Mobup in Sun headquarters

Being in Sun is probably something like being near the gotha of Java, you can thus imagine our happiness when we were invited to join the guys from the Java Mobile Developers Forum this morning for a day packed with great presentations (albeit I was forced to leave the seminar just after lunch, damn).
Note: I’ll have to carefully follow the operations behind the launch of Handango Italy: its 19 yrs old country manager is really unusual fir this country but looks really prepared.

We showcased Mobup; well probably I’d say I just introduced the philosophy behind Mobup while Vincenzo took the listeners down to the source code for the rest of the speech. But we talked to programmers and programmers’ stuff was their bread.

I’d really like to thank Edoardo Schepis from SUN/JMDF for the opportunity and the friendly atmosphere we found (mad props go to Stefano Sanna, probably the greatest of our new – shall I say – friends)

While waiting for Edoardo’s photos you can take a look at some of the shots we mobupped at the beginning of the seminar.”

Getting things done

Ok. Let’s say I’m plenty with things to blog, so that I’ll have to summarize a little bit.

Research: I had the Innovazione+ technical commitee meeting this wednesday and I have to say we came out with some REALLY interesting ideas to be presented to the next IST FP6 call. One of those is based on something we’ve been researching for the last couple of months to support ageing population (cannot say more, sorry); it’s going to be a tough competition but we’re really working hard to win those funds.

Interaction design institute: I’ve been invited today by Aram Armstrong to attend to the IDII thesis presentations next monday. I’m looking forward to listen to the Open Builder project by Vinay Venkatraman: a prototype of a tactile browser for sight-impaired people.
I’m also going to meet with Fabio Sergio for the second time in the same months, this is a guinness that’ll be partied with a Guinness.

I’m also managing a tough delivery for a whole site redesign. It’s going live tomorrow (let’s say: before tomorrow night). Some serious debug to be done. Damn.

Mobup 0.2 out on Monday

We’ll deliver on Monday the newsest version of Mobup, the 0.2

We’ve nearly reprogrammed the whole application in order to maximize compatibility on Nokia s60 devices which should be now fully supported(our beta testers team is now working on granularly verifying it).

While rewriting the code we’ve also spent some time optimizing it and the resulted code is now less then 38KB in size. Yes madam the whole moup application won’t eat your device internal memory while managing

  • Photo shooting
  • Title, descriptions and tags
  • Lazy user (c) tagging system (Mobup will download the 10 most popular tags from your Flickr account) post the photo in your Flickr sets
  • Publish the whole thing on your own blog

We’ve also blown away messsages screen and have them substitute with faster and “AJAX style” on screen messaging system.

Hope you’ll spend some time giving it a try.