This week the carnival looks at a range of mobile issues from mobile web site performance, top 10 mobile sites, mobile mash-ups from Nokia, mobile payments, QR codes, mobile TV and a piece from this blog about Blyk’s use of “relevancy and dialogue” that has helped propel them to their 100,000th user.
By Andrew Grill
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Posted April 27, 2008
in carnival
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Tagged blyk, carnival, carnival of the mobilists, codes, mashups, mobile, mobilists, Nokia, payments, performance, QR, sites, tv, web
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I noticed today in the Daily Telegraph and also the Financial Times here in London that Blyk has reached a milestone of 100,000 users five months ahead of schedule. Blyk has an interesting business model and target segment, 16-24 year olds who receive 43 minutes and 217 texts free per month in return for consenting [...]
This week’s instalment of the carnival is bursting with mobile news and views. Head over to skydeck where you can read posts from Sascha Konietzke from funkfeuer, Krisse from All About Symbian, Ajit from Open Gardens, John Puterbaugh from Nellymoser, Matt Davies from Taptu, Igor Faletski from mobscure, Jamie Wells at mobilestance, Peggy Salz from [...]
I found a fascinating article in a recent edition of Newsweek called Emotional Connections. The article describes an installation at the New York Museum of Modern Art called New York Talk Exchange. Here, MIT have been provided with real time phone records from AT&T and they have a live map of the different connections happening [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted April 20, 2008
in opinion
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Tagged advertising, connections, Exchange, geography, geography of power, global, gps, gsma, location, MIT, mobile, Modern, Museum, new, new york museum of modern art, NYTE, power, profiling, targeted advertising, targted advertising, time, user, York, youtube
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This year I was not able to attend Oxford University’s Forum Oxford Conference, but the next best thing – having my friend and fellow blogger Martin Sauter write up a comprehensive review over at wireless moves has allowed me to catch up with what transpired at the conference last week. I also had the opportunity [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted April 20, 2008
in conference
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Tagged 3G, bbc, broadband, conference, daily, data, flat, forum, iplayer, mobile, mobility, oxford, oxford forum, rate, telegraph, thought leadership, wirelessmoves
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It is always a pleasure to spend some time with Bena Roberts from GoMo news, and I was able to have lunch with her last week during the MMA Event in London. I also caught up with Richard Saggers who is the current MMA Chair for EMEA and is also the head of Mobile Advertising [...]
Looking through this week’s Economist, my eye was drawn to a full page ad, promoting the naming rights for the Dubai Metro – to be completed in 2009. The print ad directs you to the Road and Traffic Authority’s website for the Government of Dubai, which then points to a special website www.metronamingrights.com. Here, there [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted April 19, 2008
in advertising, outdoor
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Tagged advertising, destination, dubai, economist, metro, mobile, naming, outdoor, rights, vodafone
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Over at mobileljones.com you will find this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists, where you will see a reflection of mobile’s push to data and multimedia in 2008, and how handset companies, former handset companies, internet companies, new entrants and social networking giants are all involved in mashups of services. Once again, the mobile world’s finest provide [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted April 14, 2008
in carnival
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Tagged carnival, carnival of the mobilists, facebook, google, lbs, location, mash, mobile, mobilejones, wireless
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Andrew will be speaking at the Navigation and Location Europe 2008 conference, organised by Telematics Update magazine on June 4th – 5th at the Marriott Hotel in Amsterdam. Built on the long running success of 4 years of navigation conferences, Navigation and Location Europe 2008 represents the next step forward for the industry. Joining Nokia, [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted April 6, 2008
in applications, conference, location, mobile, speaking
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Tagged conference, lbs, location, navigation, telematics, update
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The article in the Times states “Husbands who are not where they are supposed to be could soon be in danger of being “sniffed” out by a mobile phone service that gives suspicious partners an electronic map showing the location of their spouse.” The service is apparently coming to the UK soon, from US company [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted April 1, 2008
in applications, location, mobile, privacy
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Tagged facebook, lbs, liberty, location, media, networking, online, sniff, social, times, tracking
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