Jim Liddle

At a recent Skills Matter event in the UK Goyko Adzic presented  for over an hour on Space Based programming in .Net. The slides are embedded below, but as this blog is syndicated and sometimes the slides get stripped out, you can find them here. Space Based Programming View more presentations from gojkoadzic. You can also view the Video of the presentation directly on Goyko’s blog here. As a follow up to GigaSpaces XAP for .net I’d suggest you look at: Space Task and Distributed Space Tasks also known as Map Reduce in XAP.NET .NET local cache is out Ultra fast local cache implementation for .NET Event listener container abstraction for .NET XAP.NET speaks Java? ... (more)

Jim Liddle's Symbian Blog: Is the "Mobile Web" Already With Us ?

Mobile Web already with us? 1999 was the year that web guru Jakob Nielsen predicted that the mobile web would be really with us...well that never really happened and WAP/WML never really took off, but it could be argued the mobile web is right here right now, due to the powerful smart mobile devices that we are now using. These re-render existing sites, and the power of 3G makes mobile browsing not only fun, but practical. Still, not all site translate well to the smaller mobile device screen. So, what makes a mobile friendly site? Well that is why the W3C has launched the mobile ... (more)

Now That the Mobile Internet Is Widely Available, Do Users Want It?

Going Beyond User Generated Software: Web 2.0 and the Pragmatic Semantic Web It seems that users are still not adopting the mobile internet as widely as otherwise reported or thought.  According to a research of 1500 consumers by research group TNS, 73% of people do not take advantage of the mobility factor of the Internet even when they have the ability to do so. Why you may ask ?  According to TNS, the reasons cited by respondents are: -  Frustration at slow loading pages - 38% -  Navigation problem from mobile devices - 27% -  Website being unavailable - 25% The survey, commissi... (more)

Yahoo! Hack Day Here in London

Jim Liddle's Blog This coming Saturday (16th June) will be Yahoo! Hack Day here in London, and a few members of my buddy's company (the Nestoria team) will be on hand. But rather than just attending, they though it might be a bit of fun if they tried to subvert the event and turn it into their own hack contest. As such, they are delighted to present 'The quasi-official Nestoria Hack contest' to be held at Yahoo! Hack Day. One important note, in the true hacker spirit this contest is totally unsanctioned by Yahoo! and the BBC (the two gracious hosts at Hack Day). The prize is neve... (more)

The PC Web Still Rules...But the Mobile Web Is Catching Up

Jim Liddle's Blog Search Brands Still Offer Stronger Reach on PCs According to inaugural results from the MobileWeb Metrix service, The Weather Channel, Yahoo! Weather and AccuWeather achieved mobile reach that outpaced their PC reach. All three sites had mobile-to-PC reach index scores above 120, pointing to significantly stronger reach among mobile Web users than among PC Web users (see Table 1). With an index of 190, ESPN also has stronger reach among mobile Web users. By comparison, Google Search and Yahoo! Search have index scores of 23 and 25, respectively, indicating that ... (more)