I don’t really like to blog about copyright and whatnot much as I think it gets pretty tedious. That said, this stuff the Associated Press is trying to pull is a bit much. Last week it got pissed off that a site called the Drudge Retort was posting links to AP stories with a cut-and-pasted [...]
I’ve been searching around for quite some time for a Wordpress client for S60 that would let me write and edit blog posts from my mobile. I’m not the only one — Ewan over at SMS Text News even went so far as to engage a developer through Rent-A-Coder or something to try and get [...]
At MobHappy, we teamed with with the the guys behind Free News a while back to offer a mobile phone RSS reader. This allows you to follow our favourite blogs from your mobile.
So we thought we’d extend this popular service to include all our Mobilist friends too and offer a Mobilist Mobile RSS reader, consisting [...]
There’s been a few mentions around some telecom blogs about the onslaught of PR spam that’s been unleashed on people registered as press for the upcoming VON trade show, which is largely concerned with VoIP. One person’s privately commented to me that their email has been rendered largely useless thanks to all the PR pitches, [...]
Back in January, I wrote about the controversial company, BzzAgent and how they’d managed to raise $13.75 million in VC funding.
One of my points that was that while word of mouth marketing was undoubtedly very, very powerful, paying people to spread the word defeated the whole point and undermined the credibility of the people passing [...]
Aloha. Just letting all my fellow mobilists know that I will be attending the Venture Wire Network Ventures this Thursday February 9th in San Jose, California at the Fairmont Hotel. I strongly recommend that you take a look at the website and if there’s something in particular that anyone would like to see [...]
Britain’s National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has issued a Code of Conduct for Citizen Journalists (or what they call Witness Contributors), following an actually quite sensible sounding discussion at The Guardian.
The Code reeks of fear and attempted protectionist practices and you can read more about it on Neil McIntosh’s blog, Complete Tosh here. Neil is [...]
Back before I joined Mobhappy, Andy Abramson of Comunicano was kind enough to ask me to join the Blogger Outreach Program that was
his conception and supported by Nokia. For those of you that haven’t heard about this, what they’ve done (besides make a number of bloggers very happy) is provide top end Nokia phones (right [...]
Paul over at MyPhoneRocks has a new feature on his site that sounds pretty cool. He works at Nokia, and has been trying to figure out how best to take advantage of that for his blog and its readers:
I haven’t been looking for a competitive edge so much as
something that compliments others in a way [...]
Congrats to Rafat Ali for the scoop that Weblogs Inc are selling to the venerable (and vulnerable) AOL for $25 million.
Assuming it’s true, it’s certainly a very fast turnaround from startup to sale - about two years - and Jason Calacanis and team are to be congratulated if they’ve pulled this off. Mark Cuban also [...]