MobHappy

mTLD, the company set up by Nokia, 3, Google, Ericsson, Vodafone, Samsung, T-Mobile and other industry bigwigs to run the .mobi top-level domain is being purchased by another registrar responsible for such hits as the .info TLD. I was pretty skeptical of .mobi from the outset, and saw it as little more than a moneygrab, [...]

I just spent some time watching Liverpool lose to Arsenal in an English Premier League football match. As Liverpool fan, the game itself wasn’t particularly rewarding, but I had a great time playing along with it with Football3s. It’s a sort of in-running fantasy game: you play 10-minute games against other users by picking a [...]

I wrote about mGive’s mobile charity donation platform in December, and it’s back in the news today. Already, Americans have donated more than $1.2 million to the Red Cross’ Haiti relief efforts using mGive on their mobile phones. The devastation in Haiti is immense and heartbreaking, but I’m glad to see that mobile is making [...]

I’ve been listening to British radio station Xfm online quite a bit lately. In addition to some great music, they feature some of the most bizarre ads I’ve ever heard, pitching dating sites for people in uniform (or people who like people in uniform) and PSAs telling you to defrost your freezer (which kick off [...]

In January 2008, ESPN said that its NFL web content got more hits from mobile than from PCs during one 24-hour period. An exec surmised that it was NFL fans checking other scores and stats while they watched other games on TV, or what I called “co-browsing” — using a mobile to surf the web [...]

I’d been wondering a bit about mobile barcodes lately after I set one up as a shortcut for a blog. There’s no doubt that they’re useful as a means of navigating to a site on a mobile device, and have lots of other potential uses as well. But after being talked about as the next [...]

Keep that in mind the next time somebody tells you people don’t like to download apps on their phone.
And remember Buckley’s Law #31:
Citizens will download applications, providing it’s very clear what the application does and what the benefits of using it are.
As well as its corollary, Longino Revised Statute 31.31/b:
Citizens will download applications, provided it’s [...]

I think this is a great idea — a picture frame with a GSM radio so it can receive MMS.
Nokia announced the SU-7 Image Frame a few years ago, but the price of the frame was pretty steep and finding a reasonably priced way to keep the SIM in the frame alive wasn’t very easy. [...]

How To Doom The Services Strategy To Failure:
By enabling better experiences with the services your customers already use, you’ll create a much more favorable impression of your brand than if you try and force them into closed and substandard services of your own.
I wrote that a couple of months ago in a post about [...]

One of my favorite mobile content sites, Mippin, announced a cool new social feature last week. You’re probably already familiar with how easy Mippin makes it to find and consume mobile content; its new social feature lets you discover new items through other users, and it even uses a nice “similarity meter” to display how [...]