“If the mobile internet turns into the general internet, then shame on us” — says Motricity’s chief strategy and marketing officer, Jim Ryan, in an interview with MocoNews’ Tricia Duryee. Yeah, I mean, shame on us if the mobile internet actually became something useful, enriching, ubiquitous and valuable, supporting a plethora of business models on [...]
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Congrats Russell and the rest of the AdMob team!
You might have heard that Google’s buying AdMob. My co-blogger Russell was, of course, AdMob’s first employee, and he’s far too modest to bring up the deal here — so I’m going to do it for him! Congrats to Russell and the rest of the AdMob team, especially its founder, Omar. It’s been exciting watching [...]
N-Gage: A Eulogy
Pause for a moment and shed a tear for the Nokia N-Gage. This monumental device, which brought sidetalking to the world, as well as a portrait-oriented screen for gaming, evolved into the N-Gage platform (no, we didn’t quite get that, either) — and now it’s being taken behind the shed and put out of its [...]
Awesome Upcoming Event: Heroes of the Mobile Screen
I was honored to be asked by MH pal Helen Keegan to give some input to an event she and her team are organizing in London on December 7, called Heroes of the Mobile Screen. We’re working on putting together a fantastic list of speakers and sessions and we’ve got a great venue — now [...]
ESPN Sets Up A Co-Browsing Destination for College Football Fans
In January 2008, ESPN said that its NFL web content got more hits from mobile than from PCs during one 24-hour period. An exec surmised that it was NFL fans checking other scores and stats while they watched other games on TV, or what I called “co-browsing” — using a mobile to surf the web [...]
Location on Mobile: Still Wandering Around A Little Aimlessly
I’ve been thinking about location and mobile a lot lately, mostly trying to wrap my head around this nebulous (at least to me) “social location” trend. It seems to me that so many “location-based services” — I just shudder uopn reading that term — of today are rehashes of many of the same ideas from [...]
Mobile Barcodes: Dead or Alive?
I’d been wondering a bit about mobile barcodes lately after I set one up as a shortcut for a blog. There’s no doubt that they’re useful as a means of navigating to a site on a mobile device, and have lots of other potential uses as well. But after being talked about as the next [...]
More Good App News: The Symbian Meta-Publisher
Symbian has announced its Horizon program, which will get developers’ apps into multiple stores with a single submission. Symbian already has a deal in place with stores from Nokia, Samsung and AT&T, and it’s in talks with several more. Basically, instead of submitting their app to each one separately, developers can submit it to Symbian [...]
PR Gets Into Apps, Too
I pointed out a couple of weeks back that simply getting your app in an app store isn’t a marketing strategy. Apparently the team at VSC Consulting were thinking the same thing, as they’ve now launched AppLaunchPR, a division of their PR firm dedicated to building awareness and driving downloads of mobile apps. Interesting stuff, [...]
Japan’s Porn-Obsessed Highlight The Need For New Content Delivery Models
You’ve probably already seen the story about how Japan’s mobile networks are creaking under the strain of mobile porn. While Japanese operators say they can’t look at exactly what their users are downloading, the booming business of porn providers, plus a nightly spike in data traffic around midnight, gives them a pretty solid idea. Certainly [...]
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