James Little @ NZfusion.com

Well perhaps not my life specifically… but Open Social this week… Android and the open handset alliance next week (November 12 will be the release of the SDK).

Ok Open social perhaps wasn’t as exciting as I might as hoped, others also feel it was a little over hyped. But it is still an open API to the social world.

The Open handset alliance is expected to be everything that the current mobile market isn’t… open, standardised. I suspect that this was a very sensible move by google… the desktop market is all sewn up by microsoft… sure BSD and Linux are competing… but BSD has gained wider acceptance largely because of the Mac OSX and linux is pretty much a cheap web server environment. I run Linux at home, I’ve run NetBSD and FreeBSD at home… but windows pretty much owns the desktop markets.

Mobile on the other hand is an open ball game… Microsoft has a presence, but hardly anyone trusts microsoft enough to having it running 24×7 on anything… I believe mobile is the way of the future as the PC was the way of 90s and 00s… I suspect the Google OS everybody was joking about is about to be released and it isn’t a webOS.. it is run a mobile phone that doesn’t need a lot of memory, because it uses Google Docs.

Update [27-Mar-2008]: Google are truely going out of their way to make my life more exciting… I only wish I was paying closer attention! In January, Google announced $10 million in awards to be made to Android developers, with the top 50 applications submitted prior to April 14 2008 being eligible for $25,000. You should follow the Android blog for more information!

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