Mass Distraction is an art project covered by SmartMobs. [Before outlining their social etiquette conversation-starter, I have a blogging etiquette issue. Smart Mobs credit the source of the article as Cool Hunting. Fair 'nuff. But the image they've posted (above right) is linked to Textually. Textually also quote Cool Hunting as the source. So it [...]
Archive | June, 2004
Picture Postcards
Textually covers a story about a new launch of US-based DialaCard. The idea is that you take a pic on your camera phone, add text and send it to them. They’ll then print a post card and send it out for you. So let’s get this right. You take a picture, then invest some time [...]
Footie
England lost in the quarter final of the European Championship tonight. Ho hum. What’s new? Well, technology is what’s new. If the men in the grey (albeit Armani) suits who control Football allowed technology into the game, England’s winning goal would have been allowed and the story would be different. It’s not fair on the [...]
Walkies
YAFRO (Yet Another Friendster Rip Off) but of a different kind. According to the Social Software blog Dogster allows you Based on Friendster, it allows you to post pictures of your pooch and meet up with new Pup Pals. There are over 26,000 dogs online to search through, each with a profile that includes information [...]
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SMS Domain Checker
160 Characters announces Cardiff based company, W2Wave has built an SMS domain checker A simple text message request will check to see if an internet domain name is available or not. By sending DOMAIN NAME followed by DOMAINNAME to 81551 a response is sent with whether or not the name has been registered. The service [...]
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Text Bullying
Text bullying is big problem in some schools – in other words, sending an SMS of a threatening or nasty nature to someone in your peer group. In fact, a recent UK survey says that 1 in 4 kids had been subjected to bullying either via text or email and that many of them never [...]
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Wave Messaging Update
When Nokia launched their new wave messaging idea we commented that it would be great for gigs (well, and heckling actually). Well, it seems it’s already happening. Michael “Mr Cool” Tchong’s Trendsetters email newletter (sign up here) comments: At a May 29 Toronto concert, Blink 182 asked attendees to pull out their lighters. When few [...]
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We’re MobHappy!
The BBC Reports on a survey conducted by Teleconomy – Me, My Mobile and I. As a reader of this blog, I’m sure none of the findings will be especially surprising but it’s well worth a read. The main findings are: 26% say they couldn’t live without mobile For children, phones are not so much [...]
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Think of a big figure and double it!
The Yankee Group have announced with absolute certainty that mobile data revenues will double to $50 billion over next five years Phew! That’s a relief then. With voice calls in decline (a fact, not a guess) it would be jolly worrying for the telcom industry if something wasn’t going to come along and replace this [...]
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Mobile Social Networking
SmartMobs blogged a new Mobile Social Networking service – WhoAt a social networking and dating site designed for mobile phones. You tell it where you are and it tells you where your friends and nearby potential friends are. It works via mobile phone browsers (WAP/WML and XHTML-MP), SMS, and standard web browsers. New York and [...]
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