Bookcrossing is a new form of location based social networking, that I think is really cool, even if it doesn’t really involve technology. Bookcrossing n. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise. (added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary in [...]
Archive | December, 2004
Pay Your $100
Back in August, I predicted that Apple would be launching an iPhone in conjunction with Motorola within 18 months. In fact, I bet all-comers $100 that I would be right. Yesterday, the venerable Engadget reports: Apple officially announced some kind of cellphone partnership which would result not just in a Motorola phone that is iTunes [...]
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Kids are Mob Happy
If ever you needed proof that kids are crazy about mobiles, this coverage of a BBC initiative gives it to you. Ariel, the BBC staff newspaper printed some top line results of a wider survey of children, as part of the Charter Review process. You’ll notice a common theme: “They could text telling us about [...]
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You Can’t Speak and Surf at the Same Time!
There’s an interesting interview on The Feature with Nokia’s games guru Greg Costikyan. It’s slightly downbeat, which is a little odd when you consider mobile gaming is about to explode. If you believe analysts, of course and when they agree with me, I do But there’s one thing that I’d never thought about before, although [...]
Someone Gets It!
I’ve been writing a bit about the record industry’s denial issues recently. So it’s nice to see that someone finally gets what’s happening in the industry. Permission-based marketing God, Seth Godin, spoke at a “closed” conference for the music industry. Here’s the unexpurgated notes of one of the attendees. It’s like a light goes on [...]
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The Age of the Pro:Am
It seems that we’re entering a new age where amateurs are beginning to produce work that competes and even exceeds the quality of that produced by professionals. This has pretty much always been the case with artists – if you’re a painter, a sculptor or even a novelist, you normally have to start out as [...]
Mobile Price Comparison
Last year social networking sites seem to be the vibe, despite no definable business model. Today, hardly a month seems to pass before another mobile price comparison service is announced. UpSnap are the latest to launch with their “Scrooge Buster” in the US. But unlike other competitors, this one is free, apart from the cost [...]
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MPAA Have Shit for Brains – Official!
Sometimes we can all be forgiven for not learning from others’ mistakes. Maybe we’re not aware that the mistakes that have been made. Or perhaps we fail to notice the parallels. But the similarities between the much publicised RIAA’s largely unsuccessful actions and the ones just about to be embarked on my their retarded cousins [...]
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Media Fragmentation
Mass media continues to fragment at an alarming rate – especially alarming if you work in the media, advertising or a brand wedded to a traditional media strategy of TV and Press. The Guardian* reports: In 2004 it seems that just six TV shows managed to attract an audience of more than 15 million people [...]
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Barcodes are Real World Hyperlinks?
I wrote an article over at Net Imperative about my increasing interest in Location – I was beginning to think that Location Based Services were about as relevant to real people as Shakespeare is to a cat. The NetImp piece argues that bar codes could be the real-world equivalent of a hyperlink – the break [...]
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