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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

This morning while using the handy but less-than-ideal Gmail application while commuting, I realized that Xobni could be tremendously useful on a smartphone. So useful, in fact, that it could be the only interface that’s really needed, not just a sidebar for an existing mobile email application.

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… is that while the country is the world’s second-fastest growing telecom markets (an astounding 5 million new connections per month), its adoption of high-end mobile technology is far behind the rest of the world. Here are two contrasting articles from BusinessWeek and The Financial Express, that highlight the growing divide between growth at the low end and the high end.

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We already live in a world where, thanks to Google, all the information we’ll ever need is available in seconds. The next stage is going to be about answering this question: Now that we have all this information, how do we best leverage it to make a difference to our daily lives? You see, today, all of Google’s magic has been confined to the web browser, to static Web pages. Google’s now trying to drive its expertise to revolutionize every aspect of our communication. The building blocks are already in place, and Google’s already begun the effort of trying to put these together, with potentially astounding results. This essay is a hypothesis of how Google, in the next three to five years, could leverage all the applications and services it offers today, and offer unprecedented integration to get users to live “The Google Lifestyle”: where Google is an omnipresent tool that we will all use.

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