I posted last Thursday a woman snapping a cameraphone picture of a guy that exposed himself to her on the New York City subway, and how she’d posted it on Flickr and given it to police. The story’s now a dual-meme phenomenon (with citizen journalism, sort of), as the New York Daily News ran the [...]
Archive | August, 2005
Thoughts on Convergence
There’s been a lot of talk lately about converging mobile and fixed lines with technologies like UMA. The common thinking goes that mobile networks will grab traffic from fixed lines when users can take advantage of the benefits of mobile networks and the cheap prices of fixed VoIP in a single device — but I’m [...]
Location-Based Mobile Media Course
Just because operators in Europe are reluctant to get into location-based services and their cousins in the US are dragging their heels over implementing Directive 911, doesn’t mean that the rest of us have given up on LBS. Pasta and Vinegar reports that The University of Southern California has launched a Location-Based Mobile Media Course, [...]
Congrats to O2
It can be too easy to focus on the mistakes operators make when you’re blogging – a bit like restaurant critics usually have something to critisise with even the best meal. After all, a constant diet of "Golly gosh, it was just scrumptious and the service was fab" would be a little boring for the [...]
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Q2 Handset Market Share
Gartner’s come out with its assessment of the second-quarter handset market, and there aren’t any surprises, really: Nokia and Motorola continue to eke out gains, while Samsung continues to drop, along with Siemens. Most stories compare the current quarter’s results to the same quarter last year; I think that looking at last quarter’s share percentages [...]
Mobile Phone Sousveillance In Action Again
The idea of mobile sousveillance/coveillance/equiveillance has got legs. Today, Boing Boing links to a Flickr post by a woman that says she snapped a picture of a guy that exposed himself to her on the New York City subway. She later took the photo to police, hoping it would help them catch the guy, but [...]
Can you speak up a Little?
One of the annoying side effects of living in an iPod world is that I frequently find myself having to repeat what I just said, as the other person turns off/down their iPod. And at the risk of sounding like a real old fart, I’m always muttering warnings to my kids like "it’s too loud, [...]
Nowhere To Hide
One of my pet themes here is that we’re moving steadily to a world where it’s increasingly easy to access digital data via the mobile phone. As broadband download speeds become the norm, using your mobile to see web pages, will be as commonplace as calling someone. Of course, many people are already doing this [...]
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Mobile Porn Sales Pretty Flaccid
There have been plenty of people, err… pumping up the mobile porn market, not the least of which the mobile porn sellers themselves, billing the content as the ever-elusive “killer app” for mobile. The numbers have been a little suspect all along, whether it’s saying half of Korea has accessed mobile porn, or the supposed [...]
Comment of the Week – from Chris
by on 26. Aug, 2005 in Comment of the Week
In response to my completely unprovoked attack on the advertising industry earlier in the week (42% of Advertising Executives are Dim, finds McKinsey Research), Chris of Aerodeon, a veteran mobile marketing company in the UK, took a slightly more reasonable approach in his comment of explanation. Thanks Chris for the comment of the week: Because [...]