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About That Twitter Thing
08.15.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsI’ve had a number of people ask me my thoughts about the mess Twitter created for itself when it announced yesterday that it was suspending SMS services in countries other than the US, Canada and India. Alfie Dennen told me he expected to see an “Eat That, Twitter!” on the end of the title of [...]
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Services
Nice One, ShoZu: $12m Third Funding Round
01.29.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsShoZu is one of my favorite mobile apps of all time, and probably the one I use the most often, as it makes uploading photos from my mobile to my Flickr stream so simple. It’s been great from the get go, but the excellent team over there keeps on making it better and better — [...]
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Services
Nokia Buys Media-Sharing Site Twango
07.24.07 | Permalink | Comments OffThe WSJ is reporting that Nokia will announce on Tuesday that it’s bought a media-sharing site called Twango. I’ve not heard of it before, and when I tried to visit the site I was greeted with a message saying it was down for maintenance (or perhaps a Nokia rebranding), though the Journal says it’s [...]
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Services
10 Ways to Create Buzz in Mobile Content
01.08.07 | Permalink | 3 CommentsOne of the best ways to get noticed, especially without mega-marketing budgets, is great PR. However, it’s often seen as a bit of a “dark art” and consistently baffles even the most experienced of us.
I’ve been impressed over the years by Vijay Chattha, Founder and Chief Talker of VSC Public Relations. Firstly, I’ve been impressed with [...] -
Marketing, P2P, Services
User Generated Short Codes
08.23.06 | Permalink | 18 CommentsWhen I was in The Valley last week, I met the charming veteran entrepreneur and angel investor, Ariel Poler, who gave me a demo of his new venture, TextMarks. He asked me to keep schtum for the time being, but he’s just dropped me an email giving me the OK, so here’s my thoughts.
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Marketing, Services
User Generated Content
07.18.06 | Permalink | 4 CommentsI was invited to join the panel to discuss the role of Mobile Advertising at the User Generated Content conference here in Munich last night and very interesting it was too. Thanks to Daniel Melter of M-Squad for the last minute invitation. I can’t say the idea of having a very poor German speaker on [...]
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Analysis, Announcements, Services
Battle Lines Drawn Up for Mobile Search
06.06.06 | Permalink | 2 CommentsNokia announced their foray into mobile search late last week, with a pretty low key press release, for what is a strategically important initiative.
Nokia’s offering is available in 5 European markets - Denmark, France, Italy, Norway and Spain - and is a free application for N series and S60 handsets. They offer local search [...] -
Analysis, Announcements, Services
Adding Value to MMS
05.11.06 | Permalink | 3 CommentsI’ve long argued that one of the reasons MMS is slow to take off is that it’s hard to compose a meaningful message. This is obviously on top of the high cost of sending, the operators’ connectivity issues and simple usability.
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Analysis, New launches, Services
Juvino Targets Operator Gouging
05.08.06 | Permalink | 4 CommentsWe don’t go in for gratuitous operator bashing here at MobHappy and I’m very pleased to say that we have many readers who work for operators around the world. However, we also call a spade a spade when we need to and one area where operators need to be taken to task is on International [...]
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Analysis, New launches, Services
You Make the Call: Great Mobile TV or Great Geek Gadget?
03.23.06 | Permalink | 2 CommentsContinuing Carlo’s “You Make the Call” theme, I thought I’d ask you what you think of this one.
ROK Entertainment have just launched a box named BLCX that will beam TV to your mobile. If you’ve got a wireless network or are within 10 meters of a broadband connection, your TV gets streamed to your mobile. [...]
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