As I wrote yesterday, last week I was a judge in the final of Vodafone Mobile Clicks in Amsterdam, where €150,000 in prize money was up for grabs to award the best mobile internet startups around. The second prize was won by UK newcomer, Roulette Cricket, who walked away with €50,000. Roulette Cricket started life [...]
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akvo’s Smart Idea for Charity
Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to be a judge at the finals of Vodafone Mobile Clicks, run by the Vodafone Developer Team and held at Amsterdam’s Picnic 2010. The winner and runner up won €100,000 and €50,000 respectively, so it was certainly a prize worth winning and well done Vodafone for [...]
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Carnival of the Mobilists #217
The mighty Carnival of the Mobilists has rolled into town again, this week at Martin Wilson’s Indigo102. Check it out for the very best of this week’s blogging about mobile. If you’re a blogger, you should volunteer to host a Carnival in the next month or two. It’s interesting to do, but it also boosts [...]
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Um, No, You Can’t Spam Our Subscribers, But Thanks
We just got an interesting email in to MobHappy Towers: Russel & Carlo, [company we thought was reputable, and which you've definitely heard of]‘s partner and developer team is interested in purchasing email lists from MobHappy. Could you please provide me with the following information? * Number of unique monthly visitors to your site * [...]
Congrats Russell and the rest of the AdMob team!
You might have heard that Google’s buying AdMob. My co-blogger Russell was, of course, AdMob’s first employee, and he’s far too modest to bring up the deal here — so I’m going to do it for him! Congrats to Russell and the rest of the AdMob team, especially its founder, Omar. It’s been exciting watching [...]
10+ Brands to Speak in Berlin
One of the features of many, many mobile marketing conferences in the last few years is “talking to ourselves” syndrome. This can be defined as a whole bunch of speakers (mainly vendors, it has to be said) preaching to each other what we already knew – namely that mobile marketing is going to be great. [...]
1.5 Million Free Books for iPhones
Google announced yesterday that they had extended their Book Search project to mobile, which means that they’ve turned iPhones and Android handsets into book readers. Which is a pretty cool concept, I’d say. The portfolio consists of 1.5 million free books that are in the public domain (ie out of copyright), which normally means pretty [...]
Predictions for 2009
While we’re on the subject of Predictions from MobHappy, we’ll be having a little change in procedure for 2009, to reflect some of the changes that are happening in mobile. No, we’re not doing them at the end of the year or anything like that. But we will be publishing them on Twitter, in headline [...]
50 Most Important People in Mobile Content
Many thanks to the team at Mobile Entertainment Magazine for elevating me into their ’50 Most Important People in Mobile Content’ for the second year running – very flattering. In fairness, the list is probably more controversial than Maradona’s Hand of God goal in 1986 because it’s just so hard to choose such a list [...]
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