The second BarCamp Singapore will be held tomorrow! Will you be attending?

BarCamp Singapore II: Maps and Mobile will be held at the NUS Extension at Park Mall, near Dhoby Ghaut (beside the Fish & Co. Glass House?), from 630pm onwards.

Check out more details over at their wiki page.

Remember to also check out the presentations in the breakout sessions, from companies such as tenCube, widgeo.us and Mobile Sorcery.

Especially for those interested in developing mobile applications, do check out the presentation from Mobile Sorcery.

MoSync from Mobile Sorcery attempts to solve the porting issues faced by mobile application developers by presenting them with a common platform for application development. All application developers then need to do, is to maintain one single code base for their applications (no more keeping track of separate J2Me and Symbian versions) written using MoSync. Combined with an application profile database, MoSync will then be able to deploy the application to both J2ME and Symbian platforms, saving countless hours in contrast to regular porting and deployment.

(Disclaimer: I’m working with Mobile Sorcery.)

See you there!

(Feel free to drop me a comment if you’ll be attending, yup?)

Don’t get me wrong just from the title alone. Hey, I like the initiative. Wireless access everywhere? What’s not to like?

Unfortunately, I’ve just spent an hour or so just walking through countless wireless access zones in city and not been able to make use of a single one. Problem? No power. So while, yeah, technically we can all access the internet from any supporting establishment (and there are many, not that there aren’t), we still can’t feasibly do so if our devices (read: laptops) don’t have the juice to run.

So yes, Wireless@SG is only half the problem solved.

A multitude of fast-food joints and cafes touting FREE WIFI HERE!! isn’t going to do much if they don’t provide any power sockets for us mobile geeks to get our juice. Luckily, I found a friendly Starbucks with wifi AND power sockets, so, Go Starbucks!

So yup. While Wireless@SG is a great idea, I’m still waiting for Power@SG.

Here’s something to think about..

1. Think about your dream mobile application.
2. That one “killer” application that you always wanted to see on your mobile phone
3. Which language would you develop it in?

Current technical limitations notwithstanding..

C? C++? Java? Python? PHP? Ruby? .NET? Visual Basic? Assembly?

Thoughts?

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I realise I’ve been hearing a lot about mobile social networks lately. Most prominent of the lot, or at least of those that I’ve heard of, are twitter and jaiku.

Basically, a “mobile social network” is one that you can take part in, even from your mobile phone. So there go the many hours spent replying to posts in front of your PC. Now at least you can go out and catch some sun and get a real tan, instead of a cathode-ray or liquid-crystal one.

And it’s interesting how much buzz these services have created. There are people predicting the death of twitter while yet others defend its usefulness and claim that it improves their social lives. Others like Mike Butcher, predict that 2007 will be the year of mobile social networking. In fact, the whole industry’s spawned its own little acronymn, MoSoSo.

Personally, I didn’t quite catch onto the concept of this microblogging (tumblelogging?) thing at first. But it seems like mobile social networking could well be the next big thing. After all, twitter (why not twittr really?) is spawning all sorts of hybrid creations, like the twaiku and twapper. I’m totawwy amazed.

Will MoSoSos be the next big wave? Probably. Who knows? There’s already a decent list of upcoming mobile services over on the Wikipedia MoSoSo page. Up to a certain point though, there’ll probably be a shakeout and then we’ll see what’s left.

In other news, SMS remains popular.