Michael Mace has done an excellent job of hosting the 37th installment of the Carnival of the Mobilists at his Mobile Opportunity blog. Be sure to check it out to see this week’s best writing about mobile from around the Web. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
Archive | July, 2006
Is This The Dawn Of DRM-Free Music From Major Labels?
Yahoo’s been getting a lot of attention this week because they’re selling a Jessica Simpson single for download. It’s not just any single, though, there’s hundreds of customized versions of the track, and users can download the one that’s got their name in it. But that’s not what’s generating all the interest — the big [...]
Guzzler
Nothing whatsoever to do with mobile, but an amusing and pointed Greenpeace film to have a look at. Gas Guzzler —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
SMS and Interactive Advertising
One of the features that ought to be a no-brainer for advertisers is to include an sms short code on all their advertisements. This means that people can see the ad and instantly fire off an sms with their ever-present mobile and get a response just as instantly. Examples might be to claim a coupon, [...]
MMS Usage Up 40% In The US
Messaging company Mobile365 says the number of mobile-originated MMS messages it processed in the US increased 40% from the first to the second quarter, a pretty significant jump. The raw numbers are higher than I’d expected as well, up to 52 million and change in the second quarter. Keep in mind this is just what [...]
Rejection Without Confrontation
I don’t think anyone could have predicted the massive scale of the ringtone business, even though it seems stalled now, but here’s another completely unlikely success story. The Rejection Hotline is a service for people being pestered for their phone numbers on the dating scene. You simply give out the hotline number and when they [...]
Porting Java Applications
A few months ago I wrote a piece about The Frustrations of Java, which you left a lot of comments about. My post was a rant about what a bitch Java Platform, Micro Edition (or J2ME as it used to be called) is to develop for, with a huge amount of work going into porting the application, [...]
User Generated Content
I was invited to join the panel to discuss the role of Mobile Advertising at the User Generated Content conference here in Munich last night and very interesting it was too. Thanks to Daniel Melter of M-Squad for the last minute invitation. I can’t say the idea of having a very poor German speaker on [...]
Here, We’ll Make This Mobile Thing Easy For You
In the current social-networking boom, one glaring oversight has been the dearth of mobile integration — a few things notwithstanding, like Helio’s MySpace arrangement, or mobile-specific services like Rabble. There are some mobile services here and there, and some blogging sites offer users the ability to moblog, but for the most part, outside more specialist [...]
Carnival of the Mobilists 36 at Mobile Jones
Check out Mobile Jones for this week’s collection of best writing about mobile from around the web. In case you missed it, the Carnival now has its own website and it’s sponsored by our friends at Khosla Ventures. This means you can win cash prizes for entering and hosting the Carnival every month. —–>Follow us [...]
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