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SMS: Social Networking Tool in India

GupShup is an SMS based mobile application which attempts to bring social networking to the mobile world. It was introduced by Webaroo, who’s founder is Rakesh Mathur. People can create, manage or contribute to groups by either using the GupShup website or by sending an SMS to a local mobile phone short code. This application [...]

June 9th, 2007 | Category: india, mobile phone, mososo | One comment

SoCho – Mobile Social “Chow” App

SoCho is a tool that makes restaurant recommendations to hungry
users, based on their social network. With a mobile device, users can
browse restaurants, view recommendations, search by cost, or the
system can make recommendations based on who you know and what type
of food you are interested in at that time. Social networks provide
the frame work for deriving [...]

November 16th, 2006 | Category: ITP, Mobile App Design, mobile phone, mososo, travel | Leave a comment

UTF-8 J2ME Datastream Implementation

I’m trying to get foreign alphabet characters to show up on my mobile phone via a J2ME translation application that I’m writing.

The biggest hurdle is understanding how unicode works, and creating an http connection that reads UTF-8 bytes.

Step-by-step:

Make sure you have Arial Unicode MS font or any other unicode font.
Update properties file in phone emulator [...]

November 12th, 2006 | Category: ITP, Mobile App Design, languaget, mobile phone, mososo, travel | 2 comments

Ubicomp 06 – mobile phone apps

Hitchers (Mixed Reality Lab, Nottingham University)

In the Hitchers game, the streets are full of people who are trying to hitchhike their way across the city or up and down the country.

Players can:

- Summon give hitchers tasks or missions. Like: find your way home or to a given place and deliver a message/take a photo. Hitchers [...]

September 20th, 2006 | Category: mobile phone, mososo, ubicomp 06 | One comment