Continuing Omar’s thoughts on startups and business, today there’s a small section on deals and negotiations. Understand what you really have to lose (which is usually not much) If you are a person with a laptop and an idea, don’t worry about messing up the 100m dollar business you think you will someday be. Russell [...]
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Omar Hamoui on Ideas and Company Launches
As many of you will know, my day job is working for AdMob. I was actually lucky enough to be the first person Omar Hamoui, AdMob’s Founder and CEO, employed 3 years ago and it was mainly through writing this blog that we connected. Over 80 Billion ads and 3 years later, we’ve come along [...]
Twitter Local from the 1930′s
A post over at the excellent Daily Irrelevant reminded me of an old MobHappy post from a few years ago, when Twitter was just starting to scale. Basically, it’s a localised Twitter machine, enabling people to leave personal messages for friends and family. This was a coin operated machine from the 1930’s, where (many years [...]
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Shazam Turns the Corner
I’ve always been a big fan of Shazam – it seemed to epitomise Arthur C Clarke’s “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. I can remember demoing it back in 2001 to a bunch of Coca-Cola people and hearing the collective intake of breath as Shazam correctly identified a random track. However, as I [...]
Tomato Plus Seems to be a Winner
Back in October, I posted about Tomato Plus, which might be described as a sort of Blyk for existing operators. It was launched on the Vip Croatia network in conjunction with the service/platform’s developers OutThere Media. The basic consumer offering is getting 50 free sms and 50 free minutes of calling every month, “in return” [...]
Valencia Festival of Media
I’ve been tweeting a lot from the Valencia Festival of Media, where I have been lucky enough to join a very distinguished line up of judges (and I do mean really distinguished) and speakers. I find that tweeting lends itself very well to live reportage and I’ve pasted below most of my tweets for those [...]
1984 (Updated)
It occurred to me a while back that we were way past the technological scenario that George Orwell was able to envisage in his classic book “1984″, when he wrote it in the 1940s. This is pretty scary on one level as a totalitarian regime that came to power today would easily be able to [...]
BBC Goes Live with Mobile TV
The BBC has gone live with a beta test version of mobile TV, which is available via wifi on selected models of phones. What’s interesting though is that you need to own a TV licence in the UK to watch the BBC – actually it’s wider than this, as you need a TV licence to [...]
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Mark Cuban Agrees
I’ve been writing for a long time now about how the mobile is going to do to the PC, what the PC did to the mainframe. Mainframes certainly aren’t extinct, but they’re a niche market today. The scenario I see is that the mobile will become our primary digital device and that when we need [...]
Gadget Freak’s Delight
If you’re really into mobiles, and the chances are high that you are if you’re here, you’re going to really like this service. Rentobile allows you to spit in the face of long term carrier contracts and commitments and flit like a bee between providers and more importantly, handsets. You can rent a mobile for [...]
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