MMS Officially Huge

If you haven’t read our friend, Tomi Ahonen’s post “Everything you ever wanted to know about mobile, but were afraid to ask” over at Communities Dominate Brands, you really should. It’s a little long (no surprises there from our Tomi!) but is worth every minute you invest reading it. This applies if you’re a died-in-the-wool [...]

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Euro Mobile Events 2: WIPJam @ IT-Profits, Berlin, June 9

As I said earlier, I’ll be over in Berlin on June 9 for the WIPJam @ IT-Profits, an event running alongside LinuxTag. The focus of this Jam is on mobile business solutions and enterprise development, and the agenda is shaping up nicely with speakers from Xing, Intel, Feedhenry, Visiarc, Getjar, Yoose, Enough Software, Augmented Citizen [...]

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Euro Mobile Events 1: Mobile 2.0 Europe, Barcelona, June 17

MH pal Rudy de Waele is once again hosting the Mobile 2.0 Europe event in Barcelona next month. It sounds like he’s put together a great group of speakers covering a host of interesting topics:
Mobile 2.0 Europe Developer Conference is a one-day event in Barcelona on June 17, 2010 exploring the future of mobile [...]

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London’s Calling

Man alive! As the cool kids are starting to say again. It’s been a while since I posted here – Twitter is a cruel and selfish mistress.
Just wanted to write that I’m in London next week for 3 interesting speaking events – all different, but all very interesting.
Monday sees me chairing a very distinguished panel [...]

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Catching Up On Things… New Degree, New Job, New City

Many of you know I’ve been working on my MBA here in Las Vegas for the last couple of years. I’m happy to announce that I’m very nearly finished with it, and graduate on Saturday! With that accomplished, there are some changes coming for me. First, I’m glad to say that my wife and I [...]

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Carnival of the Mobilists #217

The mighty Carnival of the Mobilists has rolled into town again, this week at Martin Wilson’s Indigo102. Check it out for the very best of this week’s blogging about mobile.
If you’re a blogger, you should volunteer to host a Carnival in the next month or two. It’s interesting to do, but it also boosts your [...]

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Unintended Consequences and the Success of Blackberry in the Middle East

I’m attending ArabNet currently, which is a large web conference taking place in Beirut. I’m speaking tomorrow, so if you’re here too let me know if there’s anything you’d like me to cover – and come and say hello.
One of the interesting aspects of the region is the huge success of Blackberry over and above [...]

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Offensive Advertising

French Connection, (aka FCUK) no stranger to courting controversy, announced today a joint promotion with Chatroulette. If you’ve been on digital hunger-strike recently, Chatroullette is a service which allows you to video conference with a series of random sad blokes and their penises. Rumours of girls using the service are yet to be confirmed by [...]

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More on Geofencing and Location-Based Messaging

I got a couple of responses in via email to my earlier post on geofence-triggered mobile ads. Matt Silk, SVP of mobile messaging company Waterfall Mobile took an interest in the post, as his company just announced a deal with WaveMarket to add location functionality to its messaging platform. We did a short interview via [...]

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Mobile (and MobHappy!) at SXSW

I’m excited to be returning to Austin for a visit in a couple of weeks, not just because I’ll get to spend my birthday with a ton of great friends, but also because it’s South by Southwest time. It’s been pretty amazing to watch how SXSW Interactive has grown over the years, and particularly how [...]

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