I’m currently in China on a bit of an exploratory trip, meeting various VCs, entrepreneurs, government and academic people. It’s too early to get much of an impression – I’m jetlagged and in a hotel in the western suburbs of Shanghai and about half an hour’s drive through mad traffic from the famous Bund and [...]
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Mobile Vouchers – The Next Billion Dollar Market?
You may have read in the news over last few weeks that I’ve taken the decision to return to a full time role in the mobile marketing scene, as Chief Marketing Officer of Eagle Eye Solutions in the UK. I thought I’d take the opportunity here to explain my thinking a little and why I [...]
On a Personal Note
It’s a while since I’ve been blogging regularly, but as I’m now leaving Google, 5 years to the month that I started at AdMob, I want to get back to some more writing. Not necessarily just here, but guest posts on other sites and maybe even in print, if that isn’t sooo last century. I [...]
Euro Mobile Events 2: WIPJam @ IT-Profits, Berlin, June 9
As I said earlier, I’ll be over in Berlin on June 9 for the WIPJam @ IT-Profits, an event running alongside LinuxTag. The focus of this Jam is on mobile business solutions and enterprise development, and the agenda is shaping up nicely with speakers from Xing, Intel, Feedhenry, Visiarc, Getjar, Yoose, Enough Software, Augmented Citizen [...]
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London’s Calling
Man alive! As the cool kids are starting to say again. It’s been a while since I posted here – Twitter is a cruel and selfish mistress. Just wanted to write that I’m in London next week for 3 interesting speaking events – all different, but all very interesting. Monday sees me chairing a very [...]
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Catching Up On Things… New Degree, New Job, New City
Many of you know I’ve been working on my MBA here in Las Vegas for the last couple of years. I’m happy to announce that I’m very nearly finished with it, and graduate on Saturday! With that accomplished, there are some changes coming for me. First, I’m glad to say that my wife and I [...]
40% off M-Football Tickets
I’m just getting my agenda sorted out for the year and the first event I’m doing is M-Football next week in London, which looks like a great kick off (sorry!) for the World Cup year and one which will be hugely important for mobile too. If you’d like a whopping 40% off and a day [...]
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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 [...]
Things That Made Me Go “Cool Beans” This Week
The title isn’t very Google friendly, but you can’t have everything. But here indeed are a few things of interest this week. – I’ve been using a neat little application called Xobni recently, which is a free app that helps you manage email so much easier. It works as an extension to Outlook and really [...]
Coming to San Francisco, Orlando and Barcelona
Just a quick update on my travel plans in the next month – if you’re in the area, maybe we can get together and say Hi. I’m in San Mateo from 20th – 23rd January, Orlando for mPlanet (which looks like it’ll be great) from 24th to 28th January and of course, dear old Barcelona [...]
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