Icy Icy Baby launches
Yeah!! Today in San Fran we launched IcyPole.
IcyPole is a Java app running on Nokia smart phones which automatically detects other IcyPole enabled mobile phones within your vicinity, using Bluetooth, and then proactively communicates with them to see if they have any content (music, videos, photos etc) you may like.
The really cool snazzy new no one has done before bit is that the whole thing is driven off the AgentArts recommendation engine which means that instead of having to search for music the system knows your profile, knows what you like and automatically alerts you to things it thinks you may like.
So you can walk down a street, catch a train or bus and just have the app running and be notified when there is music you might like nearby. You can then download it using the IcyPole application, view the profile of the person with the content etc. Best of all....the whole network runs over bluetooth so there is NO telco charges to be incurred when using it. Totally a distributed system with out of band communication.
We demo'd this app to Nokia in Finland in Feb and have done a few tweaks since then and showed it to a wider audience today.
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Thursday, June 24, 2004
Mobile Hide and SeekThis is fantastic..a great use of a mobile phone. What a great use for an expensive mobile and fun for the kids.
Monday, June 21, 2004
A while between drinks
Its been a while since I last posted and I guess the only reason I have is being fairly busy with 2 work projects and 1 personal project...all of which are launching/releasing this week.
As an example on Friday/Saturday I spent time coding Java J2ME (Bluetooth and music) for the Nokia mobile phone app we are building at work, PHP and MySQL for Playground Finder for myself and Cold Fusion and SQL Server for another work client. In between this were client meetings and strategic product meetings at work not to mention playing with the kids.
So its been hectic but it should all be finishing up this week. We launch with a client this week, are demoing the J2ME app at JavaOne in San Francisco on Monday and Playground Finder was finally released late late last night, still plenty to do but great progress on all fronts over the last 2 weeks.
More to come...in the meantime....if you are interested, visit Playground Finder and have a look around and a play.
Its been a while since I last posted and I guess the only reason I have is being fairly busy with 2 work projects and 1 personal project...all of which are launching/releasing this week.
As an example on Friday/Saturday I spent time coding Java J2ME (Bluetooth and music) for the Nokia mobile phone app we are building at work, PHP and MySQL for Playground Finder for myself and Cold Fusion and SQL Server for another work client. In between this were client meetings and strategic product meetings at work not to mention playing with the kids.
So its been hectic but it should all be finishing up this week. We launch with a client this week, are demoing the J2ME app at JavaOne in San Francisco on Monday and Playground Finder was finally released late late last night, still plenty to do but great progress on all fronts over the last 2 weeks.
More to come...in the meantime....if you are interested, visit Playground Finder and have a look around and a play.
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