Presentation at MoMoVan

Over the last seven months, I've had a the great pleasure to build an iPhone application for Canpages. This all came about from meeting Olivier Vincent at Mobile Mondays Vancouver, a WINBC event that happens every first monday of the month.

Here's a video produced by Bruce Sharpe, of myself recounting our experience:
http://brucesharpe.blogspot.com/2008/12/aaron-hilton-founder-and-cto-of-cellmap.html




- Aaron.

Make Wireless Better

It's clear we need better wireless service in Canada.

Check out this Petition for Bill C-555, which aims to make wireless carriers behave themselves.

What I don't understand is how Rogers, Bell, and Telus believe they are actually making a better deal for themselves. It's common sense that confusing billing means lower adoption. Lower adoption means less overall revenue.

The carriers are definitely making good revenue, but it could be so much better for everybody. Lower tech support costs, happier customers, and significantly more uptake.

There's potential, but it seems to be blocked by a combination of greed and fear. Fear that they'll lose a massive chunk of revenue, and the repercussion by their shareholders. I guess when your company gets so large it becomes terrifying to make a bold entrepreneurial moves.

Building for the Fortune 5,000,000

Building CellMap for the last year has been an incredibly enlightening experience.  I think David Heinemeier (author of Ruby on Rails) really captured the lessons learned over the past year.  You can build a successful business sanely.

Check it out!  Very cool perspective.