the least significant bit

Cool features you could add to the new iPod touch once it got hacked and allows any code to run on it:

• Share your music library via Wi-Fi with all other iPod touch and iPhone users
• Implement a client for Pandora (www.pandora.com) so that you can listen to it whenever you have Internet connectivity
• Introduce cool ’social networking’ features like alerting you when other iPod users with similar music taste are close-by

Any additional ideas?

Do you know twitter.com?

Wikipedia says:

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) via SMS, instant messaging, the Twitter website, or an application such as Twitterrific. Twitter was founded in October 2006 by San Francisco start-up company Obvious Corp.
Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and also instantly delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends (delivery to everyone is the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, instant messaging, SMS, RSS, or through an application. For SMS, currently three gateway numbers are available: short codes for the USA and Canada and a UK number for international use. While the Twitter service is free, posting and receiving updates via SMS may incur charges from the wireless carrier.

Twitter is intended to be text-only, however, I have spent a few hours to write an application which allows to take a photo from your iSight and publish it on twitter together with your text.

You can download the application right here: http://datenmafia.org/phototwitter/
Since it is a Java application it should work on the most common platforms, however, I have only tested it on Mac OS X yet.

Please feel free to play around with it and post your feedback.

If you haven’t seen Google Maps Street View yet, I would strongly recommend to try it. Awesome!

The CCC just released the audio and video recordings of the 23rd Chaos Communication Congress. More information can be found on the CCC Events Weblog.

Since I had quite a lot of time to read during the last few weeks, I decided to have a look at ‘Mobile Web 2.0: The Innovator’s Guide to Developing and Marketing Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Applications’ by Ajit Jaokar and Tony Fish.
For me, the first 90-100 pages were a bit boring to read since it was just general blah about what is web 2.0, ‘content is king’ and stuff like that. After this part, it gets more interesting since the reader gets a good overview of the current situation (both technical and non-technical) in the area of mobile web/widgets/AJAX/LBS etc.
The third part of the book deals with topics like ‘how to set up a business in the mobile sector’ or ‘how to partner with mobile network operators’ (also quite interesting to read) etc.

• Organize contacts in groups in order to make the contact list more concise
• Ability to send Push-To-Talk voice messages to individual users or a group
• Possibility to send messages also if the user is not online at the moment
• Notification if a specific user becomes available (so i don’t have to check the contact list manually every few minutes to see if the person I need to talk to is online)
• Auto-Away if screensaver is activated
• Symbian and/or J2ME version of Skype Mobile + seamless collaboration between the Skype client on my mobile phone and on the computer (e.g. automatically route all messages/calls to my phone if I am not at the computer)

Here’s an interesting article about AJAX security issues: click

Symbian is releasing Ruby for Symbian OS to the Open Source software developer community.
More information about that can be found here.

Researchers of Carnegie Mellon University have managed to teach a computer to recognize and transform 2D images into 3D.

I’ve just finished reading the book ‘Pro J2ME Polish‘ and I’m really surprised about how comfortable it is to develop state of the art MIDlets with J2ME Polish. If you’re into J2ME programming but have not had a closer look on J2ME Polish yet I strongly recommend to read this book since it is well written and gives a good overview about the potential of this collection of tools.
I’m quite confident that it would be a good idea to use it for the development process of the GPS::Tron mobile client.
If you’re new to J2ME Polish, just have a look at the website.