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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 But sometimes [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Mobile Premier Awards – Hope to See You There

The final agenda for Team Rudy’s Mobile Premier Awards has been announced – you can read all about it here.. It’s one of my favourite events of the year and it’ll be the fourth year I’ve been on the jury – I’ve been involved since the beginning – and it gets better and bigger every [...]

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40% off M-Football Tickets

I’m just getting my agenda sorted out for the year and the first event I’m doing is M-Football next week in London, which looks like a great kick off (sorry!) for the World Cup year and one which will be hugely important for mobile too. If you’d like a whopping 40% off and a day [...]

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Just A Few More Days Til Heroes of the Mobile Screen In London!

Just A Few More Days Til Heroes of the Mobile Screen In London!

In a few short days, on Monday, December 7, Heroes of the Mobile Screen is going down in London — and tickets are going fast, so don’t get left out! It promises to be a great day with lots of great speakers and sessions, and of course all the great attendees for networking and conversation. [...]

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Carnival of the Mobilists – The End?

Many of you are readers and/or contributors of the Carnival of the Mobilists, that started here at MobHappy about 4 years ago and has now been published an impressive 196 times. During that time, it’s become something of an institution, with many of the best writers about mobile taking part. [For those that don't know, [...]

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Media Week

Just a little personal update for those who might be interested. I (Russell) have also started blogging over at Media Week at a site I’ve called Mobsessed – a word I made up a few weeks back. You can check out my first few posts here. I’d be especially interested in your opinions on this [...]

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We’re Twitterly Mobsessed

As I’ve said before, a lot of my writing energy is going on Twitter these days, especially interesting links and stuff like that. Yesterday I wrote a brief (obviously) tweet about a report on people who are really into their mobiles, who were dubbed Smartphoniacs. This description didn’t sound quite right to me – a [...]

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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 [...]

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