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Your contact list and calendar events on your mobile phone have nothing to do with the contacts and calendar items on your Outlook, even though most of them are the same. For instance, you store contact numbers in your phone and email info in Outlook’s contacts. Shouldn’t they both be connected? Shouldn’t the reminders/events you set on your phone, or the meetings you enter in your Outlook calendar be available at your desk and while you’re on the go?

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Today’s article on Mashable proves a prediction I made months ago about the superiority of native mobile phone applications over mobile web-based ones.

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Having waded thru non-stop coverage of the iPhone 3G on the blogosphere and twittersphere the past several days (speculation, anticipation, purchase, review, musings), I wonder if one needs to follow an entirely different set of people to understand what the mobile world is really like, and where it’s headed.

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What do we put online today? What sort of people put all those things online? Is there a pattern? And is there a way you can figure out whom to target with your web startup? (And how much money you need to make from each user?)

We began leaving a data trail online with email in the late 90s with Hotmail, all the way to actual videos with YouTube. Major landmarks were search history with Yahoo! and then Google, and profile information with Myspace (and then Orkut and FB).  Today we put not only text, but photos, music, video, maps online. Read more