From WWW 2007: Mashing up the Mobile

One of the sessions at WWW 2007 that I’d really have loved to attend (but couldn’t) was Mashing up the Mobile, by Paul Downey and Uros Rapajic of British Telecom.Fortunately, their slides are now available online, and I got a quick intro to much of the content while playing booth babe at the W3C booth on another day of the conference. The work that Paul and Uros are doing essentially explores what happens when you connect mash-ups, RSS feeds, and mobile phones with each other in all kinds of ways, and then just let the ideas flow. The results are both playful and powerful.While talking to Paul, I also learned about Twittervision, Dapper, and what happens when you feed geotagged RSS into Google Maps (try it). Good stuff!