I’m attending the Mobile Marketing Forum in Singapore at the moment and jolly interesting it is too. Overall, the spurious “year of mobile marketing” (not that there is such a thing really – I mean when was the year of the car, or the internet?) does seem to be in the past. Brands such as [...]
Archive | April, 2009
Carnival of the Mobilists #171
Check out the very best writing about mobile this week at Carnival of the Mobilists #171, this week hosted at Catalyst Code. Head on over there to read some great posts, as always. if you’re interested in hosting a Carnival at your own blog and benefiting from the resulting boost in traffic, act now, as [...]
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Striking the Balance in Ad-Supported Content
There’s been lots of talk about the bright future for ad-supported, versus paid, mobile content. I’m generally pretty bullish on the idea — if it’s done correctly. A big point to consider is the balance between content and advertising, and making sure that you’re not overwhelming your customers with too many ads, outweighing the value [...]
Cleaning Out The Link Drawer
this one is going to stretch back several weeks, but enjoy anyway: – Get an SMS… from your lawnmower – iPhone Web Usage Continues to Rise — Even On T-Mobile’s Network – Mobile phones turning “surveillance society” on its head? – RIM CEO on BlackBerry Storm: “nobody gets it perfect out the door” – This [...]
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Making Cameraphone Interfaces Reflect How They’re Used
My foibles with the camera in my Nokia E71 are well documented. Given its limitations, I swapped it for a Nokia N82 when I went and saw The Killers break in a new venue here in Las Vegas last weekend. Great show, I definitely recommend seeing the band if they come to a town near [...]
1 Billion Apps
Keep that in mind the next time somebody tells you people don’t like to download apps on their phone. And remember Buckley’s Law #31: Citizens will download applications, providing it’s very clear what the application does and what the benefits of using it are. As well as its corollary, Longino Revised Statute 31.31/b: Citizens will [...]
Welcome Back
To me, that is It’s been a while. As many of you know, I started work on an MBA in the fall, and this semester has been pretty brutal on the work front. Combined with a job/internship search in this economy (coupled with Vegas’ 10%+ unemployment rate), and time has been pretty short. In any [...]
Valencia Festival of Media
I’ve been tweeting a lot from the Valencia Festival of Media, where I have been lucky enough to join a very distinguished line up of judges (and I do mean really distinguished) and speakers. I find that tweeting lends itself very well to live reportage and I’ve pasted below most of my tweets for those [...]
Tweeting
As the beady-eyed among you might have noticed, I (Russell) have slowed down a lot on the blogging front of late. This is partly due to being busy, but also a lot to do with that I’m Tweeting much more these days. So I subconsciously feeling that I’ve been communicating a lot, when actually I [...]
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Carnival #169 at Always On Real-Time Access
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is at the esteemed Chetan Sharma’s Always On Real-Time Access and features the best writing from around the blogosphere. We started the Carnival here at MobHappy and I’m pleased to see it’s still trundling on, and these days includes many of the leading thinkers and writers in the mobile [...]
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