bluepulse; konfabulator for mobile phones January 20, 2006
Posted by James Webster in : mobile , trackbackMobileCrunch has a writeup on Bluepulse, and since they are an Aussie startup in the mobile space I feel obliged to bring them to your attention.
Isaac Timothy makes a good point in the comments however:
Just a thought. Hasn’t Opera released a software development kit using AJAX technology that allows developers to create also platfrom independent applications. What is the difference between these two products?
That is indeed true! And I’m keen to hear about the differences as well. If the products are indeed technological similar, Opera has an advantage with its existing relationships with carriers. Read more about the Opera Mobile Platform at the source or over at Russell’s blog.
Still, gotta wish the Aussies the best of luck, and hopefully I’ll get to check it out on my Nokia 6600 soon!
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[…] I was expecting something along the lines of the Opera widget toolkit, there were a couple of comments to that effect, and the talk about the platform making applications work on a wide variety of devices. Inside the Bluepulse developer kit I find a description of a stripped down set of XHTML, a set of static stylesheets that the “platform” includes, some extra HTTP headers, and very minimal handling of multimedia types (mostly by just downloading them to the phone). “This can’t be all of it” I thought to myself. So I dug around for a while longer in the docs and examples looking for what I could be missing from the tech end. I’m just not seeing anything. […]
Well, taking a look at it, I think it’s far from a konfabulator like widget. I’ve made some experiments (see http://blog.landspurg.net/?p=23 ) but this one seems closer to an annoying version of Opera, especally because there is no caching at all between session, so the so colled widget are reloaded each time….
[…] That’s why this BluePulse announce seemed to me quite interesting. The ideas seems to download “widget”, on your mobile, and get revenu from this. But after trying it, I’ve been a little bit disapointed. The so called widget seems to like more as Web pages. I did not take a look at the SDK yet, but seems to me more an attempt to surf on the Widget wave than a real innovative product. Yes, just like other said, I might be missing something but this is definitevly not Konfabulator for mobile phones. […]
Have you guys seen TWUIK? I saw on their blog they have a toolkit that allows developers to create Konfabulator-kinda widgets on mobile complete with all the fancy animation and effects like what you have on your desktop, and there’s no reloading for update.
See http://www.tricastmedia.com/blog/?p=157#respond on their “mobile widgets” posting…