Michael Voong HCI Researcher @ Birmingham University

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Posts from December 2006

Twitter.com - SMS Status Updates

Just a quick post here, I swear. Thanks to Simon Hammond, I bumped into a website called Twitter.com (here’s a link to my page). It’s a site where users can post one sentence summaries about themselves, like “I’m bored and want to watch a movie”, or “I’m not single anymore”. The different to Facebook’s status [...]


Followup Post on MobiSites

As promised, here’s a followup post. For your convenience, here’s the scenarios I laid out in the previous post:

I haven’t seen my friend for a while. I used to live near to this friend, so I always knew how they were doing. Now, they’ve moved to another Country, so it’s more difficult. I want a [...]


Mobile Personal Web Servers

I’ve been following part of Nokia’s research that’s being done in their Helsinki headquarters and MIT collaborative efforts. One interesting area of research is the development of the concept of running web servers on our mobile phones. This may at first strike as being a waste of time - “web servers aren’t designed for mobile [...]