ThereÌs a very amusing booklet from the 1940Ìs at Contact Sheet. ItÌs full of startlingly obvious advice about how to use the Telephone. Stuff like ÏBe sure of your numberÓ and if you choose to ignore this little gem ÏApologize for wrong numbersÓ.
But then I thought. Actually, wouldnÌt it be great if todayÌs technologists:
1. Understood that [...]
Archive | May, 2004
How to Make Friends on the Telephone
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Youth spends more on mobile than music
Interesting little snippet here from Mobile Youth via New Media Zero.
It seems that under 25’s in the UK are spending 5 times as much on their mobiles as on music.
Hmmm….(stroking imaginary beard)…could this be why the music industry is going down the pan? Maybe it’s nothing to do with file sharing after all.
I’ve long argued [...]
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Mobile Novels
I know books have always been mobile. But now the mobile novel (novel on a mobile phone) is one of the surprise hits in Japan.
Trend Central reports most major publishers are jumping on the bandwagon following the huge success of Deep Love, the first of the genre.
The book was self-published by the author, Yoshi, [...]
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MMS Soars into a Brick Wall
Mike GrenvilleÌs excellent 160 Characters reports on some of the latest trends on MMS. It makes gruesome reading.
The NOP poll found that 83% of respondents had yet to send an MMS.
It also has some stats on MMS usage in 2003:
∑ France 23 Million
∑ Germany 37 Million
∑ Italy 20 Million
∑ Spain 17 Million
∑ Sweden 5 Million
∑ Switzerland 450,000
∑ UK 27 Million
While [...]
£500k Fine
Silicon.com reports that UK watchdog ICSTIS is getting heavy with mobile scammers. So far it’s handed out fines of more than £500k.
Scams come in two flavours:
1. SMS to people’s phones claiming that they’d won a prize. They then had to dial a Premium Rate number to claim. Only to find that they hadn’t really won [...]
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Navigate the Streets
Navigate the Streets is the latest urban “wired meets meat space” game to emerge. While it’s possible to participate in this race/scavenger hunt without gagetry, using technology gives you a distinct edge.
Race entrants are encouraged to use mobiles to help solve the clues – either by using WAP or by staying in touch with [...]
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ItÌs Disgraceful
Bryan of SmartMobs blogs a nice piece on the Japanese Prime Minister admonishing MPÌs for texting in Parliamentary sessions.
The national Asahi newspaper said Koizumi scolded 30 first-term lawmakers from his Liberal Democratic Party during a luncheon. “Don’t send e-mail on your cell phones or read comic books in Parliament while in session,” Koizumi was quoted [...]
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Urban Street Games
Hot on the heals of Pac Manhattan is the UKÌs answer to the challenge. Uncle Roy All Around You is part theatre, part console game and errr, let them tell you:
Uncle Roy All Around You is where the console game breaks out onto the streets; a game that pitches Online Players around the world alongside [...]
Mobile Scavenger Hunt
Mobile marketing is finally going mainstream Ò well, kind of.
Trend Central reports that Nike Operation 6453 is took place last weekend.
This on-foot scavenger hunt takes participants through the streets of New York to find 16 different poster locations. Those interested send a blank SMS to short code 6543 (NIKE) in order to receive registration instructions. [...]
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Familiar Strangers
A fascinating story about a new Intel initiative in The Feature:
based on the research of a brilliant Yale psychologist named Stanley Milgram, who died in 1984. One of the many remarkable ideas Milgram came up with was that of the “familiar stranger.” These are people that you see in public on a regular basis, but [...]
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