Posted by Jason on Mar 24, 2008 in
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We’ve been writing about the cell phone market at the Skydeck blog for almost a year without ever saying what Skydeck plans to do. That’s been pretty frustrating, since what we’re working on has implications for many of the problems that we’ve talked about here.
Skydeck still hasn’t launched — you need an invitation to join our beta test — but as of today we’re no longer a secret.
Skydeck is building an online service that will help people to take control of their cell phones and their cell phone bills.
First, we’re unlocking the valuable information hidden in your cell phone bill. (more…)
Posted by Dan on Feb 25, 2008 in
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This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists, hosted by Taptu, summarizes some of the best mobile stories and blog perspectives of the week.
First off, we appreciate Taptu highlighting our story about SJA Mobile. Other topics include mobile applications, local search, the death of the mobile app, solutions for device fragmentation, Google’s Android, Twitter addiction (in a good way), implementation possibilities for mobile web 2.0, MWC recaps, ideas for Nokia apps synergies, and more.
Posted by mikew on Nov 6, 2007 in
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If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday and you have an interest in functional programming languages, come join us at the Bay Area Functional Programmers meeting. David Pollak will be giving a talk on Lift at 7:30pm at the Carnegie Institute on the Stanford campus. Last month’s talk on HAppS was excellent — we’ve integrated a couple of ideas from it into our system at Skydeck. Several of us from Skydeck will be there, so we hope you can make it too.
Posted by Jason on Aug 28, 2007 in
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If any of you are going to the following events leave a note in the comments …
We’ll be at Motorola’s MOTODEV summit in San Jose, September 10-11, where we hope to learn more about the Motomagx platform. The people at Motorola have asked us to point out that there are two more summits in November in Beijing and London.
mocoNews have invited me to speak at a seminar in LA on September 20 entitled iPhone & Beyond: The Content Opportunities. Tickets are now on sale.
Finally, thanks to Darla Mack and Xen Mendehlson for including pieces from Skydeck in the Carnival of the Mobilists, their roundups of the best writing on mobile in recent weeks.
Posted by Jason on Jul 20, 2007 in
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Skydeck has moved into new offices in downtown San Mateo. We didn’t realize it at the time, but San Mateo is becoming a center of development for wireless. Our neighbors include AdMob, Glu, Mobile Complete, Digital Chocolate, Gemini Mobile, Talkplus, Tira Wireless, and Vivendi Games Mobile.
Our landlord is surprised at all the activity in his ’sleepy little town.’ We’re not. Our office is 25 minutes from San Francisco, 25 minutes from Palo Alto, and four blocks from the Caltrain station.
When we are not testifying to Congress, we are writing code and working our way through San Mateo’s ninety restaurants. Join us.
Thanks to C. Enrique Ortiz for singling out Skydeck in this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists.
Posted by Jason on Apr 7, 2007 in
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Skydeck is a new company, founded by Jason Devitt and Mike Wells. We haven’t announced what we’re up to yet, beyond saying that we have ‘a new approach to the market for mobile and wireless services’, but if you subscribe to this blog you’ll be one of the first to know.
In the meantime we have lots of opinions about the current market for mobile and wireless services, which we will be venting here. We think that almost everything about this market could be improved: buying a mobile phone, using a mobile phone, the high cost of phone service, the technology, the regulatory framework, the structure of the market itself.
You may or may not agree with us, but either way we want to hear from you. All spam-free comments are welcome. We promise to be polite and we ask the same of you. We hope that you stick around.
