It’s raining hard in New York, today; on my way home, thinking of how to describe the event at Microsoft’s offices in midtown.

I spoke with people most of the time and attended one session about barcoding in Brooklyn, that was pretty interesting.

Mobile Barcoding is exciting, hot, new, but not well understood or utilized.

Exhausted, but the networking was excellent, and a lot of “where it’s all going” is Mobile.

Spoke for a while with Sebastian, about the state of Mobile; he thought not much changed since last year.

I’ll have more to say on this later.

Yeah, this demo of Android’s capabilities make me wonder if I should have waited a little longer before moving from TMobile to ATT (so I could get an iPhone).  I’m referring to Read Write/Web’s review of a prototype Android Phone - see RWW Predictions: Google’s Android vs. Apple’s iPhone.

To be honest, I don’t think the new TMobile Android phone will have all the features shown in the video clip, below, but it goes give pause - see Android: Google’s Dream, Apple’s Nightmare? in Time Magazine today.

The biggest departure from the iPhone design is the inclusion of a physical keyboard, which apparently slides out from underneath the Dream’s touchscreen. The Dream will also allow users to run multiple applications at once and more easily share contacts and data between them. And if reports from developers TIME interviewed prove true, mobile-phone users will finally be able to cut and paste text in emails — a function that’s frustratingly absent on the iPhone. The Dream, which is expected to go on sale in late October, will also reportedly cost the same as the 3G: $199.

Had I known this, had T Mobile had their act together, I would have waited and maybe got the Dream instead of the iPhone.   Oh well, it’s like ….. measuring Apples against … well…. Dreams…hmm…

Fact of the matter, what Apple has created with the iPhone, it’s technological advantage, is now, more or less, erased, with Google’s Android Platform.

It’s a fact of life that any advancement, via Technology, is copyable - I’m sure Apple has it sewn up with Branding and Entertainment.

And Interestingly, while the 3G Iphone runs at 600 MHZ, according to this clip, the phone running Android, was running at 300 MHZ and drew screens and allowed Voice and Data to be active at the same time (not sure the iPhone does that).

Again, an interesting read.

Just wrote about this in Smartmobs - Google Jaiku - that Google buys social mobile startup Jaiku (according to TechCrunch).

I'm still getting a lot of Dodgeball messaging but I never really figured out how to use Dodgeball for anything much useful.  In fact, Dodgeball tells me where someone is or has been, but not where they're going to be in 30 minutes - which doesn't give me enough time to meetup, unless, the person I'm meeting up with is a still as a rock.

According to TechCrunch:

"..There will be inevitable comparison’s with Google’s acquisition of Dodgeball, which largely came to nothing, but it would appear that the time for social networking and blogging via mobile has come. Google’s ability to add scale and marketing muscle to Jaiku should be putting Twitter on the back-foot right now."

Dodgeball came to nothing because Dodgeball doesn't do much of anything.  Don't know anything much about Jaiku, but I bet I soon will know more about it, now that the big G has bought it.

I wrote a long post and just lost it - did not save it the right way.  Oh well, maybe I can write that same post in one or two paragraphs - here goes:

According to The Web Analytics Report form CMS Watch there are only two Web Analytics Solutions, of those profiled, that track Mobile Communications - Omniture Site Catalyst (page 146) using Mobile Web Beacons and tracking the mobile device ID (page 147) and AuriQ's RT Metrics Package.  That's useful to know when your thinking of what Web Analytics solution will scale to your organization and the things you need to measure.

At the same time, I was thinking about how much communications are moving to Mobile Devices - and how little we, as Web Analysts, are set up to measure it.  I hope Analytics Vendors start collecting more data, and better filters, for mobile metrics.

OK, that was the very short point of a much longer post - that disappeared in Movable Type Ether.