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The night before last I attended my first, but definitely not last, Refresh Seattle event. Refresh Seattle according to it’s home page is “a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of New Media endeavors in the Seattle/Puget Sound area”. Another way to say it is an opportunity … Read more » Refresh Seattle 2008.03.19

Over the weekend, I went out walking around downtown Seattle. During a session at the Local Color coffee shop at Pike’s Market, I discovered two very cool mobile websites – Yelp and EarthComber. Yelp is great because it lets you discover restaurants, nightlife, and any other service that might interest you, as well as feedback … Read more » Things to Do, People to See

I came across a site promoting “Email Standards”. It sounded like a good idea so I checked it out. What they are actually talking about is applying Web Standards to email, which is something entirely different. Web standards is about making web content available to everyone in a consistent way. This is partially achieved by … Read more » Email Standards

This afternoon I found this Engadget blog entry titled “Dear Palm: It’s time for an intervention“. I agree with much of what is said in this article. I would like to offer a couple of additional suggestions, most of which are specific to mobile developers. Consistent Screen size and resolution – With all the differences … Read more » Engadget to Palm