Simeda's CTO Razvan Dragomirescu showed me an interesting bit of software they're working on for PocketPC called 'Pocket Rendezvous,' a port of the Rendezvous easy networking system (commonly used by OSX applications, although it works just fine on PC, too). Using Pocket Rendezvous, users can set up a personal, auto-discoverable web servers for a variety of purposes, such as matchmaking services (think broadcasted business cards or personal ads), private music streaming (be the mysterious F train DJ!), or anything else a crafty developer can build on top of the Rendezvous setup (iTunes, for instance, uses Rendezvous to do the quick-sharing of music libraries). The software isn't released yet, though, and Razvan is looking for a few beta testers to give Pocket Rendezvous a swing before they officially launch the product in June. If you were to email, say razvan.dragomirescu then add one of those squiggly ear looking symbols to simeda.com, you could probably email him and he'd give you the details.

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Although it took them three writers to do it, Newsweek takes a look at the smartphone trend, trying to pose the seemingly deep question "Will Phones Replace PCs?" while blissfully ignoring the fact that the only possible answer is, you know, 'maybe.' That's some thought-provocation right there. Still, there's some good stuff in the article, like a stop-smoking program that sends encouraging messages to Japanese students, and (hypothetical?) examples of two single people hooking up in a bar using Symbian Dater.

Which reminds me, I've been meaning to ask if any of you have been hooking up via these social mobile applications like Symbian Dater or Dodgeball. And I don't just mean 'hooking up with your friends.' I mean, 'hooking your interface meats up to anonymous or recently met humans.' If you send me something put [MobiHump] or something in the subject so my spam filter doesn't eat it.
Read [MSNBC.MSN via Textually]

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