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I’m at #momoto April 5 event right now. The topic is Google Presents Insights on Mobile Devices.

Rough content outline:

1. Mobile devices (phones) is a super computer (when compared with super computers in the early 90s). They are also sensing the environment for people (location, touch, etc).
2. Browsers are the starting point of many activities.
3. HTML5 makes browsers more powerful and useful as mobile apps. CSS acceleration (nearly native UIs are possible), SQL local storage (offline data storage), application cache (application startup), geolocation API (demoing buzz), CSS transforms and touch (gmail two-pane UI). They also demoed http://css-vfx.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/snowstack/snowstack.html as an example of CSS effects.
4. Q&A, which is the more interesting part.

Some thoughts:

1. I feel that the people attending #momoto is a different crowd from the ones going to the usual startup events in Toronto. They are on average dressier. I’ve also noticed there were a lot more women attending this than democamp, etc.
2. Probably because the audience is less technical, the talk is a little bit shallow. Most of the points are extremely well known and understood already by anyone who comes from a technical background and pays reasonable attention to techcrunch or gizmodo.