There’s a wonderful piece at Mobile Opportunity that analyzes the slow demise of the hand-tuned mobile application for dedicated stacks.  The punch is in the last paragraph, and there are analogues here between mobile carriers and all other last-gen sectors that market and provide information - publishers, libraries, newspapers.
In the mobile world, what have we [...]

Through an announcement from the I-School at UC Berkeley, I was alerted to an essay in the online magazine Bidoun. The essay, by Binyavanga Wainaina, forces one to rethink and reconsider how technology might be truly transformative by placing the emphasis on how people actually live their lives, leveraging how information is already used [...]