Spotted on Red Ferret (via Textually) this is a brilliant video if you have a moment. While it takes using Instant Messaging (and mobiles) to extreme lengths, like all great parody, there’s a hell of a lot of truth in it! Remember my close call concept? —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
Archive | October, 2004
TV –>> Mobile
There’s been an increasing amount of debate in the Blogosphere about TV on mobiles and what’s actually going to happen now it’s available (albeit at early stage and limited availability). There’s certainly seems to be a consensus among pundits I rate that just broadcasting TV channels onto mobiles isn’t where the success will be. Though [...]
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TV –>> Mobile
There’s been an increasing amount of debate in the Blogosphere about TV on mobiles and what’s actually going to happen now it’s available (albeit at early stage and limited availability). There’s certainly seems to be a consensus among pundits I rate that just broadcasting TV channels onto mobiles isn’t where the success will be. Though [...]
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Napster Goes Pre-Pay
Napster is the first online music service to offer pre-pay cards in retailers – just the Dixons’ Group for now, which includes Dixons, Currys, The Link and PC World, according to TechDigest. Cards cost £14.95 for 15 tracks, £56.95 for 60 tracks and £25.95 for a 3-month subscription. There’s also an interesting article here on [...]
Moore’s Law in Action
Dana Blankenhorn’s Corante column (Moore’s Law) covers an illustration of the future effect of the law on the mobile industry. The prospect is both fascinating and slightly scary. David Wood, executive vice president for research at Symbian presented a couple of slides at a conference in Scotland. The slides can be viewed on the Sem@code [...]
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The Word According to Pousti
Michael Pousti is CEO of sms.ac, which has the largest user base in the world with millions of users across 170 countries. This makes him the next Bill Gates, according to me He gave the Keynote Address yesterday at Global Mobile Congress 2004 in Shanghai, China (reported in Prime Zone) and concerned himself with two [...]
Advertising and Promotion
A long, long time ago (1996 I’d guess) there was an email discussion list called UKMN, which later became UK Netmarketing. All the movers and shakers in the UK web scene subscribed and it was a source of much advice, inspiration, fun and bitter flames wars. You can still sign up at Chinwag if you’re [...]
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Spider Woman is Real
Not much to do with mobile, but sometimes you just have to blog something. I came across this while searching for something else on Xinhuanet. Obviously, it could be another Photoshop mashup, but who cares? —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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The Wisdom of Nog
Following my blog yesterday about GMTV launching their own Java Portal (Yet Another Java Portal), New Media Zero covered the story. They had a great quote from the ever quotable, Nog Sawdon, Head of Interactive at GMTV. ‘Punters don’t give a stuff about O2 or Vodafone but they do care about GMTV and the brands [...]
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Mobile Information Exchange
Kwickee bills itself as a Mobile Information Exchange (MIX – their TLA) or “a service that not only allows your mobile to become a gateway to a vast library of content but also to add your very own content for others to buy”. A kind of eBay for mobile content, bringing buyers and sellers of [...]
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