http://candyspark.com/blog Mobile Sync for the Internet Age Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:08:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over the past two months, I've been focused on building the prototype for the Candyspark product. Since the last update, I've gotten my hands very dirty and now have an excellent sense of the technical challenges in making this work. It's exciting to see the pieces start to ... http://candyspark.com/blog/2008/03/11/status-update-march-2008/ Happy 2008, everyone! It's been a while since I posted here, so perhaps a status update is a good way to start the new year. Over the past weeks, I've been doing a lot of reading, brainstorming, whiteboarding, experimenting, diagramming, idea bouncing, mocking-up and proof-of-concept hacking, and now I feel ... http://candyspark.com/blog/2008/01/07/status-update-jan-2008/ Most major manufacturers of mobile phones have some form of desktop sync application, and there are several third-party products available as well. So why do I say there is a need for a different approach? These legacy sync applications were designed largely in the pre-Internet era, and largely fail to ... http://candyspark.com/blog/2007/11/06/desktop-sync-in-the-internet-age/ When discussing the issue of mobile-desktop-Internet sync with people, one question gets asked frequently:  Why involve the PC at all?  Why not have the mobile device access the Internet directly?  After all, every modern mobile phone has, by definition, a data connection back to a carrier network, over which various ... http://candyspark.com/blog/2007/11/01/why-sync-to-the-desktop-why-not-mobile-only/ Hi, my name is Cashman Andrus, and I've been thinking a lot over the past few years about the ways that mobile devices should work together with PCs and the Internet. I've typed and scribbled many notes, filled a lot of graph paper with diagrams, installed dozens of beta ... http://candyspark.com/blog/2007/11/01/candyspark-who/ Welcome, everyone!  Today is the first public mention of Candyspark, and here is the inaugural post on the new Candyspark blog. I'm launching Candyspark to develop mobile-to-desktop sync solutions for the Internet age.  That is, I plan to develop tools and applications to help people synchronize their mobile devices (especially phones) ... http://candyspark.com/blog/2007/10/29/hello-from-candyspark/