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1 Billion Apps
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:
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You’re Probably Going To Laugh, But…
11.11.08 | Permalink | 9 CommentsI 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. [...] -
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More On The Services Strategy: Replacing One Walled Garden With Another
11.11.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsHow 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.
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Mippin Gets Social
11.04.08 | Permalink | Comments OffOne 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 [...]
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Intel Marketing + WiMAX = ???
This Intel ad — pumping up the launch of Sprint’s WiMAX network, called Xohm — was on the front of Monday’s Wall Street Journal. What I’m most interested to see from the Xohm launch is how hard Intel will pump WiMAX and Xohm up, and how much marketing spend it will put into its [...]
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Radar, Back on my Radar
I had the chance recently to catch up with John Poisson, the head of Tiny Pictures, the company behind the Radar mobile service. I first met John a couple of years ago, and I came away from that meeting impressed both with him and Radar. John really gets mobile, and gets how people use it [...]
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Mobile Society
A Few Things I’ve Seen…
I’ve snapped pics of a couple of things recently I thought I’d share.
First up, I was checking out grills at my local Lowe’s, and saw this ad for an audio tour about the product. You just call in to the 800 number, and you get walked through the grill’s features while you’re standing there [...]
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Text Games, On Paper
08.14.08 | Permalink | 6 CommentsApparently, back in the day, people used to fill in these things called “Crossword Puzzles” that were printed in these other things called “newspapers”, instead of playing solitare or Snake or Tetris on their mobile phone. USA Today, one of these “newspapers”, and a quite large one at that, appears to be attempting to drag [...]
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Mobile Society
Consumer Information via SMS
07.28.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsBBC NEWS | Business | Italians dial up best food price:
However, if Italians feel that their local food retailer is charging unreasonable prices, they can now call on a new service to help them haggle or walk away. Thanks to a short message service (SMS) text system set up jointly by the [...] -
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When Will The Mobile Web Be Mass Market?
07.25.08 | Permalink | 4 CommentsMy good friend Tarek Abu-Esber wondered earlier this week when the mobile web will hit mass adoption, and more specifically, what would define that:
While I might not go as far as using the term “critical-mass” I definitely agree with the overall idea of their report. The traditional barriers to the Mobile Web are all [...]
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