A cycle within Layar is that part of our path we are pretty certain on we will be able to surf. Below 10 rules to get started with working in cycles within your company.

1. It takes 1-2 months to prepare for a cycle.
2. Take your time to define your cycle.
3. You can only begin a cycle after you have delivered on the prior one.
4. You cannot plan beyond a cycle
5. If you can plan beyond a cycle your cycle is too short
6. Every cycle has a clear purpose
7. There is nothing else than the cycle.
8. Every cycle has a ritual beginning and ending.
9. Don’t change course halfway your cycle
10. If you change course halfway a cycle, you need to reduce the time of a cycle by 50%.

No I am not a scrum master.

The metaphor. I love it!

During the beginning of Layar I really felt connected to a song of U2. It’s sung LIVE at a concert in Boston 2001. I felt that the song embodied what a disruptive start-up is going through. It’s especially the first 3 minutes that remind me how it felt to start and launch with Layar.

I will try to match the song now with the timeline of a start-up..

• 0.00-0.12: A stable market. Still singing the song from an old “market state”.
• 0.13-0.22: Announcement of something new. Something is coming.
• 0.23-0.35: Arrival of something new. Something we were longing for. Recognition. Acceptance. Warm welcome.
• 0.35-1.14: ‘Pregnancy’! Preparation for launch. Building up the excitement.
• 1.14-1.27: LAUNCH. Be proud!
• 1.27-1.53: Share the rhythm and melody of your product. Get people to understand you. “How can I contribute and sing along?”
• 1.54- 2.54: Create harmony between you and your audience (co-create) “start singing together”.
• 2.45- 3.00: Share and repeat your purpose. Make clear why you are here and who you are. You are grounded. Welcome!

Now with the internet I believe that any start-up can create the circumstances to sing to a large audience like U2 does every week. It’s American Idol for start-ups. You just need to make sure that the first note is right!

Well I didn’t expect this to be my first real blogpost in 3 years

I just downloaded Mirage Money from the Vodafone Betavine site

I enjoyed playing it. It is almost as your own little mobile Wii set. You need to collect money(that is floating towards you) buy turning and moving your mobile phone through actual space. The game makes use of the 3-D motion controlled accelerometer of the N95. It has two modes. Virtual and Real. In the real mode it gives you a real Augmented Reality feeling. Have a look at the screenshot.

• 3 differences in context by media
• 3 steps towards development of services
• 3 examples of contextual services

Here it is!

If you understand some dutch or you are just curious how I sound, you can watch the video here

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UPDATE: just deleted my Fring app…enough said.. The app vibrates when you get a new chat message.. so simple bit sooo cool..

Talkonaut 4.0, native (SIS) Symbian S60 edition released.

26th of February 2008.

Mobile VoIP the way it meant to be. During last 6 months our team had been working on two major improvments to our Talkonaut mobile application: 1. moving Talkonaut application to native Symbian S60 platform, and 2. implementing real VoIP stack that allows Talkonaut users to make voice calls over most data connections your mobile phone might have, such as: GPRS, EDGE, 3G and WIFI. With this new 4th release of Talkonaut we present our achievments in these directions, we believe all they make Talkonaut more consistant, outstanding and break-through mobile VoIP + Chat application ever available.

• Features:

  Talkonaut 4.0 was entirely rewritten in C/C++ and now runs on Symbian S60 3rd edition based Nokia smart-phones. Moving from Java to native platform allowed to reduce memory usage, improved speed and to add some functionalities that were not previously available for Jave applications, like VoIP, access to file local system (improved file transfer) and interaction with other applications (Web Browser for opening URLs right from chat window).

  Using a set of narrow-band Speex codecs and relying on Jingle Audio extension to XMPP protocol (same as implemented in Google Talk), Talkonaut now brings to the world a very powerful combination of IM chat, Presence and VoIP calls made over data connection. Unlike standard SIP stack, that is available on some Nokia smart-phones, Talkonaut is not bound to WIFI only, and can make calls over GPRS, EDGE, 3G or WIFI. Talkonaut does not require to do any VoIP configuration and overcomes all the hassle with SIP settings.

  Talkonaut 4.0 allows to make free VoIP calls to Google Talk users, to SIP phones, to MSN, Yahoo, AIM and ICQ voice capable IM clients, as well as to other Talkonaut fellows.

  Talkonaut 4.0 allows to receive free calls from SIP phones (or any other VoIP networks), from Google Talk, MSN, Yahoo, AIM and ICQ users.

  Talkonaut 4.0 allows to make cheap VoIP calls (check our rates) to any mobile or landline phone number in the world.

  Talkonaut 4.0 allows to define any number of SIP accounts and use them to make free or cheap calls over third-party VoIP/SIP carriers. A flexible Dialing Plan feature is helpful for choosing routes to destinations between different carriers.

  Talkonaut 4.0 is fully equipped with all the features previously available in J2ME version of Talkonaut 3.0, inherits the same graphical user interface and menu structure.

  Talkonaut 4.0 runs on the following sets of Symbian S60 based Nokia smart-phones:

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  • 2nd Edition: 3230, 6260, 6600, 6620, 6630, 6670, 6680, 6682, 6682, 7610, N70, N72, N90 –>
  • 3rd Edition: 3250, 5500, 5700, 6110, 6120, 6121, 6290, E50, E51, E60, E61, E61i, E62, E65, E70, E90, N71, N73, N75, N76, N77, N80, N81, N81 8GB, N82, N91, N92, N93, N93i, N95, N95 8GB

  Talkonaut 4.0 can be downloaded over-the-air using mobile web browser from http://get.talkonaut.com/, or via PC from http://www.talkonaut.com/download.shtml.

Isn’t this simply amazing.. Never thought about a display in this way..

Found it at petitinvention