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See You There?

It’s been a while since I last posted, for a variety of reasons really.
There’s been the move to Google, which has taken my eye off the ball. Google are (as you might expect) enlightened about employees blogging, providing that they make it clear that it’s their opinion, not Google’s – please note [...]

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MMS Officially Huge

If you haven’t read our friend, Tomi Ahonen’s post “Everything you ever wanted to know about mobile, but were afraid to ask” over at Communities Dominate Brands, you really should. It’s a little long (no surprises there from our Tomi!) but is worth every minute you invest reading it. This applies if you’re a died-in-the-wool [...]

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London’s Calling

Man alive! As the cool kids are starting to say again. It’s been a while since I posted here – Twitter is a cruel and selfish mistress.
Just wanted to write that I’m in London next week for 3 interesting speaking events – all different, but all very interesting.
Monday sees me chairing a very distinguished panel [...]

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Carnival of the Mobilists #217

The mighty Carnival of the Mobilists has rolled into town again, this week at Martin Wilson’s Indigo102. Check it out for the very best of this week’s blogging about mobile.
If you’re a blogger, you should volunteer to host a Carnival in the next month or two. It’s interesting to do, but it also boosts your [...]

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Unintended Consequences and the Success of Blackberry in the Middle East

I’m attending ArabNet currently, which is a large web conference taking place in Beirut. I’m speaking tomorrow, so if you’re here too let me know if there’s anything you’d like me to cover – and come and say hello.
One of the interesting aspects of the region is the huge success of Blackberry over and above [...]

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Offensive Advertising

French Connection, (aka FCUK) no stranger to courting controversy, announced today a joint promotion with Chatroulette. If you’ve been on digital hunger-strike recently, Chatroullette is a service which allows you to video conference with a series of random sad blokes and their penises. Rumours of girls using the service are yet to be confirmed by [...]

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Carnival of the Mobilists #212

This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is out at Terence Eden Has a Blog.
If you’re a stranger around these parts, the Carnival features the best writing about mobile from the past week and is considered a “must read” among all true Mobilists.
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Mob4Hire Taking Off

One of the finalists of last year’s Mobile Peer Awards in Barcelona was Mob4Hire, which showed an awful lot of potential. I caught up with them this year again at MWC and was really pleased to see that they were fulfilling their early promise and adding new services to their core offering.
Mob4Hire is the inspiration [...]

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Digital Trash II

About a month ago, I wrote a post exploring the potential downsides of the new hot topic of Augmented Reality. As a reminder, while I’m a huge fan of AR and have been for years, but that doesn’t mean that I’m blind to future problems, unlike many pundits who are busy hyping it up.
One of [...]

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Tomi Ahonen’s Almanac

It’s that time of the year again. Our pal, Tomi Ahonen (consultant, speaker, blogger, Tweeter, raconteur and all-round good Mobilist) has just launched his Almanac for the year – a steal at €9.99. For our US readers, we don’t use dollars here, but it’s about $13.57 in your language.
Tomi’s Almanac is one of the most [...]

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