Adam Bird
About: Developer, architect and entrepreneur
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iPhone MMS, a request to O2
--Just received another of those awful text messages from O2 because someone has sent me an MMS message. Tried the web link in the SMS from my iPhon...
Google alerting yourself
--I have many Google alerts set up for tracking the web activity around Esendex and associated keywords and of course I track the term 'Adam Bird'. ...
Is Genius a shortcut to banality?
--Like many others I've been enjoying the Genius playlist feature in iTunes 8. I've been generally pleased with the results until a realisation struc...
The Vitruvian Triathlon
--Had some fun this weekend in and around Rutland Water doing the Virtuvian Triathlon On the face of it, it's a fairly ridiculous thing to attempt...
Blogger relief pack
--If you're a flagging blogger this could be for you http://www.berocca.co.uk/bloggerrelief/ Hope I qualify
Can Software as a Service go mobile?
--The opportunity for Mobile SaaS is huge, as computing moves from the desktop to mobile devices, it is a natural evolution that software delivered ...
Vodafone USB Data Stick - indestructible
--Vodafone USB Data Stick - indestructibleWent through the wash at the weekend, still works. If only the Vodafone data coverage was as robust :(Mobil...
Recruitment Companies Feeling the Pinch
--This popped into my inbox today With the credit crunch looming above us a number of my clients are becoming increasingly reluctant to part with ...
What a team
--Every so often something happens that makes you realise how far you've come as a business. I had one of these moments last night when we upgraded o...
More on that iPhone queue in Sydney
--Closer inspection revealed there wasn't just one queue. Because the iPhone is available on 3 networks in Australia (Telstra, Vodafone & Optus) ...
iPhone queue, Sydney
--people are still queueing for the iPhone here in Sydney
What was I saying about needing the new iPhone because of my battery?
--Well the new one certainly pulls some juice. I can't get through the day without having to charge it. Not great for a device I want to use as my pr...
Great use of SMS Long Number
--Saw this in Melbourne today. The use of an SMS Long Number makes this service so much more accessible and thus useful. Most people are...
No joy
--No joySystem crashed and they didn't had any 16GB versions anyway. But I did manage to get quite far on Super Monkey BallMobile post from the Esend...
No joy
--System crashed and they didn't had any 16GB versions anyway. But I did manage to get quite far on Super Monkey BallMobile post from the Esendex Blo...
I've succumb, I tried not to, by I walked past
--I've succumb, I tried not to, by I walked past the Beeston O2 store this morning and the queue wasn't big. Let's hope I get one nowMobile post from...
I've succumb, I tried not to
--I walked past the Beeston O2 store this morning and the queue wasn't big. Let's hope I get one nowMobile post from the Esendex BlogIt service
The farce that is integrated transport in the UK
--The farce that is integrated transport in the UK. Followers of Julian's blog will know that the two of us are cycling from Bedford to Esendex HQ in...
The farce that is integrated transport in the UK
--The farce that is integrated transport in the UK. Followers of Julian's blog will know that the two of us are cycling from Bedford to Esendex HQ in...
If only it was true
--USB Wine, telechargez vos vins en direct des domaines !Uploaded by zs2creative
If only it was true
--USB Wine, telechargez vos vins en direct des domaines !Uploaded by zs2creative
New iPhone not a moment too soon
--The battery is really starting to fade on my iPhone, let's hope the next upgrade is in a year as well.
New iPhone not a moment too soon
--The battery is really starting to fade on my iPhone, let's hope the next upgrade is in a year as well.
Judging is complete
--Finished the judging for the Esendex Developer Challenge today. A tricky exercise, the entries were diverse, in the end however we were all in agr...
Judging is complete
--Finished the judging for the Esendex Developer Challenge today. A tricky exercise, the entries were diverse, in the end however we were all in agr...
Worshipping at a Jura-powered altar
--It's shiny, has a touch interface, makes a great cup of coffee and is now gracing the kitchen at Esendex Towers. Though everyone seems a little ...
Worshipping at a Jura-powered altar
--It's shiny, has a touch interface, makes a great cup of coffee and is now gracing the kitchen at Esendex Towers. Though everyone seems a little ...
Micro-blogging needs syndication
--Phil posted today “Is twitter a serious business tool or just a complete waste of time?”. I dropped him a comment but in writing it, I came to a r...
Micro-blogging needs syndication
--Phil posted today “Is twitter a serious business tool or just a complete waste of time?”. I dropped him a comment but in writing it, I came to a r...
Nokia vs BlackBerry vs iPhone
--The web is awash with opinion and comment, so why not add my two-penneth. I sit here with a Nokia E51, BlackBerry 8707v and an iPhone. When the iPh...
Nokia vs BlackBerry vs iPhone
--The web is awash with opinion and comment, so why not add my two-penneth. I sit here with a Nokia E51, BlackBerry 8707v and an iPhone. When the iPh...
Security in anonymity
--Amazon have had some recent outages (Bots to blame for Amazon.com outages? | The Register) which raise a spectre of doubt for me over the viability...
Security in anonymity
--Amazon have had some recent outages (Bots to blame for Amazon.com outages? | The Register) which raise a spectre of doubt for me over the viability...
Are email read receipts rude?
--A couple of people I email on a regular basis request a read receipt by default. I don't send them, partially because I hate the dialog that pops u...
Are email read receipts rude?
--A couple of people I email on a regular basis request a read receipt by default. I don't send them, partially because I hate the dialog that pops u...
SMS Home Routing, let's have a discussion before it's too late
--In my interview with Informa yesterday we discussed among many things was SMS Home Routing and that, in my opinion, it represents one of the bigges...
SMS Home Routing, let's have a discussion before it's too late
--In my interview with Informa yesterday we discussed among many things was SMS Home Routing and that, in my opinion, it represents one of the bigges...
O2 and the new iPhone, perhaps I might be stuck
--Next week it seems we'll find out about the 3G iPhone, and hopefully O2 will put me out of my misery about whether they'll let me upgrade (Will O2 ...
O2 and the new iPhone, perhaps I might be stuck
--Next week it seems we'll find out about the 3G iPhone, and hopefully O2 will put me out of my misery about whether they'll let me upgrade (Will O2 ...
The great British iPhone mystery | The Register
--This popped up on The Register today, well worth a read. The great British iPhone mystery | The Register I've currently got a Nokia E51 so I can ...
The great British iPhone mystery | The Register
--This popped up on The Register today, well worth a read. The great British iPhone mystery | The Register I've currently got a Nokia E51 so I can ...
Is it cool to dis Twitter?
--I don't know about you but I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about how hard it is for the guys at Twitter to scale their service. What's rec...
Is it cool to dis Twitter?
--I don't know about you but I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about how hard it is for the guys at Twitter to scale their service. What's rec...
Qik vs Youtube
--Qik.com is a great service. Rock solid throughout my trip to Paris and really added something special to the media mix on our event web site. You c...
Qik vs Youtube
--Qik.com is a great service. Rock solid throughout my trip to Paris and really added something special to the media mix on our event web site. You c...
SMS Engagement
--I posted on the Esendex Blog about SMS Blogging to Paris. I'd built a web site (www.r4rh.org) for the event and thought it would be a great idea if...
SMS Engagement
--I posted on the Esendex Blog about SMS Blogging to Paris. I'd built a web site (www.r4rh.org) for the event and thought it would be a great idea if...
Nottingham to Paris on a Brompton
--I made it. Not doing it again.
Nottingham to Paris on a Brompton
--I made it. Not doing it again.
Will O2 penalise me for being an early-adopter?
--The 3G iPhone is imminent, I'm about 7 months into my existing contract (11 months to go), will O2 let me upgrade? I sincerely hope they do and I d...
Great support from Garmin
--I've got a GPS device for my bike so have the desktop software loaded on my PC. Recently it failed to start on bootup and gave me an error dialog w...
Service Level Agreements for SMS Services, pointless?
--I attended a presentation about the need for SLAs in the SMS industry by Michael Kowalzik, CEO of Tyn-Tec, at Global Messaging 2008 last week. I wa...
Altruism
--I met a number of people at Global Messaging 2008 once we'd set the messaging world straight and we talked more socially the topic of my impending ...
Mobile working back from Cannes - another coverage on trains rant
--Following on form my post Mobile working to Cannes, I'm not going to report on the whole trip but I have one observation from the return leg. F...
Voice SMS is so much better than texting a BT landline
--There are times when you don't need to work to sell in the benefits of a new service, the incumbent service you're improving on does it all for you...
SMS Home Routing, should we as an industry be worried?
--SMS Home Routing was a key topic discussed at Global Messaging 2008 this week. It's introduction brings with it the potential to seriously disrupt ...
Loving Windows Live Writer
--Like Microsoft have created some blogging software, that's like free and like works with everything that's not Microsoft and is like really useful ...
iPhone maps rescue me again
--Not for the first time I've been very lazy and just turned up somewhere thinking I could find my way to where i was going using only my instincts.A...
Mobile working to Cannes
--I decided to take the train to Global Messaging 2008 in Cannes,France. Last year I did it overnight which was sort of fun. This year I'm heading do...
Searching for my twitter identity
--Ewan of SMS Text News came to see us at Esendex yesterday. One of the subjects we chewed on, over Coke and tomato juice (boy it was a wild afte...
Live Mesh
--I had the 'honour' at being at the launch of Microsoft Live Mesh yesterday. It promises a lot: ultimate, seamless connectivity for all devices,...
The iPhone is useless without data coverage
--The iPhone is useless without data coverageI'm in the US at the moment and being too stingey to pay exhorbitant data roaming charges, I'm hopping f...
Alphanumeric sender restrictions come to Spain
--Spanish operators seem to be clamping down on the use of alphanumeric sender aliases. Instead the messages must come with a valid reply-path be it...
Wrestling with low-lifes
--Running an ecommerce site as we do, we get exposed to all sorts of fraudulent attempts to purchase our SMS services with stolen credit cards. We...
"We even hired an expert"
--This tickled me. You may be aware that Sprint are launching an iPhone competitor in partnership with Samsung, the Samsung Instinct. It's a big de...
iPhone goes for the enterprise, BlackBerry fight back
--It's an iPhone with a QWERTY keyboard! BlackBerry 9000 in the wild OK so no touch screen interface but this promises to be a serious bit of ki...
Code Comments are they really pungent?
--XP tells us that comments are a bad coding smell indicating that some functionality should be refactored out into a method. I've never been totall...
Are Symbian and J2ME dead?
--The launch of the iPhone and Android SDKs represent a huge leap forward in the opportunities for mobile device application development. The questi...
So, I'm cycling from Nottingham to Paris on a Brompton
--Regular readers will know I've been dusting of my web site development skills to builda web site for a charity ride that I'm taking part in in May...
Loving the new BBC mobile site
--Loving the new BBC mobile siteI'm guessing it's iPhone specific rendering because it fits really well. When I travel to different places I often fi...
Putting SLAP to use - Dynamic Config
--Now I've got the specifications of the SLAP protocol out of the way, I'd like to describe how we're using it and the benefits we are seeing. Th...
Web-sent SMSs now face restrictions
--Picked this up from my Google Alerts : Web-sent SMSs now face restrictions Of particular interest was the following paragraph: The committee ha...
Just got a Vodafone USB Modem
--Just got a Vodafone USB ModemWas going to post an entry about how great it is to be able to access the Internet from wherever I am. Unfortunately I...
A very RESTful experience
--In May this year, a group of us (parents, friends and teachers) from my sons' school are cycling from Nottingham to Paris in order to raise mon...
Disney embraces SMS
--I visited Magic Kingdom last week and saw this as we were going into the Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor attraction. You could text in jokes and the...
Someone just told me about springlets.com They're quick links to searching
--Someone just told me about springlets.com They're quick links to searching certain web sites or performing quick iPhone specific tasks. You just...
Other SLAPs
--Seems I'm not the only one who sees the comedy value in the use of SLAP as a protocol name: SLAP (Superior Labrum Anterior Posterior) Lesion Rep...
If only he'd signed up for BlogIt
--The Register reported today that Charles Dunstone (CEO of Carphone Warehouse) has taken down his blog. If he'd signed up for BlogIt he might have f...
Something missing from the iPhone
--Ability to click through from an appointment location to a map with it pinned. Or am I missing something?Mobile post from the Esendex BlogIt service
SLAP - LOCATE Message
--The LOCATE message is used by service clients to discover the existence and state of services on the network. Sent as a UDP broadcast it requests ...
The champagne's a bit flat.
--In need of somewhere to discuss a bit of strategy after a day with our board, Julian and I thought we'd grab a quick glass of champagne at St Panc...
Web 2.0 Expo, swapping Berlin for the Bay Area
--I've just been booking travel and accomodation for Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. I went to the European version last year in Berlin and it was a ...
I am having an iPhone love in moment.
--I am having an iPhone love in moment. Watching a DVD at home, like the look of a couple of the trailers, browsed to lovefilm.com and queued them u...
Is mobile blogging the answer to blog torpor?
--As regular readers will know, I had a bit of a blogging hiatus through December. Truth is I just got out of the habit. I got busy and my blog was ...
iPhone is a bit player
--Very good article by Ewan at SMSTextNews on why he thinks the iPhone is revolutionary but it hasn't really changed anything and won't do until the...
SLAP - ANNOUNCE Message
--The ANNOUNCE message is the core message in SLAP. Sent as a UDP broadcast, it announces information about a service to the network. It's purpose i...
