The following tweets are the highlights from last week. To see all of my tweets, please visit me on Twitter:

• Congratulations to my latest client, @facedotcom, who today launched a new FREE facial detection & recognition API for developers!… #
• Here’s more information on the launch of @facedotcom‘s free facial detection and recognition API: http://ht.ly/1Gs7l #in #
• Congrats to @Zawthet and the team at @4INFO: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/03/4info-adds-new-execs-to-fuel-100-growthquarter/ #
• If you’re in #portland Oregon on Thursday, get free tickets to INNOTECH from @harrisja & get the scoop on his #Mobile Lightning Talks… #
• RT @jjaisimha is moderating a great panel on Enterprise Mobile Apps and LBS at TiECon next week! Salesforce, Sybase, Qualcomm, Nearbynow… #
• @carlmartin Interesting. In Feb Jha told WSJ that if Moto could afford its own OS it would have one http://ht.ly/1GO3p in reply to carlmartin #
• Great news! @HP says they’ll focus on expanding @Palm‘s WebOS post acquisition: http://ht.ly/1GPLj # Read More…

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: Read 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. Read More…

I was recently asked to participate in a video with others in mobile talking about what the future of LTE (Long Term Evolution / 4G) means for real people. Here it is!  The guys who produced the video are a great team called DHP Studios out of London. If you’re looking for a company to create videos for corporate events, etc. check them out. They’ve got great experience with special effects and production.

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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Here are the highlights from my Twitter feed last week. To see all my tweets, visit me on Twitter: Read More…

Today, I started a new consulting project with a mobile app discovery start-up called, Chomp, Inc.  I’m excited to be working with a team of smart, motivated, and fun people.  I’ll be leading mobile business development for Chomp – evaluating opportunities for growth.  I’d love to tell you about but can’t.  Here’s what I can tell you… Read More…

Below are the highlights from my Twitter stream last week. To read all of my tweets, visit me on Twitter. Read More…

I just downloaded Sandvine’s 2010 Mobile Internet Phenomena(1) study, a whopping 35-page report that details data trends from more than 40 of the world’s leading mobile operators, who serve more than 200 million subscribers worldwide.  Sandvine is a bit of a ‘traffic cop’ on the figurative ‘mobile highway.’  It provides network policy control solutions to mobile operators around the globe.  Sandvine’s Mobile Internet Phenomena study is jam packed with good information about what consumers are doing online from their mobile devices around the world and plenty of reasons why mobile operators need help managing mobile traffic.  Intrigued by the findings in Sandvine’s report, I couldn’t help but think about what traffic on the mobile highway looks like today and wonder what the future holds for the mobile ecosystem amidst growing  congestion… Read More…

Today, European-based mobile analytics company, Distimo, launched a new, free analytics tool called Distimo Monitor, which allows developers to track the performance of their application across several app stores and compare that performance to their competition.  Prior to this new product release, Distimo already provided both free and customized reports on the mobile application ecosystem through its “Distimo Report” offering.  With Distimo Monitor, mobile application developers can now tailor their own reports to get free insights into their apps’ performance. Read More…