Some months ago, I was speaking to Paul Clarke (@paul_clarke) about his role on the Mayor’s Digital Advisory Board and what they were doing with public transport data. Specifically I asked “when will I be able to see how long it is until my bus turns up via my mobile?”. What I was after was [...]
I am in San Francisco at the moment, meeting with the PeopleBrowsr crew and some other key clients and partners. I arrived over the weekend, so had a chance to indulge in some retail therapy on a wet Sunday afternoon. What struck me is that everywhere I went, people were talking about or promoting Black [...]
I read with interest the piece in the Telegraph by Katherine Rushton titled London 2012 Olympics: chaos for mobile phones and the comments underneath the piece from outraged Londoners. For those of us for which this is our first taste of an Olympics in our home town or country, some of the antics such as [...]
NEW YORK— From a story about the best customer service you never knew was possible comes the best hardcover book you never knew was digital. McGraw-Hill Professional’s most recent publication, “The Zappos Experience”, written by best-selling author Joseph Michelli, bridges the gap between the printed and digital world using QR codes embedded in over 15 individual chapters. Link.Me is [...]
[UPDATE] I have managed to get the phone back to the brand new state via the BlackBerry desktop manager (the first phone was completely dead). The Vodafone team told me that there is a known issue with the Vodafone Bold 9900 version and they are trying to provide an over the air (OTA) fix, but [...]
I saw this in a street in SOHO in London, a huge QR code hung on a building. As I took this photo, I overheard some people nearby saying “So what, you just take a picture of it? That’s wicked.” Following my tweet about this, Raimo van der Klein (CEO of Augmented Reality leader Layar) tweeted [...]
MEF calls the expanding mobile ecosystem to congregate in London on July 6 & 7 for 2 days of insights, networking and celebration ‘MEF Global 2011: Mobile Content & Commerce’ event launched MEF CEO Summit & Ruby Wax-hosted annual Meffys set new bar for industry’s top mobile content and commerce players April 21, 2011, London [...]
I was recently interviewed by Graham Brown for an upcoming episode of MobileYouth.tv looking at mobile youth trends for 2011, and my interview together with a bunch of around 29 thought leaders has been put together to form “50 Ideas to Shape 2011”. The result is a 5 part presentation containing over 200 slides covering [...]
Taptu, the social media and technology company, is announcing the release of My Taptu, its new social news aggregator available for the iPhone, iPod Touch and Android devices. Aimed directly at solving the problem of information overload (or what’s been called “filter failure”), My Taptu gives you instant access to the latest buzz on all [...]
“Mobile is a crucial part of Guardian News & Media’s digital strategy” – Janine Gibson, editor, guardian.co.uk A new mobile site for guardian.co.uk launches today with an enhanced design, faster updates and a range of new features. The new mobile site – m.guardian.co.uk – is ad-funded, free for mobile users to access on all handsets [...]
Research from the Internet Advertising Bureau finds that smartphone users are 63% more likely to engage with m-commerce New research from the Internet Advertising Bureau – the trade association for online and mobile advertising – reveals that mobile commerce has already become widely adopted in the UK, with 51% of mobile owners (23 million people) using [...]
Roll up! Roll up! For the AppCircus 2010 Tour. Step right this way, there’s one coming to a city near you. September 20, 2010: AppCircus (www.appcircus.com), the unique global travelling showcase of the most innovative and creative apps, today announced the launch of its 2010 Tour. Over the next four months, it will be setting up [...]
I received a note via LinkedIn from an old contact Theresa Mascarenhas about a new iPhone app she has developed for Children called “When I Grow Up (Vol.1)”. It sounds like a great use for the iPhone platform so I thought I would promote it here. When I Grow Up is the first personalized children’s [...]
IAB to drive research in the mobile industry with appointment of Alex Kozloff as dedicated mobile manager The Internet Advertising Bureau – the trade body for online and mobile advertising – has appointed Alex Kozloff, former media research manager at Unanimis, to expand its mobile research and education programme in the UK. Working alongside head [...]
Foursquare seems to be in the news a lot recently, and is starting to exhibit a similar hype curve to that of Twitter. Update 15 March 2010: with one tweet from @mrskutcher (aka Demi Moore) the battle of the location based social media platforms is now over. Now that she is on Foursquare and other [...]
I have the pleasure of rounding out 2009 with the final Carnival of the Mobilists for the year – and for the decade! When I think back to where I was and what I was doing 10 years ago in 1999, and where I am in the world now – it has been an amazing [...]
I have been involved with the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) for some time now, and really admire the hard work that EMEA MD Paul Berney has put into developing the UK and European chapters over the last 18 months. As an example of the MMA “drinking their own champagne” (I like this expression so much [...]
On Saturday 4th July, I visited the Wimbledon Championships as a guest of IBM, in relation to a book I am writing on the business use of twitter (more on this in an upcoming post). IBM, in conjunction with their advertising Agency Ogilvy has served up three brilliant applications for the 2009 Wimbledon Championships. You [...]
I met Aran Hamilton at Mobile World Congress, and he could not tell me much about his current project, but he has been in touch to reveal that Zoompass is now live. More from the release below – it looks really interesting. Zoompass, Canada’s first mobile payment service is a new fast, safe, and convenient [...]
After coming off stage from a really enjoyable presentation at Mobile Monday Amsterdam, Klaas Weima from Energize.nl asked if I would be prepared to do podcast, and at the same time Matthijs Van Den Broek from Marketing Facts asked if he could do a Vodcast about my talk. I was delighted to participate, and [...]
Busy day here in Amsterdam at the Mobile Advertising 2009 conference, with my friend Jonathan MacDonald chairing – I’m up tomorrow. Today there has been a lot of noise and discussion in the press about the changes at Blyk and in Jonathan’s post ”Blyk Is Not Closing: The Facts As Of 13th May 2009 “ he [...]
Introducing a new section here – the end game. Every week I find things that I’d like to share with London Calling readers – things that are too short for a full blog post, but too long for a tweet. Those of you who do blog will know that it takes a lot of spare [...]
Here is a lesson in how not to use mobile as a channel. I just had an experience that proves to me that some companies still don’t get the personal nature of mobile, and the overarching need to ask PERMISSION to engage. I won’t name the company concerned because they have removed my mobile number [...]
I caught an interesting article in today’s Financial Times by John Gapper titled “Madison Avenue feels the squeeze“. In the article, John looks at how the battle between the “suits” (account execs) and the creatives (the ones who craft the campaigns) seems to be back on. Quoting from the article, John says “Four decades later, [...]
Unfortunately as I have been “ɹǝpun uʍop” all week (I have a raft of posts pending on the Australian market), I missed out on attending the IAB debate on mobile advertising held in London this week. A review on the event from the IAB website is provided below. Looks like a great event – and further evidence that [...]
Over at Chetan Sharma’s excellent Always On Real Time Access, you will see a gathering of mobilists in the form of the following Ajit Jaokar, Tomi Ahonen, Martin Sauter, Russell Buckley, Some Aussie guy, Barbara Ballard, Judy Breck and James Pearce among others Also, time for a shout-out to our friends at MOMO Amsterdam. They [...]
An interesting survey by KPMG has shown that 40 percent of UK respondents indicated they are willing to watch ads on their mobiles in return for free music, followed by 28 percent who will view ads to access instant messaging. These figures are even higher globally – 49 percent for free music and 44 percent [...]
I have been following what the team at PMN have been doing for a few years now with their annual mobile user experience conference called MEX. The MEX 2009 event will be held from 19-20th May in London – full details are on the MEX website. The event founder, Marek Pawlowski is apparently a fan [...]
This week’s best of mobile blogging – the carnival of the mobilists is over at mjelly. Great posts again this week ranging from online sites moving to mobile, android apps, SMS marketing, pricing the new gravity twitter application, and how we can enhance the ICE (In Case of Emergency) information stored on phones at the [...]
