Irakli (a fellow immigrant Munchener) interviewed me last week for PSFK Trend and TRND, a sort of German language equivalent. The interview is actually on their subscription site, IF. But whether by design or some worm hole in the space:time continuum, you can read it here if you want. Well, you can when I’m writing [...]
Archive | August, 2005
Happy Blog Day
Today is Blog Day, in case you missed it. A day to celebrate blogs and blogging everywhere. The idea was thought up and promoted by Nir Ofir of SparkArmada blog and jolly good it is too. There’s two components: 1. If you’re a blogger, list 5 blogs on your site that you enjoy and think [...]
Still Waiting On The New Mobile RSS Paradigm
I posted several months ago on TheFeature some thoughts on how RSS could change the way information’s distributed to mobile devices. There hasn’t been a lot of action in the space, but I’m holding to my original idea. I should probably also reiterate at this point I’m not talking about using RSS on mobile phones [...]
Free Mobile Porn
Sadly, not for you — unless you happen to be in Bengbu, China. Some vendors there are using free pornographic video clips to entice people to buy phones, using them to demonstrate the video playback capabilities of devices, then loading them on the phone after purchase. The police there haven’t figured out how to crack [...]
Seriously, What Are They Thinking?
I’ve made my thoughts on the iTunes phone, particularly how it’s set to underwhelm, pretty clear. Now it’s come out that September 7 is supposed to be THE day it gets launched (though I wouldn’t hold anybody to that). But, the phone’s getting suckier and suckier. The day started with a piece from the WSJ [...]
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Teens Enjoy Illicit Mobile Phone Usage
I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the problem of filtering content to make sure kids don’t get exposed to undesirable stuff from the net on their phones. With a computer, there’s loads of filtering options, including perhaps the most effective of keeping it in a communal part of the house and making a [...]
More Musical Greed
One of the most innovative online music initiatives in recent times, has been the subscription model. Services like (new) Napster, Yahoo and Rhapsody offer you as much music as you can cram onto your hard drive for a fixed monthly subscription of between $5 and $9.95 a month – provided you keep paying your subscription. [...]
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Cameraphones: Empowering Stupid Criminals Everywhere
Following yesterday’s update on the subway perv, two more examples of criminals being exposed via mobile phones popped up this morning: – A New York man has been able to give police images of the guy that stole his phone after the thief unknowingly uploaded all the photos he took of himself, his girlfriend, and [...]
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A Mobile Marketing Winner from Lucozade and Return2Sender
One of my bug bears is the lack of creativity in mobile marketing campaigns. About the most exciting it gets is yet another Text and Win promotion. So it’s great to see something that gets my marketing heart beating a little faster. The on-pack mechanic invites people to register for the promotion by sms, sending [...]
The Remorseless Rise of VoIP
A new study by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) makes worrying reading for mobile and fixed line operators alike. The research found that users of retail VoIP services had more than doubled in the last year, from 5 million to 11 million at the end of July. But this doesn’t include computer-based [...]
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