This article I written originally for the Insight Guide - A monthly Lifestyle Magazine for readers in Brighton and surrounding areas. The article gives newcomers to mobile internet a reason to take its future seriously and look ahead to what’s coming soon on the mobile platform.

There is only one web, the principle of making the same information and services to users regardless of the way they access it. No doubt about it, the number of mobile devices we choose to interact with websites and online applications is increasing, comared to just desktop computers. Mobile will revolutionise they way we gather and intereact with information in the next 2 years, and this is using the mobile in your pocket, not just the iPhone.
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The latest event from Carsonified is The Future of Web Design, which was held in London this week. These are the notes from some of the speakers presentations.

The theme for the event focused on creative approaches for design:
The main ways for the speakers we by ‘changing your perspectives’ and ‘asking and collaborating with other people for ideas’.

Inspiration vs duplication - Often leads to designs being directly copied as its easier, but leads to abuse. How do we go about doing the right thing? By looking for elements that solve problems in intersting ways.

Inspiration. Takes practice and is never ending process. Lead to wealth of ideas that you can apply to web design

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The fastest growing language in Europe in Nerdic, a collection of buzz words and phrases used by computer geeks to describe new gizmos, say researchers. A hundred new words per year are added to Nerdic, which contains all three core elements that define a language - words, phrases and pronounciations.

Two of the latest are Wimax, a supersized wi-fi that gives entire cities internet coverage, and UGC, which refers to User Generated Content online such as Facebook.

Further reading: Geek speak rule at Wired.com

We are pleased to be invited to sign up to the Company Customer Pact.

This reinforces the values with which we follow in our day to day working lives here. Particularly these two which are on the charter.

1. Be human. Use a respectful, conversational voice, avoid scripts and never use corporate doublespeak.
2. Demonstrate your good intentions by speaking plainly, earnestly and candidly with customers about problems that arise

We think things would be very confusing if we didn’t share our knowledge, issues and foster and long term reputation with the company.

We hope you think so too, voice your support in doing business like all the folks at CCPact, by signing up as well.

For those that want to find out about the presentations, and for indeed the people that made it, but couldn’t missed panels that ‘rawked’. Check out the links below to relive some of the panels back in March from SxSw 2008:

http://video.sxsw.com/2008/mov/ Movie - Quicktime

http://video.sxsw.com/2008/swf/ Flash - swf

http://video.sxsw.com/2008/mp4hi/ Audio - MP4