App stores abound these days: Apple’s well-known effort has been joined by BlackBerry’s App World, and more recently, Nokia’s Ovi Store, while pretty much every operator, handset vendor and used-car dealer has said they’re going to set up their own shop. A lot of this is based on the huge number of downloads by iPhone [...]
Archive | June, 2009
A Future for IVR
When thinking about the new new thing, it’s quite easy to lose sight of opportunities in older technologies, such as Voice. Voice was obviously the first service to emerge in mobile telephony (that was the only thing you could do with the early phones, Best Beloved) and is still easily the highest revenue earner for [...]
Clay Shirky on Mobile and Twitter
I’ve been a long time fan of Clay Shirky. For instance, I loved his seminal “Permanet, Nearlynet, and Wireless Data” essay back in 2003 – still a must-read if you haven’t. He’s always great value as a writer and as a speaker, so if you haven’t seen his TED talk on mobile, twitter and a [...]
Mobile Microfinancing
I’ve written about microfinancing a few times in the past, most recently about Kiva, and now I’m pleased to see that microfinance has met mobile. If microfinance is a new idea to you, it has really exploded in the last few years, ever since the Grameen Bank pioneered the concept in Bangladesh. Read more about [...]
Creativity Comes to Location
In my Predictions for 2009, I suggested: I think that this is the year when creativity comes to Location and some very interesting things happen as a result – albeit in a small way. We’ll start to move away from find-my-nearest and simple buddy trackers and start to see innovation. So, I was interested to [...]
Carnival of the Mobilists #179
This week’s best reflections on things mobile can be found at Geoff Ballinger’s “Reflections on Things Mobile” – coincidence, or what? Some great posts as usual, so head on over there to feast your eyes and delight your mobile soul. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
Calling Startups – Sign Up For The MobileBeat Top Startup Competition
The good folks over at VentureBeat are holding their second MobileBeat event in San Francisco on July 16. I’ve been part of their illustrious board of advisors, so I can say that the speakers and topics they’ve lined up are top-notch, and it should be a great event. As a part of it, they’re hosting [...]
Layar Points the Way
Raimo van der Klein, who among other things is a founder of the excellent MoMoNe (Mobile Monday Nederlands) has just launched Layar, the world’s first mobile augmented reality browser. If your response is WFT? – maybe you shouldn’t be here? As chance would have it, I was writing about the very same idea this morning [...]
Mobile Phones in 10 Year’s Time
I’ve been writing over at Opinions in Mobile for a while now. The idea is that they send out a question very week to a panel of industry thought leaders (and me) and everyone responds with a short and pithy post. There really are some heavyweight thinks from around the world involved – I won’t [...]
Carnival of the Mobilists #176
Carnival of the Mobilists #176 is up at the blogsite of the very fine mobile search specialist, Taptu. Check it out for the very best of the last week’s blog postings from around the world. This week, my post on Humanity 2.0 and The Singularity was selected. If you haven’t read it, it’s worth a [...]
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