Archive for the ‘Event’

My LOLCats Week Ends with Capshuning

September 28, 2008 By: admin Category: Event, Yahoo! 2 Comments →

ICHC

Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami, co-founders of I Can Has Cheezburger were in Bay Area from Hawaii to meet with Lolcat fans this week, for HappyCat Happy Hour and LOLZoo at San Francisco Zoo, also made visit to Yahoo! Sunnyvale campus for LOL Talk too.

I have fixed some bugs on my ICHC Yahoo mobile widget, attended the talk, got an autographed ICHC book, participated LOLZoo at San Francisco Zoo, and now I am “capshun” ing for the animal pics.

Yes, I am officially a crazy cat lady.

See the LOLZoo pics at Flickr!

oneConnect Announcement at CTIA (and 49ers)

September 10, 2008 By: admin Category: Event, Yahoo!, iPhone 2 Comments →

keynote at ctia

My big boss, Marco took to the keynote stage at CTIA at Moscone West today, to announce a few things including Blueprint update and (insert drum roll here) oneConnect iPhone application.

Yes, Yahoo’s iPhone app is finally out and available at iPhone App store now! Congrats iPhone app team! Go home and sleep!!!

Also, those who attended CTIA, hope you guys didn’t miss Roger Craig and Dana Stubblefield at Yahoo! booth.

Yahoo booth at ctia me getting autograph by Roger Craig

Dev.mobi Event at Palo Alto

May 31, 2008 By: admin Category: dotMobi, Event, WAP, Dev No Comments →

dev.mobi 

Today, I had a chance to attend dev.mobi developers’ session at Palo Alto.

I am actually a user of their web tools and documentations, and really like the way they are trying to set standard for developers.

In today’s session, I was able to find out more about their ongoing projects. Paul Nerger of dotMobi, explained the interesting new product from them is called Device Atlas. This is a comprehensive database of mobile device information, such as hardware info, OS, browser. supported graphic format etc., with easy-to-follow GUI. The first version was just released a few months ago and they are now working on new features such as integrations with Ready.mobi test suite, W3C checker Firefox plugin, providing analytics and competitive benchmarking.

One of the biggest pain for me to work on mobile web is a cross-browser issue. Surely there’re thousands of mobile devices means thousands of different browsers. I already appreciate for the OMA and WURFL for the data, so with more partners like Nokia, Vodafone, Volantis etc. Device Atlas seems to be so promising fore more accurate info.The data is available as json files. So for example, to get the screen resolution of a certain device, get the UA and simply call its json data.

By the way, just like me, Paul doesn’t like the term “WAP”. I do use the term to distinguish it from desktop web, but I always felt some sort of awkwardness to say it. Yeah, WAP rhymes with crap, right Paul!

have been busy (again) for MWC

February 16, 2008 By: admin Category: Event, Yahoo!, WAP, iPhone No Comments →

OK, I guess 3GSM is an old name, now it’s called Mobile World Congress.

Anyway, although it’s been pretty crazy and sad weeks for Yahoo, inc., my team kept me busy working on WAP products to be announced on MWC.

For this beta, despite we wanted virtually all WAP2 xhtml-devices, I barely managed the popular devices including Blackberry 87xx/88xx and Razr V3/6/9 excl. the original V3.

Blackberry

Although there’s more work to be done, at least the beta was launched during MWC. However, RIM had Blackberry network outage at that time…

Also, Blueprint dev kit is now available.

blueprint.png

Yahoo! Mobile Beta finally launched so we can sleep.

January 09, 2008 By: admin Category: Event, Yahoo!, WAP, Nokia, iPhone No Comments →

We finally launched Yahoo! Mobile Web beta (http://beta.m.yahoo.com) for limited high-end devices including iPhone, Nokia N-Series, also Windows Mobile incl. Moto Q, Palm Treo this morning.

Next project - launching for more devices, and int’l support for 3GSM. Nearly all engineers gave up Vegas… so can we go to Barcelona next month instead? Pretty please por favor?

Live from CES in Vegas…. not!

January 07, 2008 By: admin Category: Event, Yahoo! No Comments →

canceled my flight for Vegas, working my @ss off here in Sunnyvale…The official launch for the new Y! Mobile web beta is tonight. I need some rest.

Oh well, here’s some Y! stuff for CES (Opening Video for Jerry’s Keynote):