Michael J. O'Farrell started his mobile Internet
career in the early 1990s, by pioneering the development of text
messaging, mobile-phone-based applications, and the mobile Web to
reach mass market audiences globally. In addition to consulting
companies on how to capitalize on the power of the mobile Internet,
he is vice chairman of ooober and chair of the dotMobi Advisory
Group. Michael wrote this book to help his friends, family, wife,
and two children in Toronto better understand his addiction to all
things mobile.
John R. Levine wrote his first program in 1967
on an IBM 1130 (a computer somewhat less powerful than your typical
modern digital wristwatch, only more difficult to use). Although
John used to spend most of his time writing software, now he mostly
writes books (including Internet For Dummies, published by
Wiley Publishing, Inc.) because it's more fun and he can do so at
home in the tiny village of Trumansburg, New York, where in his
spare time he was the mayor for several years.
Jostein Algroy is senior advisor for the
government of Ontario, Canada. He has been active in the mobile
space for more than 15 years as an international consumer market
strategist and published journalist. Jostein has taught
international business, strategy, new product development, and
design at Copenhagen Business School. He also works with
photography, having achieved awards and recognition for his art,
and looks forward to the day when mobile phones are equipped with
high-quality, 8-megapixel cameras.
James Pearce is the chief technology officer at
dotMobi. He has the mobile Web in his veins, having worked
previously at Argogroup and AnywhereYouGo and as the founder of the
"old school" mobile blog WAPtastic. Variously a management
consultant, a teacher, an orienteer, and an Oxford University
physicist by training, James has declared every year since 1997 to
be the Year of the Mobile Web. For the sake of his wife and two
children, with whom he lives happily in Dublin, we hope he's
finally right.
Daniel Appelquist is an American expatriate and
a dot-com refugee living in London, England, where he works as a
technology strategist for Vodafone, a company he represents in the
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), where he chairs the Mobile Web
Best Practices working group. He is an evangelist for mobile Web
topics, a published author, a frequent speaker, and a co-founder of
Mobile Monday London and the Mobile 2.0 conferences. You can
usually catch Dan mobile blogging while hanging out with his wife
and two kids.