Proving that mobile payments is a hot topic, Business Week (no less) has followed my lead and written an article on the topic (thanks Irakli for sending it over). The article comes to pretty much the same conclusion as me – namely, that the usability of the service will be key. Or as a spokesman [...]
Archive | June, 2005
Last Night’s Munich BlogFest
Thanks to everyone who came to Munich’s first (world’s first?) BlogFest last night. There was a nice mix of bloggers and would-be bloggers who turned up. And thanks for being prepared to speak in English, for my benefit! It was really interesting to meet the local talent, exchange ideas and just hang out in the [...]
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KDDI Sells 10 Million Downloads
KDDI says on June 15th, it sold the 10 millionth download from its Chaku Uta Full service. The service launched in November 2004, boasts a catalog of 30,000 songs, and it now selling 2 million tracks per month and growing. It passed the 5 million mark just in April, after taking two months after launch [...]
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The Mobile Technology Weblog Goes Mobile
I’m looking at a few options currently to launch a stripped down version of this site, optimised for mobile browsing. After all, it is about mobile Do you think this is a good idea? Would you use it? It’s a little more work for me, which I’m happy to do, if there’s a demand. Leave [...]
BT Launch Mobile Radio
James at Moco News writes that BT is launching a new radio service for mobiles today. For non-Brits, BT is the old government monopoly, privatised in the 80′s and being mainly a landline player, when they floated off the mobile operator, O2. LiveTime will pilot with Virgin Mobile (a MVNO) and have 50 radio stations [...]
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YubNub – Brings out the Geek in You
OK, this has not a lot to do with mobile and everything to do with tech. It proves to me that beneath my sophisticated marketing exterior, I am, at heart deeply geeky. YubNub is both a website and a plug in for Firefox. It’s then simply, and rather brilliantly, a command line for the web. [...]
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Munich BlogFest
If you’re a blogger and plan to be in Munich this Monday (20th) come along to our BlogFest! It’s a very informal affair, involving no agenda, some beer and meeting other bloggers. The venue is SAX, Hans-Sachs-Str. 5 and we’re meeting at 7.30 ish. The table is booked in the name of “BlogFest” – and [...]
A Manifesto for Taking Wikipedia into the Physical World
One of the huge successes in the last few years on the net, has been the blossoming of Wikipedia. I regularly consult it nowadays for information and with increasing frequency. If you don’t know about Wikipedia, here’s a very brief catch up. It’s a multi-authored, free, multi-lingual knowledge repository. Anyone can update or correct it [...]
Simon Waldman of The Guardian on New Directions in Media
Net Imperative report on a speech by Simon Waldman, head of Guardian Unlimited. [For non-Brits, The Guardian, is a left-leaning, intelligent broadsheet newspaper. See below for Yes, Minster's famous amusing analysis of the Brit newspaper scene. The Guardian is also on a par with the BBC (a high compliment, indeed) for "getting" digital trends.] Simon [...]
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Community Power
CNN reports that eBay bowed to the pressure of the community yesterday and withdrew all sales of Live 8 tickets. Tickets were awarded on the basis of an sms lottery and started appearing in hours on eBay for 100′s of dollars. But good old Sir Bob, branded eBay as an electronic pimp and condemned the [...]
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