the future workplaces of gmail spammers

There was a time when life online was simple. You could have several email accounts with different names disconnected from one another and use one for your finances, one for work, one for personal email, one for letting all those "internet people" contact you, one for signing up to websites, and one just there so that you write obnoxious emails to people without them knowing who you are.

My god, I have too many email addresses.

Then, back in June of 2009, we reported that our favourite mail provider--gmail--asked us to input a mobile phone for sign up. A month later the web was a flood with messages and complaints. Many people who do not have cellphones were finding that their text-based medium of choice was now requiring them to have access to another text-based medium.

This week I want to take another look at what happened, why it happened, and what you can do about it.

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We're reaching critical mass

The mobile web is reaching a critical mass. The amount of mobile surfers is increasing dramatically, and we're set for an explosion. CNN's mobile site traffic has gone from 2.7 million page views a month, when it launched, to over 30 million. Neilsen reports that mobile growth has occurred 8x faster than PC internet growth. Smart phone adoptions rates are skyrocketing, and the iPhone appears to be leading the pack. We are starting to see long-term trends forming, and I think that in our thinking on "the mobile web" we are missing that the effects of mobile browsing is not going to be limited to cellphones.

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35 years after its implementation at PARC...

Yesterday Apple announced it. Yes, the thing you've all been waiting for. The greatest development in iPhone history. A change so monumental that it will fundamentally change how we use our iPhones and iPods forever.

Apple implemented copy and paste into the iPhone's OS.

Biz. Pop. Bang. Wow. Lets go party like its 1974!

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To hold it is to love it. To first behold it is was almost spiritual - certainly sensual. But the iPhone is not a Cell Phone, as the table will show.

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Adobe has recently released their new Creative Suite CS3.

As a part of this release they have included an application called Device Central.

This application allows developers to test their content, including Flash Lite applications, on a broad range of mobile phones and electronic devices and should help increase the number of developers creating pertinent content for mobile devices.

Device Central will also be able to download updated device profiles on a regular basis so that developers can stay up to date with the devices they are developing their content for.