Here are the highlights from my Twitter stream last week. To see the full stream, please visit me on Twitter.

• Headed to #uplinq today. #in #
• Personalization and socialization (via social networks) of app recommendations is a big theme for the #qualcomm keynote at #uplinq # (more…)

Eric Chan over at MobileSlate is helping to organize what looks like a great talk about the future of the mobile digital home, sponsored by Huawei Technologies Company.  One of the speakers is a friend and former colleague, Harshul Sanghi from Motorola Ventures, who I think has great insights on the future of the connected home – in particular internet connected TV.  Check out the details and registration information below: (more…)

My weekly highlights from Twitter. To read all of my tweets, visit me on Twitter:

• @davidalmstrom Photobucket is free & monetizes through mobile and online ads. Ad-free pro accounts are also available: http://ht.ly/1Z4km in reply to davidalmstrom #
• RT @MobileCrunch: T-Mobile Rolls Out “4G Speed” Network In 15+ New Cities – http://is.gd/cQZ0w #
• RT @FoneFrenzy: Apple now sold out of iPhone 4 pre-orders http://ping.fm/0aGII #
• I’m at #sfmobile #039;s #html5 event at #orange in south #sf #
  • First up, #moblyng which is using html5 to ease porting of mobile apps cross platform, but they’re not opening their sdk to devs #sfmobile #
  • Sencha is up now. It was announced this week- combo of 3 former opensource projects. They’re all about #html5 and #css3 #sfmobile. #
  • If you are interested in #sencha follow @mmullany, who is speaking about it at #sfmobile #
  • Ryan Massey from Clicker.com is up now…It’s the first internet tv programming guide online: legal full length TV episodes. #sfmobile #
  • Correction- the url for clicker is http://tv.clicker.com #sfmobile #
  • RT @lorifraleigh: Clicker speaking now at html5. Complete programming guide to internet tv. Not working so well from my mobile browser. #
  • Netflix is up now…launching for #iphone during summer. They’re creating an app shell and using #HTML5 in it #sfmobile #
  • Great quote from #netflix guy, “What everyone is referring to as #html5 is actually #css3 ” #
• Goodbye @MotoMobile #motorola #Backflip & good riddance. Got it through AT&T #devcon It regularly locks SIM, won’t answer calls & freezes. #

Socialize Mobilize has a handful of free tickets to give away to the upcoming 2010 UPLINQ Conference taking place in San Diego, CA, June 29-July 1, thanks to our good friends at Qualcomm and The Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP)! (more…)

If you’re a mobile apps developer, the Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference is looking for presenters for its AppCircus event in Barcelona.  I was asked to be a judge in the app contest.  Here are the details of the event directly from the organizers:

Present your app at the Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference for FREE!

Mobile 2.0 Europe is proud to host the AppCircus – a unique global traveling showcase of innovative apps!

Participation is FREE and open to start ups and individual developers, so apply now to the AppCircus@Mobile 2.0 Europe in Barcelona June 17th 2010 and walk the high-wire! (more…)

Following my earlier post announcing the nominees for the 2010 MEX User Experience Awards in London, the ballots have been tallied and the winners were recently announced.   As a judge in this year’s competition, I was particularly interested to hear see who won: (more…)

On Thursday, June 3, 2010, from 6:30-8:30pm, Blue Run Ventures (BRV), an early stage venture firm specializing in internet mobile, and software start-ups, is hosting a FREE developer event at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, a “community center for hackers and thinkers to meet, discuss, learn, create, build and play.”

At this event, Jay Jamison, former executive from Microsoft , will talk about how he used just 20% of his time and a small budget to launch SmackDaddy, on eof the top mobile sports apps in the iTunes App Store.  Jonathan Ebinger, Partner at BRV will also talk about the opportunties and pitfalls for start-ups and what it takes to get investment in the current environment.

If you’re a developer or member of a founding team that’s looking for good advice, this event should be a good one.  Sign up here.

I am thrilled to be one of the five judges of the 2010 MEX User Experience Awards, the winners of which will be announced at the MEX Conference in London on May 19th.  This is the third year of the MEX User Experience Awards which seeks to recognize companies with the best user-centered design in mobile.  42 companies, freelancers, and students entered the competition this year, and today, MEX announced the shortlist of nominees up for the following Awards: (more…)

Today, my newest client, Face.com launched an new, open and free API and developer community for facial recognition and detection.  This is exciting news for developers that want to incorporate facial detection and recognition capabilities into their applications.  If you’re a developer, you can get started with the API and get involved with the community here. (more…)

Yesterday, veteran Internet industry analyst, Mary Meeker (who has been covering the Internet since Netscape days), and the team from Morgan Stanley published a new Internet Trends report.  The full report is well worth a read, and you can download all 87 pages here in .pdf.  In this post, I’ll review the highlights from this report and discuss what I think is missing – namely coverage of one of the key issues for the future of mobile Internet – native and web app discoverability.

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