In the last post on Moving from Typepad to Wordpress, I gave the outline of pains of migrating from Typepad to Wordpress. Lets continue where I left in the last post. Lets talk about the following 5 issues and how I solved them here. Typepad uses short weired urls’s for each post while Wordpress uses SEO friendly [...]

After initially starting out with ‘hotfromsiliconvalley.typepad.com’, for quite a while I’ve been using my own domain name ‘www.hotfromsiliconvalley.com’ for my Typepad blog, my first blog. When I decided to move from Typepad to Wordpress, I had thought that moving from the Typepad to Wordpress would be simple, easy and straight forward. Why - because Typepad [...]

Just to make sure that the readers are not confused, Jitendra Mudhol, who is contributing editor to Silicon Valley Blog, and writes about Wireless and Mobile technologies, is still on blogging break. He is spending some time in San Diego working on Cutting edge wireless technologies which you will get to play with in next [...]

I have been very very busy for last couple of months with my new venture and family. I am happy to report that the beta code for StartupNewz is ready now ( no major bugs) and we would be putting it in production this week. Keeping my fingers crossed. Finally things are in control again [...]

Folks, I am on a consulting tour and therefore my postings may be patchy for a while. Please bear with the silence.

Huff … Puff … once again trying to play catch-up … Carnival of the Mobilists #120 is hosted by Skydeck.  Click here to access the link. Carnival of the Mobilists #121 is brought to you by 3lib.  You can get to it here. And finally, the Carnival of the Mobilists #122 comes to you from Xellular Identity here.

The IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Santa Clara Valley Society organized its annual Short Course titled “WiMAX: Opportunities, Challenges and Concepts”, on Saturday 19 April 2008 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Auditorium. Here are some of the highlights from the sessions: Dr. Mohammed Sayed set the ball rolling with an introduction to the Workshop.   Delivering the keynote [...]

Way to go.  Engadget has an eye-catching note about Samsung and the possibility of a water-power cellphone from them by 2010.  That would really be interesting.  Any startups thinking on similar lines?  Let me know.  In the meantime, Samsung released their first HSUPA handset for the South Korea Telecom’s network with 2Mb/s upload and up to [...]

 The IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Santa Clara Valley Society organized an event on Saturday April 19, 2008 titled “Short Course: WiMAX Opportunities, Challenges, and Concepts”.  I had a very interesting day and will post the details about this event soon.  Details of the event and pictures are here.

The Carnival of the Mobilists #117 is on mobilestance.com - a blog started in 2007 by Jamie Wells, mobilestance.com is a resource for those following the movements, trends and key happenings in the mobile marketing industry. Click here for the Carnival of the Mobilists #118.  Paul Ruppert is hosting it on Mobile Point View.  The over-arching [...]

Here are some of the upcoming events that I will be attending.  If you are going to be at this event, let’s meet: Chuck House, Executive Director of Media X at Stanford University is speaking on “Innovation - the Secret Sauce” as part of the Media X Spring Lecture Series on April 16, 2008 at the [...]

In his work, “Manuel Castells, Open Source, Technology of Cooperation“, Howard Rheingold said: When social communication media grow in capability, pace, scope, or scale, people use these media to construct more complex social arrangements—that is, they use communication tools and techniques to increase their capacity to cooperate at larger and larger scales. Human history is a [...]

Need to play catch up … took an unplanned blogging break due to heavy workload.  I apologize to those who missed me.  Lot of exciting things have been happening.  Let’s start …

Situational Marketing is hosting the Carnival of the Mobilists #116.  The best post was snagged by Barbara Ballard for her comparison of the Sanyo and Blackberry phones.  Click here to access the link.

I attended the Mobile Advertising Book Event at Stanford yesterday, organized by Mobile Momentum.  I wrote about them earlier (click here for the link).  Details of the event are here. Authors Chetan Sharma and Victor Melfi gave an interesting presentation about their book “Mobile Advertising”, explaining what they had covered and focused on.  Brian Cowley of AdInfuse, [...]

Andrew Gill, who focuses on mobile advertising, mobile location and local search is hosting the Carnival of the Mobilists #115.  This time the listing spans (among others) Social Effects of Online Networking, Stupid Networks, iPhone,  US Mobile Market numbers and personal Mobile TV Channels.  Thank you Andrew for the hosting.  You can access the site here.

The 2008 Brand Keys Customer Loyalty Engagement Index has been announced.  This is the link to the site. Thanks to the tectonic shifts in media, marketing and branding are undergoing sea changes that affect the customer-loyalty.  Here’s something interesting from the Wireless/Mobile point of view: Who Makes The Best Cellphones? 1. Samsung 2. BlackBerry 3. Treo 4. Motorola 5. Nokia 6. Sanyo 7. LG 8. Panasonic, [...]

Chetan Sharma is hosting this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists #114.  As usual, he has made a very delectable selection of the best writing in this area.  Click here to go to the post.

Forum One Communications is hosting their popular Mobile Communities Unconference in the Sheraton in Palo Alto on Thursday, 20 March 2008.  Bill Johnston, Forum One’s Director of Community and Research says: The intention of the Mobile Communities Unconference is to explore the opportunities with building community via mobile devices. To register for the Conference, click here.  Readers of this [...]

This is coming a little late in the week from me.  Mark van ‘t Hooft is hosting the Carnival of the Mobilists #113 on his site Ubiquitous Thoughts.  He is done a great job in selecting some of the best writing in this area.  Thank you Mark.  You can access the link here.