Good luck with the event, Giles. Please keep me updated with any developments.

Clara, carrier charges definitely need to be thought about. But I’d see this working either via WAP or via a new interface, such as Siemens. In both cases, the cost could be much less than say, sms.

If I was in charge of launching the Siemens project though, I’d try to ensure that Wikipedia entries and viewing were both free.

This is partly as it would be great publicity. But more pragmatically, the free service would effectively promote and trial the paid services. Skype’s huge growth has shown that making a core offering free, gets you massive penetration as a brand. Then you can start to sell premium services around it.

I’d use a similar model in this case, if they want to get the platform inserted into the very fabric of society.

Russell

“You click on an old house in the road and a wealth of digital information comes onto your phone screen.”

Check http://www.dontclick.it/ and see how there are more choices than just clicking. I understand speaking about clicking is convenient of course and I’m mentioning this just in case you had not known about http://www.dontclick.it yet.

If the content is user-created and therefore free, it’s really the data charges by the carriers that’s barring the way, isn’t it? And a whole slew of other things, but I could definitely see people taking it upon themselves to add digital post-it notes to places, especially the ‘thumb tribe’ generation…