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Accept Connection From “More Bluespamming Debate”?
by Carlo Longino on 30. Jan, 2007 in Marketing
Some interesting discussion has sprouted around my post on Bluespamming from Friday: Ewan Macleod: It’s an ugly, ugly message that most consumers don’t care for. It’s then a hugely underwhelming experience — to be sent a 100×100 shite image. Or some blocky video. You have to pair with the sodding device. It’s just……… it’s a [...]
AdMob Hits One Billion
by Russell Buckley on 29. Jan, 2007 in Analysis
If you’re not from around these parts, you might not know that my day job is working for AdMob, where I’m MD of Europe. I try to keep that from impinging on what I write on MobHappy, but sometimes I think there’s some stuff that you’ll find interesting and today is one such instance. AdMob¬†served [...]
More on Bluespamming
by Carlo Longino on 26. Jan, 2007 in Marketing
Bluespamming continues to live on: using Bluetooth to distribute marketing content, but doing it responsibly, makes it ridiculously obtuse for interested users. So what’s a company to do? Ignore best practices and just bluespam, or ping every visible Bluetooth connection within site. Mobile Marketing Magazine says that a company was running a Bluespamming… er, Bluecasting [...]
How Mobile Operators Could Beat YouTube
by Carlo Longino on 25. Jan, 2007 in Advice to Operators
Vodafone apparently plans to launch a user-generated video service at CeBIT in March, which will let users upload their own videos from their handsets, then pay them every time somebody else watches it. That sounds like a great idea… though 3 UK beat them to the punch more than a year ago with its quite [...]
More from DLD – How Green is My Company?
by Russell Buckley on 24. Jan, 2007 in Analysis
This isn’t specifically about mobile, but it does affect mobile businesses, as well as every other business - as well as every person on the planet, so please excuse the slight digression.   I wrote earlier in the week about attending the DLD conference in Munich, which is probably one of the leading new and old [...]
Lazyweb Requests
by Carlo Longino on 24. Jan, 2007 in Personal
Two questions for all our lovely, intelligent readers: Can anybody recommend a decent blogging client, either for S60 3rd edition, or a Java app? Web-based service might possibly be okay, too. Second, what (if anything) are you all using for mobile VoIP these days? Just curious to get a feel for this and potentially check [...]
2007 Predictions – The Final One
by Russell Buckley on 23. Jan, 2007 in Predictions
Well, I couldn’t resist it and my final prediction is going to be about the iPhone – though it would be kinda cheating to just say that it’s just going to be launched. I’ve been thinking about it a lot over the last few weeks and quite honestly, I don’t think this is going to [...]
Bits and Pieces
by Carlo Longino on 22. Jan, 2007 in Announcements
Carnival of the Mobilists 59 is up at Xellular Identity, so go check it out. Rudy de Waele has launched a wiki to track Mobile 2.0 companies at http://www.mobile2companies.com. I’ve helped him get started with some of the intro text, so be sure to head over there, have a look around and perhaps make some [...]
Blogging from DLD – Part 1
by Russell Buckley on 21. Jan, 2007 in Analysis
This afternoon saw the start of the DLD conference in ole Munich town, which I posted about a couple of weeks ago. It’s probably one of the biggest and most prestigious¬†media/technology events in Europe, all the more remarkable as it only has 450 invitation-only delegates. This makes it surprisingly intimate and you really can be [...]

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