- Social Networking Goes Mobile (BusinessWeek) – Is .mobi a good idea? (Telephony) – 911 Cell Phone Bank takes old phones, postage paid (Engadget Mobile) – Camera Phones Kill Memories (Picturephoning.com) – Mobile Phones Can Become A Tool To Help Fight Spread Of Avian Flu (IBD) – Motorola needs an heir to the RAZR -Gartner [...]
Archive | May, 2006
Should We Just Give Up On Mobile Data and Content?
If you look past Vodafone’s huge paper loss last year, and take a look at their otherwise fairly satisfying results, you’ll see that data, excluding SMS, accounts for less than four percent of its revenues. Also note the semi-regular stories saying people don’t want advanced features on their handsets, and those that have them don’t [...]
Tocmags – UGC Java Mags
User generated content is the new new thing at the moment – both online and in mobile – and unless you’ve been living under a stone, you can’t fail to have noticed the buzz. I’ve been looking at Tocmag recently, which allows you to create your own Java magazine for friends, family and colleagues to [...]
Links for May 30
- Plazes Mobile Beta (Blethers.com) – GCALSYNC: Operator Lockdown Strikes Again? (Matt Croydon) – HMV to sell CDs by mobile (reg. req’d, The Guardian) – Time’s Cameraphone Photographer of the Year Contest (Picturephoning.com) – Virgin Mobile introduces ad-subsidized calls (Reuters) – German operators start TV-to-mobile phones experiment (AFP) —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and [...]
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Swedish Beers
If you’re in London on 14th June, come along to the Swedish Beers mobile networking event, an ancient institution, dating back about 5 years now. It’s at the Nordic Bar from 6.30 and is very informal – no presentations or anything, just chance to meet, mingle and mix with other people from mobile, media and [...]
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Listen with Keren
I was interviewed yesterday by Keren Flavell for The Mobile Media Show – which was great as it’s one of my favourite podcasts. You can hear the results here or subscribe at iTunes. Let me know what you think. And be kind please. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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Real World Wiki Gets Closer
Last August, I gave a speech at Wikimania (a conference for passionate Wikipedists) in which I envisioned a Real World Wikipedia. The idea I was promoting was that we could annotate our real world environment with a kind of virtual graffiti, which we could access via our mobile phones. The graffiti could be factual (Wikipedia [...]
Download the Web to Your Phone
Webaroo is a great application that allows you to download websites to your computer and your mobile, if you happen to be a Windows mobile user. If you use your lappy offline a lot – travelling or perhaps presenting to clients without web access – you can visit websites you use frequently and they’ll automatically [...]
Carnival of the Mobilists # 29 at Open Gardens
Head on over to Ajit Jaokar’s Open Gardens blog for this week’s collection of best writing about mobile from around the web. Ajit’s done a great job, as befits someone with whom I wrote a book once! In case you missed it, the Carnival now has its own website and it’s sponsored by our friends [...]
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Microsoft Looking To Buy Third Screen Media
Third Screen Media, the mobile advertising company I spoke to at CTIA, is reportedly in buyout talks with Microsoft’s MSN unit, according to The Wall Street Journal. In addition to already having a good client base, what impressed me about Third Screen was its understanding of what’s needed for ad-supported content to succeed, both in [...]
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