unit List of keitai phones with browser version, supported image formats, and colors supported. Official Vodafone spec of Sanyo J-SA05 Another interesting note is that Adam Greenfield of V-2, the organizer of the 1st International Moblogging Conference (See previous blog post, and google search), is now on WINKsites' board of advisors (See v-2, and Wireless Ink PR page 12-30-2003 Announcement). 4:42:58 PM      Google It!   trackback []   comment []

	Sunday, December 28, 2003

eMoney = iMode Suica A post by Yuichi of KoKoRo blog regarding iMode Suica. I briefly posted about Suica in April,and at that time it seemed like this Suica DoCoMo thing was going to happen very soon. As the artcile that Yuichi linked to mentions, the service might start within a year or two. This could be the start of eMoney's success in Japan. Suica is soooooo convenient. I would love to purchase quick items using either the Suica card or my keitai. Things that would be useful for me as a quick purchase at the stations are: can coffee, breath mint/candy, and Newspaper/magazine. Another thing I might like is to dump my keitai photos to another media or online service, and pay for it w/ the Suica-Keitai eMoney. Photo source from ZDNet Japan Mobile. 2:39:09 AM      Google It!   trackback []   comment []

	Wednesday, December 17, 2003

GEEK To Do List Before the New Year Some peronsal projects that REALLY need to be pushed forward: Wiki - Here's a link to what kind of Wiki I'm thinking about. Wiki Blog - learn how they work together. Base technology behind them. moblog - view by category, date, time ... and maybe someday by mobile photo color. This is an idea I picked up from Andreas Schneider. Note: I bet he's got the first moblog w/ GPS on the planet! Keitai RSS reader - I would love to read RSS feeds on my commute to work on the train. This could be a web-based keitai site, or something that gets emailed. 2:45:36 AM      Google It!   trackback []   comment []

	Sunday, December 14, 2003

The Birth of Keitai Lights at Concerts I got to go to a MTV sponsored Sean Paul concert last month and witnessed an interesting twist to lighters at concerts. One of the opening bands, a Japanese reggae group, mentioned that the facility asked the crowd not to hold up lit lighters so he said use your keitais instead. It wasn't a huge concert, so I couldn't get a full effect, but I would imagine this would be pretty kewl in a stadium full of people. I couldn't imagine a rock band from the states saying this though ... 1:12:49 PM      Google It!   trackback []   comment []

	Tuesday, October 07, 2003

au design project At the Wireless Japan 2003, Au showed some style w/ the concept phones by Marc Newson. Checkout these new Infobar phones. The Nishikigoi, Ichimatsu, and Building. My vote's for Building. Sexy phones ... definitely. You can shoot movies, GPS, Java Brew, built-in flash for the digital camera, 144Kbps data, and make phone calls. These phones will be available in November. Now here's the dilemna ... new DoCoMo 505i series phone or the AU Building. We got one month to think about it. 4:06:12 AM      Google It!   trackback []   comment []