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About The Open Gardens Blog

I (Ajit) founded the blog on May 26, 2005 based on my vision and philosophy of OpenGardens i.e. the philosophical opposite of 'walled gardens' especially as applicable to the mobile data industry.

Today, the OpenGardens blog is one of the few blogs that span both the Web and the Mobile domains.

The blog covers wireless/mobile applications, open networks and mobile web 2.0. My vision behind the OpenGardens blog has been :

  • The blog is about the Mobile data industry and Digital convergence('Mobile web 2.0')
  • Analysis is more important than story/controversy. I don't believe that bloggers are true journalists. The blog is not about the latest 'story' but it's more about independent analysis/viewpoint
  • The OpenGardens blog is broadly about opening up the networks, growing digital usage and digital businesses i.e. we don't advocate closed networks, broadcast media etc
  • It is about disruptive digital technologies

Founder and Chief blogger : Ajit Jaokar

Ajit Jaokar is the founder of the London based publishing and research company futuretext (www.futuretext.com) focussed on emerging Web and Mobile technologies -including Web 2.0 and Mobile Web 2.0.

His thinking is widely followed in the industry and his blog, the OpenGardensBlog (www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com), which was recently rated a top 20 wireless blog worldwide

In 2009-2010, Ajit was nominated as part of the Global Agenda Council on the Future of the Internet by the world economic forum. He hopes to use this opportunity to further extend the pragmatic viewpoint of the evolution of Telecoms networks in an open ecosystem.

(Note: The Network of Global Agenda Councils plays a significant role in shaping the global agenda by monitoring global issues and elaborating recommendations to address them. Each Council, comprised of 15-20 Members, serves as an advisory board to the Forum and other interested parties, such as governments and international organizations. The Global Agenda Councils also act as the intellectual drivers of the World Economic Forum's Global Redesign Initiative, an unprecedented international, multistakeholder and multimedia dialogue that aims to develop a 21st-century vision of global cooperation. Members of the G20, the UN and other International Organizations have pledged their support for this initiative. )

Ajit is best known for his books Mobile Web 2.0, Social Media Marketing. Two new books ('Open Mobile' and 'Implementing Mobile Web 2.0') are being released in 2009.

His consulting activities include working with companies to define value propositions across the device, network, Web and Social networking stack spanning both technology and strategy. He has worked with a range of commercial and government organizations globally including The European Union, Telecoms Operators, Device manufacturers, social networking companies and security companies in various strategic and visionary roles

His recent talks and forthcoming talks include: CEBIT 2009;MobileWorld Congress(2007, 2008, 2009); Keynote at O Reilly Web20 expo (April 2007);Keynote at Java One; European Parliament – Brussels – (Electronic Internet Foundation); Stanford University's Digital visions program;MIT Sloan;Fraunhofer FOKUS ; University of St. Gallen (Switzerland); Mobile Web Strategies (partner event of CTIA in San Francisco)

Media appearances include BBC – Newsnight – 3phone launch; CNN money; BBC digital planet

Ajit chairs Oxford University's Next generation mobile applications panel and conducts a course on Web 2.0, Social networking, Mobile Web 2.0 and LTE services at Oxford University.

Ajit lives in London, UK, but has three nationalities (British, Indian and New Zealander) and is proud of all three. He is currently doing a PhD on Privacy and Reputation systems at UCL in London. Ajit is a fan of animation especially Tom and Jerry, Tintin and Asterix and likes the music of ZZ Top and other rock bands

You can contact me at ajit.jaokar at futuretext.com

You can follow me on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/AjitJaokar

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September 12, 2006

How will iPod games affect mobile games?

As Apple launches games on iPod/iTunes - how will this affect ‘mobile’ games i.e. games run on phones? If Apple goes WiFi in future, then it may well be able to achieve it’s dream of combining some mobile phone like features but without going through the telco network

Thanks to William Volk for pointing this article out to me

from pocket gamer

The fifth-generation iPods will be able to play a range of casual games, taking them head-on into competition with your mobile phone as a gaming device. Jobs announced that the games will be sold on the iTunes store for $4.99 each in the US – presumably around a fiver here in the UK, although less if we’re lucky.

The first tranche of iPod games for sale on iTunes are as follows:

Bejeweled — The super-popular colour matching game

Tetris — The original and still the best

PAC-MAN — Still scary after all these years

Vortex — A shoot-’em-up

Zuma — Like Bejewelled only this time you slide balls

Texas Hold ‘Em — Get into the poker craze

Mini Golf — Holy Apple, it’s a golf game

Mahjong — Centuries old tile-matching

Cubis 2 — Another colour matching game, this time with cubes

Anyone want to bet the development environment is 10x better than anything we see on phones?

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Filed under: mobile web 2.0 — ajit @ 10:57 pm

3 Comments »

  1. Hey
    I just finished watching the live event and this announcement got me excited. I don’t usually watch the Apple events. This “iPod games” and Xbox Live are chaning how we think about and play games. I wonder if anyone will be able to develope games in the future for the system and sell them on the Apple Store?
    Duane

    Comment by Duane — September 12, 2006 @ 11:37 pm

  2. Sure, it’s probably easiest to develop for a single proprietary platform than for many different ones….
    However, seems that no SDK exists yet…May be a closed garden?

    Comment by Thomas Landspurg — September 14, 2006 @ 11:32 am

  3. This may be relevant: the mobile and handheld games website Pocket Gamer has started reviewing iPod games in their own section. Interestingly Zuma gets a higher score on iPod than mobile (control better for such a game?)
    The new section is here:
    http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/latest.asp?sec=6

    Comment by JulesJ — September 27, 2006 @ 11:43 pm

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