A Perspective on Location Services, Mobile Entrepreneurship & Startup Life

“The essential process in webizing is to take a system which is designed as a closed world, and then ask what happens when it is considered as part of an open world. Practically, this effect on a computer language is to replace the names/tokens/identifiers for URIs.  Thus, where before reference could only be made to something in the same document/program/module one can with equal ease make reference to something in a different one somewhere in that abstract space which is the Web.”

– Tim Berners-Lee, “Webizing existing systems“

I posted a blog entry on the LIFT conference community blog. It is about the characteristics and differences of mobile and web content, if you want to separate these two. Feel free to comment on these thoughts.

The Internet and its services play a more and more important role on mobile devices and thus I am interested in mobile application development and its chances for startups. Everyone is waiting for mobile killer applications for years but we are coming closer and I expect 2009 to be an interesting mobile year.