Open Source Mozzila/Firefox based on Choardic design, part chaos and part order, like how internet is ..

It was nice see the this Video published by Stanford about how Firefox/Mozzila have scaled up while following a choardic design. It is how innovations can happen in the open while balancing between choatic innovation to an ordered means to filter out noise and provide value to the end user finally.This is long but very informative.


Video of John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, and Mike Beltzner, Director of Firefox @ Stanford

I suppose this is a way any open source project should think of organizing itself to scale in terms of growing the community while maturing the software quality making the developed asset usable by real users..
This is really interesting in terms of understanding the power of open source

Future of Mobile Interactions -

Here is an interesting video by Pranav Mistry from MIT Media Lab.


It was particularly nice to see where the ideas for his research is coming from and how he approached this. This is what i was missing in the previous presentation by Pattie Maes from MIT. Very well presented. I am impressed with the motivation and also since they plan to open source this. This is the way to go to see real and wide adoption.

The inspiration and innovations for Pranav as he said is coming from his needs from  making technology affordable. Making it free or so slow that anyone can afford it and use it. Lots of interesting concepts that have been realized here. Good research !!

Co-Creation @ Maemo Summit

When I was at Maemo Summit in October I realized after the session that there was a Co-creation session where community members brainstormed about new ideas for developed.

I picked up a few things that was interesting to me particularly considering the  Mobile Office.
#1.  Live Editing: This is like quick document creation using the capabilities of Mobile device, adding some description, media from the camera and sharing it immediately with  your mobile peers or your remote team member. This reminds me ActiveNotes what we developed in Nokia in the past in S60 devices.


2.NRich: This  very interesting idea and could be very powerful and could enable end user real time mashupand use within a UI of existing applications.

What do you think will help you when working with documents, creating text, notes and using multimedia for documentation specially using Camera, GPS, Audio/Video recorders.

What sort of uses do you have for Office applications on your device ?

Viral Advertising system

Finally my article about Viral Advertising using a device centric approach appears in IJMM

MMA Store | Mobile Marketing Association: "Viral Distribution Potential Based Active Node Identification for Ad Distribution in Viral Networks.
Here is the abstract of the article:

Mobile advertisements are a most sought out mode of advertising that brings in the capability of users context to allow personalized targeting. Traditional modes of advertising lack the means to track the effectiveness of campaigns and traceability. This paper describes a novel approach where the complete advertisement life cycle can be managed and controlled from a smart wireless mobile computing device. In particular, a mobile device takes a central role in creation, delivery, consumption, viral distribution and redemption of the offer provided by the advertiser."

Mobile Office KOffice For Maemo5 - Maemo Summit2009

Just found time to share my slides made at Maemo Summit.

Mobile Office KOffice For Maemo5 - Maemo Summit2009

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Mobile Office based on KOffice for Maemo 5

Just made a presentation and demo of KOffice for Maemo 5 UI. Here is the video of the KOffice running on Maemo 5. This Office UI will be open sourced and will be available for download from Maemo extras-devel respository soon. The Office UI developed for Maemo 5 will be open sourced and if you want to contribute join us at maemo.gitorious.org to mature this application for making it end user ready and if you are interested to improve the core of the Office Engine join the KOffice community.



The KOffice supports ODF  and MS Office formats.  The basically means that KOffice on Maemo 5 benefits from this and hence we have the first ODF complaint Office viewer which can also handle MS Office formats.

Want some inspiration to hack on N900

Here are some interesting hacks on N900: