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Repeat After Me…
09.27.07 | Permalink | 6 Comments… successful content providers don’t equal successful mobile operators.
Think Disney understands this yet? Or is it going to take yet another MVNO failure for them to get it? -
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Hooray For Pop-Up Ads On Your Mobile!
08.08.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsMobile advertising is a fairly common subject here on MobHappy, thanks largely to my esteemed colleague Russell’s role at AdMob and his interest in the industry. The ad mechanism that it and many other players in the space, like Third Screen and Google, use is a familiar one: a mobile equivalent of a text link [...]
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Mobile Content
MyStrands Grabs $25M In Funding
MyStrands, the music recommendation and personalization company I’ve covered before, has just announced that it’s raised a $25 million investment round — a pretty hefty sum, and one that should help it continue to build and grow. I find MyStrands to be one of the more interesting companies in the growing recommendation space because mobile [...]
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Mobile Content
Are Mobile Apps Barking Up the Wrong Tree?
06.08.07 | Permalink | 13 CommentsOne of the pieces of wisdom currently flowing around the industry is that it’s incredibly hard to get users to download mobile applications.
It’s a refrain I hear from everyone from seasoned investors to rueful executives of companies who have staked their all on a compelling mobile app - after all while most users don’t download apps, it’s going [...] -
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Google Checkout Now Supports WAP
05.31.07 | Permalink | 5 CommentsMore than a year ago, PayPal Mobile launched to great fanfare. As I noted at the time, it seemed a bit odd that they’d focus on person-to-person and physical goods payments and ignore mobile content completely. Now, some 15 months later, PayPal Mobile remains pretty invisible — as does any PayPal offering geared towards mobile [...]
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Mobile Content
10 Rules for Mobile Website Creation
04.12.07 | Permalink | 5 CommentsBack in 1995/6, loads of brand managers suddenly realised that they needed to commission one of those web things. And many paid through the nose for the privilege, as the “right” price wasn’t really known.
Fast forward 10 years and many brand managers are equally suddenly realising that they need one of those mobile web things [...] -
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Didn’t See This Coming: User-Generated Mobile Porn, With Revenue Sharing
04.04.07 | Permalink | 4 CommentsThis was pretty inevitable, wasn’t it?
MocoNews: User-Generated Meets Mobile Porn, Watch For “Citizen Pornography”:
If you’ve got it, flaunt it, so they say. And now PixMeTV gives users a way to earn money for showing it all using their mobiles. The company has launched what it calls a “citizen pornography mobile phone movie platform,” effectively [...] -
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Off-Portal - There Be Dragons
04.03.07 | Permalink | 3 CommentsmBlox, the world’s largest mobile transaction business, have just published some interesting research (registration required) about the world of off-portal, based on questioning 340 mobile users in the UK, France and Germany. An incredible 72% of people, who had previously purchased mobile content, didn’t know they could purchase it anywhere but from their operator. In other words, [...]
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Pocket Portal Review
08.25.06 | Permalink | 4 CommentsIf you’re not from around these parts, you’ll have missed that the mobile web is beginning to hit its stride and blossom into a really useful tool and one that’s now widely used by a significant proportion of the population. In fact, in certain markets, the mobile web is very big indeed already (India and [...]
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Mobile Content
What’s .mobi Playing At Now?
08.24.06 | Permalink | 10 CommentsIt’s no secret that I’m not a fan of .mobi. I haven’t had much to add since I posted on it back in May, so I’ve avoided writing about it here. But the mobile-specific domain’s administrators have done a couple things recently I want to draw attention to.
Last week, over at Techdirt, I posted on [...]
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