Brian Payst on May 11th, 2009

The fine, fine folks at MIT have released the first version of their Mobile Web project as open source code. I’ve been messing around with it for a bit today and it is quite impressive. We’ve been up against budget crunch issues for continuing to push into mobile on campus and this platform may be [...]

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Brian Payst on June 3rd, 2008

Techcrunch has an interesting post about an apparently upcoming iPhone social network app. I agree with much of what he is saying, but I think the real killer app here will be someone combining the rich connected experience of the iPhone with the user capital of facebook, myspace, etc. Although people seem to be willing to [...]

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Brian Payst on September 25th, 2007

The flash card app slipped into Rave’s most recent update and is now available for our use. This is one we have been waiting for as it presents an opportunity to give faculty, TAs and others a tool whereby they can create some potentially useful course related content for students that they can reach on [...]

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Brian Payst on August 2nd, 2007

With UNC Mobile now out the door and running I’ve been trying to start building a developer community on campus for mobile apps. One of the nice things about our program is that pretty much any XHTML formatted page can become a mobile application. That ends up being a very powerful thing as it does [...]

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Brian Payst on June 29th, 2007

As someone who works with Technology every day I feel somehow obligated to post on iPhone launch day. I don’t think I’ll make it out tonight for the initial release, but I imagine I will end up with one at some point. If they’ve hidden SyncML in there somewhere then I’m hooked, otherwise I don’t [...]

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