I’ve had a number of people ask me my thoughts about the mess Twitter created for itself when it announced yesterday that it was suspending SMS services in countries other than the US, Canada and India. Alfie Dennen told me he expected to see an “Eat That, Twitter!” on the end of the title of [...]
Archive | August, 2008
Text Games, On Paper
Apparently, back in the day, people used to fill in these things called “Crossword Puzzles” that were printed in these other things called “newspapers”, instead of playing solitare or Snake or Tetris on their mobile phone. USA Today, one of these “newspapers”, and a quite large one at that, appears to be attempting to drag [...]
SMS More Popular Than the Internet*
Text Messaging Usage Grows 32 Percent In UK; Uptake Of Mobile Broadband Dongles Surges | mocoNews.net: Text messaging remains the most widely used data application in the UK, with 2007 revenues nearly three times the figures for data revenue. Regulator Ofcom revealed in its hefty annual survey of the communications market published today that SMS [...]
Mobilympics
In case you hadn’t noticed, we’re in the midst of the Olympics. Have you seen any good Olympic mobile content? Mippin’s launched a great catch-all Olympic category at mippin.com/olympics, where they’ve got content from nearly 100 sources being sucked in to their platform, all for easy reading on your mobile. I’ve also played with US [...]
Back In The Saddle
Just wanted to say thanks for all the well-wishes and gifts from our wonderful readers over the last couple weeks. I’m now fully married and enjoying all that it entails, and I appreciate all the support from the MobHappy community! More changes are on the horizon as I start classes for my MBA at the [...]
Mobile Video or Audio? Place Your bets.
One of my theories, going back some time now, is that audio and mobile would make much more natural partners than the rather contrived experience of mobile and video. Here’s something I wrote back in 2004 about it and I think it’s stood the test of time very well. Not only did I point out [...]
MMA’s New Guidelines – Please Comment
I wear so many hats these days that I sometimes even confuse myself. Anyway, with my Global Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association hat on, we’ve just made the new mobile advertising guidelines available for public comment. So if you’re in this space, head on over there and have your say, even if it’s just [...]
Announcing… Mobile Web Megatrends Conference
Our pal, Ajit Jaokar, is organising the first Mobile Web Megatrends conference in The Valley on September 8th 2008 at the Pacific Film Archive Theatre at the University of California Berkeley. Tickets cost a very reasonable $195, but if you’d like to get in free, the first to leave a comment below gets a ticket [...]
Intel Back from the Dead
Back in 2006, I wrote a post called “The Death of Intel” as the chip maker announced the sell-off of its Marvell Technology Group (which made chips for mobiles) in order to focus on ‚Äúchips for personal computers and servers amid stiffer competition‚Äù. The reason for my dramatic headline was that if mobile is the [...]
Beijing’s Taxis are Bugged and Tracked
Beijing’s 70,000 taxis have had equipment installed in the run up to the Olympics, that enable the authorities to bug them, track them via GPS and disable them remotely. Apparently this is all in the name of driver safety, but then, that is the official line. This kind of technology is often compared to Orwell’s [...]
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