On November 17th 2008, I was in London attending the excellent Future of Mobile conference. For those of you who read Dutch, please refer to my blogpost on Dutchcowgirls.

For those who don’t and would like to see some very nice video coverage I would like to recommend the series of video interviews by Mobile Industry Review on this event.

Here’s a video in which Tomi T Ahonen (at the end) and I (around 1min30) were interviewed (me and Tomi in the same video - a great honour!)

Other videos from Future of Mobile:

• Preview video
• Future of Mobile Walkabout 2 (featuring a location-obsessed Mike Stead of INQ along with conference panelist and mobile expert Helen Keegan)
• Future of Mobile Walkabout 3 (featuring, amongst others, Alfie Dennen, co-founder of Moblog)
• Interview Rich Miner, Google

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I have the G1 now for a week. It is a good phone which is still very new. This means that it doesn’t have the 10.000 apps like the iphone. Yet it already does some amazing things apart from seamless Gmail, Google Calander & Talk integration. The application that I keep going back to is Wikitude.

Wikitude is projects wikipedia location data on your screen on the camera input. You hold the camera level in front of you and see the world through its lens. Wikitude projects wiki data over it. As you turn the phone around you see the different points of interested projected in the screen. It a simple idea but very powerful. Here is the developer demoing their product:

My next tourist guide is in my phone. When I arrive I just hold my phone up and see what’s up, superimposed on the camera image.

It a good start. Its in the same category as Point and Find from Nokia. Here is Scobeizer checking it out. Point and Find works with image recognition instead of looking up data based on a GPS position like Wikitude. Point and Find is a QR-code like application. It scans an image and the get an action from it. Yet it can ’scan’ any image, even your house, and then go to your private website.

Both are examples of combining the real world with the virtual world. It will make the webbrowser based internet look very old.

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