On the way...

Enters stage left...

We have the test Nokia N770 on the way. Purchased one on e-Bay last night. I expect it to be here early next week.

We have also secured skipAIR.com web space. There are no definite plans for a web presence yet, but Dustin and I will flesh that out as needed.

More ideas are coming to the surface. The "floating bubble" concept was "floated" out there this morning. As a contact comes online, that person is caught in a bubble and floats around the screen. To engage the contact, just touch the bubble. If the person goes offline, the bubble "pops"!

Now on to the chase of technology's promise...

skipAIR - The Thought

This blog is a tool for logging the development cycle of a newly named project: skipAIR. Like most things tech, the name is based in concept more so than reality.

As my brother put it:

I envision a stone that skips across the atmosphere, sort of kind’ve, from here to there.

In short, the product prototype will display a given social network's online "buddy images" or "buddy icons" in some application. The catch will be that these images will be displayed on a portable or placed device that has web access (wireless or hardwired) and controlled through a web service of some type.

So far the Nokia N770 Internet Tablet has been chosen as the visual display device. This choice is mostly due to its low cost, stable portable Linux OS distribution (2006), and built in web functionality.

We plan to use the Maemo open source SDK for the display device while most likely using a .NET C# solution for the managing application.

This idea was prompted by a post on Gizmodo that seemed to beg for a real solution. So, here we go.