Mobile agent

OpenMoko is something I’ve been particularly excited about since I first heard about the project. I’ve seen the phone in action, it is very raw from the user experience perspective, but what excites me most about FIC’s venture into mobile phones is not the neo1973 per say, rather, its how Sean Moss-Pultz and the rest of the OpenMoko crew intend to do with the phone - turn it into a platform and eventually create an ecology around that platform that others can play in. There’s a good presentation about this from a few months ago:

http://www.openmoko.com/files/OpenMoko_Amsterdam.pdf

What are you doing right now? Stuck in a class? Out at the club? Eating chimichangas? Beer pong? Playing the tuba? Holding your friend’s hair while she hurls from that 7th Jager shot? Friends and strangers want to know!

Help your camera phone take over your life and join the 24 Hour Me Project. http://apps.facebook.com/twentyfourhourme/.

It’s a Facebook app that allows you to truly express your vanity by chronicling the awesome moments and the excruciating minutia of your life by posting photos, videos, audio, and text notes directly via your mobile phones (or your email, but that’s less fun). Your friends can see what’s up with you RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT! Or look back in your archives and see what else is going on in your day, or your month, or year, or beyond!

Update your Facebook status from your phone!

Tag your posts with a location, and friends and others can see on a map what else is happening in that area!

If you don’t join us, you might be a virgin.

My friends and I were on a church retreat and whenever someone asked what time it was, they’d be like, “I HAVE NO IDEA, I DONT HAVE MY PHONE!” Then we started making fun of ourselves by going, “What’s your last name?” “I don’t know, I don’t have my phone.”

I actually don’t rely 100% on my phone. My friend just invited me to this group because one time at a party we were playing Sardines…and we were using them to look for the hiding person!

Mobile phones (otherwise known as cell phones in some parts of the world) are revolutionising communications across the globe, more so in developing countries where landline infrastructure is lacking in many rural (and some urban) areas. Mobile phones represent the only means of communication for hundreds of millions of people

At the same time, mobiles have opened up huge economic opportunities for their owners. They can now be more easily contacted when work is available, they can use them to advertise their services, receive market prices, job information, and so on. Others now make a living ’sharing’ their phones and charging non-owners to make calls. Some make a living charging phone batteries, selling top-up vouchers, or covers and chargers

If you’re interested in how mobile phones, used socially, are changing the face of the planet - and in particular developing countries - then let’s share news, experiences and knowledge

With an increasing interest, and momentum, in this area right now, this is a great time to get connected with fellow Group members - researchers, practitioners, bloggers, ICT professionals, developers, authors and members of the general public all interested in this field.