Robert Scoble did an Interview with Sumit Agarwal, product manager for mobile at Google. It provides a good overview of the mobile search services Google provides in the US via Voice or SMS. The simplicity of the services is cool. As well as the integration with the more complicated services.

Hmmmm, maybe SPRXmobile should build a voice interface in a new version of the omroep application so you can find and listen to your shows hands free… You know, for when you are driving… Or am I the only one that listens to video’s on the road?

Seriously, voice interfacing is not being used enough yet and is important on mobile just as mobile games which you can play with just your thumb.

The video is best in the first 15 minutes.

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Watch the Android Develeopment Camp Amsterdam live recorded stream here. It was a great event, full, inspiring and great networking.

Hear people from Wikitude (at 00:16 and my Fav), PicSsay (at 00:45), Twitli (at @00:57) and ShopSavvy (at 1:27) talk about their apps. Its one big stream, quality is not high but doable. Please skip me set the stream up in the first 10 minutes of the video…

Live TV : Ustream

SPRX initiative, organized together with:
Peter Robinett - @pr1001 - http://www.bubblefoundry.com/
Yuri van Geest - @vangeest - http://yuri.typepad.com/
Martijn Pannevis - @panman - http://martijnpannevis.nl/
Maarten den Braber - @mdbraber - http://maartendenbraber.com/

And thanks to MoMo Amsterdam, T-mobile and Google.

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Useless but fun

Via Bruce, who wonders what happens when snow crashes.

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Just scan the QR-code on the grave stone and see the profile of the person, including pictures, video and who else visited the grave recently. It sounds weird but is it? They do it in Japan already:

SPRXmobile is doing a national campaign in the Netherlands with the Governamental Food Authority (Voedingscentrum) including a billboard campaign with QR code and believes in 2009 QR-codes will take off.

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Me thinks Augmented Reality will take off in 2009, especially on the iphone.

Via Bruce

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Merry SPRXmas!
Take a peek at the SPRXmas party video

Don’t miss the end…
http://www.sprxmobile.com/merry-sprxmas/

Also on the iPhone:
http://tinyurl.com/SPRXmasi
Or text/sms “sprxmasi” tot 2002

And most other mobile devices:
http://tinyurl.com/SPRXmas
Or text/sms “sprxmas” tot 2002

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Just tried out a new service called 12 seconds. It let’s you make mini clips of 12 seconds(duh..) and post it to twitter. Also they have an iPhone app. I love that they limited the videos to 12 seconds. Just a new handy tool to distribute micro video content.

I believe this service to have a bright future!

Check out the test clip:

Testing 12 seconds.. I love it!!!! on 12seconds.tv

Here is the iPhone demo:

iphone app for 12seconds.tv from Sol Lipman on Vimeo.

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Yesterday the Uitzendinggemist mobile application was launched. The web version of Uitzendinggemist (which means means missed broadcasts) contains most of the broadcasts from the Dutch PBS (omroepen). It is a Video On Demand platform. The mobile client streams the top 10 of the day.

In the video Raimo van der Klein from SPRXmobile explains how the application works. The camera didn’t focus that much on the phone yet you still get the idea.

Get the application by texting “GEMIST” to 3333 or go to http://m.omroep.nl/gemist on your mobile. Rights management prevents the video’s to work out side of Holland. Also make sure that you operator contract covers video streams for a reasonable fee.

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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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