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Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

Geekjunction — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:24:44 -0000

You can check out the iPhone App available on the App Store, iThread (under Business category), This is based on Crunchbase API.

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

Sal — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:55:56 -0000

no multitasking on the iPhone? weird. Reminds me of a Palm. Anyway, recently discovered Kinoma for Windows Mobile http://kinoma.com/play/ Very Very slick. All sorts of internet radio, youtube and Orb just to name a few.

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

Alan — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:50:37 -0000

another app to track your rides via blackberry (or nokia, etc.): http://www.sanoodi.com/gomo... says they have an iphone version coming

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

fredwilson — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:01:10 -0000

I read all the time on my mobilew chris but I don't use a feed reader (not
on mobile or on the web)

I rely on smart aggregators like techmeme, delicious popular, hacker news,
newsjunk, etc

They work great on my mobile

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

Chris Phenner — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:19:28 -0000

Pew's research says that on the "big web" that we (as consumers) most like to 1. email, 2. search and 3. read news, and among the "Top 10 Mobile List," I see no RSS or news-reading anywhere -- omission?. I like Viigo (for BBerry), and wanted to ask the list (if anyone's listening) if anyone has any alternative favorites.

Fred's more-than-entitled to "his list," but have we really skipped over reading in favor of streaming radio, or worse for BRICKBREAKER (also-ran default game for BBerry, so weak)? It's a great topic and comment stream, regardless.

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

Benjamin Nowack — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:47:55 -0000

Sorry for the late reply, I've been on vacation. The Twitter bot can be freely extended with user-defined commands[1] ("founder of X", "who acquired Y", etc). I just added one for "link to", "@cbbot, link to foodzie" should work now (I've reset the underlying RDF store this morning, many entries won't be available during the next couple of hours). Feel free to send me command requests (bengee on twitter) if you need something else.

[1] http://cb.semsol.org/pimp-m...

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

Gary — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:57:17 -0000

Coming with Android next month, scan a barcode and it will tell you the lowest price locally

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

Aramis — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 09:15:21 -0000

Internet radio (idea number 5) I'd sure like to see that too!! In Diggin (an android adc submission) we incorporated SHOUTcast, so that you can browse tons of channels, listen to music and get the lyrics to the tracks as well... hopefully the android phone turns up soon, so that we can start using Diggin ( http://www.youtube.com/watc... ) while mobile and yes Diggin do multitask :-)

I liked the "handshake two mobile phones" (idea number 4).... would like to see it integrate facebook, linked-in and so forth as well...

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

Fraser — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:00:44 -0000

#6: for running, someone recommended running gypsy for iphone 3g. it tracks distance and route via gps and even approximates speed. i haven't tried it yet but here's the link:

http://phobos.apple.com/Web...

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

Shunichi Arai — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:24:25 -0000

No.10, mobile phone e-ticket is realized here in Japan for domestic flight and Shinkansen bullet train.

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

jb — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:26:59 -0000

1. A lighter
2. A bottle opener
3. Tweezers

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

Fee — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:42:11 -0000

Lufthansa already offers mobile boarding passes: You check in online via your mobile phones browser then get a QR code to your phone (either via e-mail or SMS download link). At the gate you then hold your mobile phone with the QR code onto the reader at the automatic check-in counter.

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

fakedjs — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:34:06 -0000

The best in recommending old an new music.

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Thanks for listening to www.fakedjs.com

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

fredwilson — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:32:13 -0000

I never check out so that's not useful

But checking in might be nice

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

fredwilson — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:32:10 -0000

That is sweet. Thanks guys!

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

fredwilson — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:32:08 -0000

That would work well with the phone sabre app!

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

fredwilson — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:32:07 -0000

Makes me want to hack it myself

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

fredwilson — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:32:06 -0000

Come to speak of it, that sounds like a damn good idea Jackson!

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

Shaili — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:16:35 -0000

Fred, regarding #6 phone odometer: Abaqus provides a GeoDiary recorder for a variety of phones including BB, Windows, Nokia S60 etc. The service is live at www.mygeodiary.com. You can record, organize & share your geodiary content with any online service to build fitness tracks, travel blogs, social networking etc.

(full disclosure: I am co-founder)

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

fredwilson — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:18:11 -0000

Maybe they read this blog!

That's a joke by the way

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

Alan Hart — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:12:41 -0000

Bizarrely enough, this response to #10 appeared in the news just today:
http://www.m-travel.com/new...

Sabre are the owners of Travelocity and one of the biggest travel GDSs, so this would appear to be going mainstream. Having said that, the airlines are their customers, so *they* would need to see the benefit for this to become more common.

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

Raza Imam — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:16:53 -0000

What about checking in and out of your hotel via your mobile phone? You make a reservation online and mark preferences for your room (temperature, newpaper, tv channel, etc.) and when you get to the hotel, the lock on the door reads a message sent from your phone and "open sesame"

We're working on it right now and have gotten a strong response from brand name hotels... But, would it make your life easier? Would you use it?

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

kCallahan — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:43:41 -0000

Shake your iPhone and blast your contact information to everyone in the same room. This funny (and yet privacy-worthy serious) bug was with one of the first versions of the 'handshake two mobile phones' app

http://www.lockergnome.com/...

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

Sukienki — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:57:29 -0000

100% right :)

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

Alan — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:34:28 -0000

Allsport GPS will track bike rides on your blackberry www.trimbleoutdoors.com