I’ve been a T-Mobile subscriber for a long time. Can’t remember how long, but long enough that every time I call in their great customer service people, they give me the usual “thanks for being a T-Mobile customer since…” business and are surprised at the duration. I’ve remained loyal because of their generally great service, [...]
Archive | April, 2008
Clay Shirky, Gin, TV and Social Surplus
Clay Shirky teaches at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and recent wrote of Here Comes Everybody. He gave one of the most thought provoking speeches at last week’s Web 2.0 Expo – and the competition was tough.
The basic idea is that at times of great change, the human mind seeks escape. In the industrial revolution, it [...]
MMS Coming of Age….Finally
After the huge hopes for MMS around its launch back in 2001, interest quietly waned as the market failed to deliver. This is pretty much what often happens with a new technology and it’s well described by the Gartner Hype Cycle. Essentially, this says that when a new technology is introduced it gets overhyped by [...]
Web 2.0, UI and Twitter
This week saw me in San Francisco for the mega Web 2.0 event – I’m actually on my way back now.
It’s a huge event, with thousands of people in the cavernous Moscone Center (sic) in San Francisco. I’ll be posting again when I’ve been through notes and caught up with jet lag, but just wanted [...]
Blyk Hits 100k Member Mark Ahead of Schedule
I’ve been skeptical of Blyk, the youth-focused, free, ad-supported mobile service, in the past; I’ve also been impressed by the response rates they’re seeing from the ads they send out to their members. In any case, some congrats to the Blyk team are in order as they’ve grabbed 100,000 members some five months ahead of [...]
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Another Set of UIQ Fast Track Developer Events In The US
Last May, I went to the UIQ Fast Track event in San Francisco and had a pretty great time. If you’re looking to get into mobile development, whether on UIQ or another platform, you should be there. If you’re already developing, you’ll get a lot out of it as well. As last year, everybody attending [...]
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Vodafone, China Mobile, Softbank: Leave The Innovation Up To Us, Thanks Very Much
Vodafone Sets Up “innovation Lab” with China Mobile & Softbank:
China Mobile, Japan’s Softbank and Vodafone have agreed to establish a Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) to promote the development of new mobile technologies, applications and services. The three companies expect the initiative will help to accelerate the commercial deployment of mobile internet services.
The JIL will launch [...]
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Luca Takes No Prisoners
Luca Passani is a mobile tech guru and the guy behind WURFL – if you don’t know, WURFL is an open source project that allows mobile developers to identify which mobile phone a mobile web page is being viewed on. In layman’s terms (the only way I understand it), this allows developers to optimise the [...]
MMF Final Thoughts
I’ve written a few posts about the Mobile Marketing Forum, but I just wanted to close with a few thoughts and quotes from presentations that didn’t really justify a complete post devoted to them.
I thought that the best answer to a (fairly aggressive, if very fair) question came from Scott Seaborn, whose company I have [...]
Have You Checked Out Mippin Lately?
The team over at Mippin (check out my old post for background) are bouncing from strength to strength lately. They’ve launched Mippin Maker for publishers, which lets them easily create Mippsites for their publications; they’ve launched free ad-supported mobile games; they’ve enhanced the Mippin Today feature so users can get it via email and easily [...]
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