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I am a fan of Gmail as well as the Gmail mobile. I use it extensively to check my mails on my mobile phone. The mobile web portal Gmail has is clean and fast and I like it alot. I also use the POP feature of Gmail to retrieve the email onto my mobile phone Messaging. While not fantastic, it is okay for an offline system.

But nothing beats what I found yesterday, a Gmail mobile application by Google. Just point your mobile web browswer to http://gmail.com/app and it will auto-detect your phone and ask you to install the relevant application onto the phone as below.

And it is really really cool! It has all the shortkeys you expect. Press “8” twice to mark the email as spam, “9” to archive it, “4” to reply, “5” to reply all and “1” to search etc. But I have a 3 wish lists

1. The application is not tolerant to unstable mobile connections, which is pretty common until the mobile data quality is improved.

2. All editing are done in the native edit pad provided by Symbian on a horrible black on blue interface. I am sure they can do better

3. Please please do it for Google Calendar soon!

Finally found some time and catch up some news. Some of the news that matters to me enough for me to forward them around.

– ChinaPay Allies With International E-payment Partners

– YeePay Partners with Dang Dang for Online Marketplace

– PacNet introduces @irPower

– (Malaysia) WiMAX tender evaluation is now on

Oh yea, I also found my name on TheStar, Chic to be geek, an interview I did several weeks ago for and I nearly forgot about it. I think it is originally on ST Digital Life.

Trying out this moblogging tool by dave winer call YoMoBlog.com.

Not sure how useful tho. Its just a website that is customized for a mobile screen size, something most blogging tools can easily do. I was hoping to look for something like ecto on Symbian.

The Starfish and The Spider by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstorm

A friend recommended me the book 2 months ago. I went to Borders only to be told it will only come out in end Oct. It is a long wait but probably worth it. I havent read it yet but heck, the book has praises from Pierre Omidyar, Nicholas J. Nicholas, Paul Saffo among others.

Just got it and going to find sometime to enjoy the book ;-)

This is what you get when you tried to play World of Warcraft on a moving bus over 3G haha :-)

I met Martin in Japan few months ago where he talks about working with Taiwanese manufacturer to make customized base stations for FON. Downloading firmware into WRT54g may be fun for a technie but perhaps not for the masses. So why not make their own boxes? Afterall, you can easily find a manufacturer for US$20-25 (or less depending on the volumne).

Then FON went silent for a few months and then come back with this niffy fonera base station for US$5. So technie see technie do, I ordered one but nooooo…they dont ship to Singapore. :-(

But thanks to some friends in FON and pulling some string, I just got this in the fedex :-) Oh boy, cant wait to plug this in….

Veni just send me an email to inform me that Bulgarian Foreign Minister starts his blog, meets Paul Twomey and Joichi Ito, and uses CreativeCommons!

Minister Kalfin started his own blog, to be found at www.kalfin.eu, where he will be discussion issues about Bulgarian foreign policy, EU membership, etc. The blog is based on open source software – WordPress, and is the first such an initiative by a Bulgarian minister. Mr. Kalfin invited Joichi Ito to become an author at his blog – an invitation that was accepted by the famous Japanese IT-investor and blogger.

I didnt know Joi was in Bulgaria. I think I just went to a raid (in warcraft) with him a couple of days ago. Anyway, it is cool!

Then again, Singapore Foreign Minister, George Yeo also blog at BeyondSG. In fact, Singapore win with a Podcast :-)

Someone email me today and asked me if I have become a banker?

Hahaha.

I am still a technologist. And I hang around with bankers enough to know I am definitely not qualify to be one.

However, it was pretty flattering when Edwin (below) asked me the same question when I met him in Shanghai. He has seen some of the investment advisory I did and thought I was one, or have the training as one.

Thank you :-)

ps: A mentor did advise me to consider to explore a career in financial engineering. Afterall, it is still engineering :-)