I got this idea about mobile advertising a couple years ago. Since then, I have been writing this in my note whenever I have time.  About two month ago, I started writing specification and drawing to file a provisional patent and finally finished it this week and mailed it in to USPTO today!  Provisional Patent gives me one additional year to test and market my invention before investing in the cost of a regular patent. But, if I decide to file a foreign patent, I need to file it within a year. Anyway, I am glad it is finally over—at least the first part—and I hope it pans out.

I recommend this book “Patent It Yourself” from NOLO. It’s a detailed step-by-step guide to filing a patent.

I am a member of these three user group and meetup.

If you live in the San Francisco bay area, please join:

The International Macintosh Users Group

Silicon Valley iPhone iPad Business Meetup

Bay Area Machine Translation User

I was there at Innovate 2009 and it was interesting to see how simple and powerful it is to integrate PayPal APIs to a website. Here are Keynotes and Breakout Sessions from Innovate 2009. Enjoy.

https://www.x.com/docs/DOC-1584

Firebug

- download:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843

- tutorials:

http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/screencast/firebug-js/

http://youtube.com/watch?v=W4jXAaEMp2M

Live HTTP Header

- download:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3829

Microsoft Surface:

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/07/cgs-ces-highlights-hands-on-with-the-surface/

Is it a MS innovation? or a half-MS innovation inspired by Apple?
Whatever it is, I really like the idea. Imagine the Surface in games, airlines, restaurants, schools, living rooms, etc. A lot of potentials.

MS deserves some credits for this.

Bill Gates’ last day at Microsoft:

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080107/bill-gates-last-day-microsoft-video/

Dojo:

http://www.translation-help.net/js/dojo-release-1.0.2/dijit/themes/themeTester.html

- It’s a complete toolkit with i18n support, but slow… (Plaxo 3.0, KnowHow, etc)

Scriptaculous with Prototype:

http://www.translation-help.net/js/scriptaculous-js-1.8.0/test/run_functional_tests.html

- Light and easy to use. It seems to be more popular. No i18n support yet. (Digg, Apple, Wordpress, eBay, Nasa, etc)

- Prototype Cheat Sheet:

http://attic.scripteka.com/prototype_cheatsheet_1.6.0.2.pdf

prototype_cheatsheet_1602.pdf

http://thinkweb2.com/projects/prototype/

Facebook Animation:

http://www.translation-help.net/js/animation-1.0/test.html

- Just open sourced it. Very simple. No drag & drop support yet.

jMaki:

https://ajax.dev.java.net/eclipse/index.html

RSS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU

Social Networking:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc

PR Web:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yU8R42AL0U

WIKI:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

Google’s My location:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhgNZ5wMz2A

Google Docs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muVUA-sKcc4