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 [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted December 14, 2011
in mobile
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Tagged bus mobile service, bus tomes, londo bus arrivals, london, london bus, london bus mobile, london bus times, london buses, mobile bus times, mobile bus timetable, sms mobile uses, TFL, Transport for London, transport for london.bus countdown, when will my bus arrive
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Seen in Chiswick Park, London. Has made me smile for the last 5 years. Click the image for full size version.
I am very fortunate to be in the position that I will get to see two Olympic games in my lifetime, having lived in Sydney during the 2000 games, and now living with my family in London. At the 2000 games, I was a Volunteer, and saw the opening ceremony twice! Once during the dress [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted June 24, 2011
in olympics
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Tagged 2000, 2012, 2012 tickets, Atlanta 1996, Atlanta Games, Atlanta Olympics, BellSouth, london, London 2012, London 2012 Olympic Games, London 2012 tickets, olympic games, Olympic volunteer, olympics, sydney 2000
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I’m a big fan of outdoor advertising (hey I even used it to propose to my now wife in Sydney back in 2004 using 3 Vespa scooters towing signs each spelling out marry-me-Samantha and following her around Sydney during her morning walk to the harbour bridge). As recent visitors to the Royal wedding would have [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted May 5, 2011
in advertising
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Tagged advertising, bacardi, bacardi facebook, bacardi status update, Clear Channel, google, google voice search, great outdoor campaigns, Havas media, JCDecaux, london, london underground, look media, mobile, mobile advertising, ocean outdoor, ooh, out of home, outdoor, propoal, royal wedding.london visitors, scooter proposal, social, social media agency, socialyse, vespa proposal sydney, wedding proposal, Westfield, Westfield London
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I saw this sign affixed to a traffic light in Gloucester Road in West London this morning. What a great use of SMS to report traffic light faults. Click the photo below for a better view. The great thing is that the instructions are clear, and it provides enough detail to allow the right level of response. [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted December 13, 2010
in SMS
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Tagged 66835, code, fault, fault reporting, Gloucester road, lights, london, mayor of london, sms, sms fault reporting, sms faults, sms reporting, sms voting, TFL, traffic, traffic lights, Transport for London, x-factor, xfactor
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I snapped this outside Gloucester Road tube station on Thursday 2nd December. It clearly needs no caption – but describes the travel misery facing London and most of the UK at the moment.
After attending the Visiongain Mobile Advertising and Marketing Awards (MAMA) and Conference in London on Thursday, I was asked by a number of people on twitter if I could post a list of the winners and the categories for the awards. Listed below are the categories and the winners – congratulations to all those who [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted May 8, 2009
in advertising
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Tagged 2ego, admob, Charing Cross Hotel, Inside Mobile, jumptap, london, MAMA, MAMA 2009, Marvellous Mobile, mobile advertising awards, mobile advertising winners, mobile awards, Paran Johar, Prin'Vision, turkcell, txtNation, Upstream, Useful Networks, visiongain, Visiongain Mobile Advertising and Marketing Awards
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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 [...]
I’ve been invited to speak at the first London Geo/Mobile Developers Meetup next Thursday 27th November – hosted by Google at their offices in Victoria. Christopher Osborne has put together an exciting program for the first event with three exciting presenters: Yahoo Fire Eagle – Gary Gale (Yahoo! Geo Technologies) CloudMade/Open Street Map – Nick Black [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted November 19, 2008
in location
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Tagged cloudmade, Developers Meetup, Gary Gale, Geo Mobile, google, lba, lbs, location, location based services, london, Nick Black, november 27, Open Street Map, yahoo
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I attended a fantastic Future of Mobile conference in London on Monday attended by well over 450 people at the Kensington Town Hall in London. There have already been a number of write-ups of the event, but the most interesting one came from Alan Patrick who was not even at the event. He was following [...]
Welcome to edition 146 of Carnival of the Mobilists. It might be my birthday this week, but you get all the presents in terms of some fantastic posts from the world of mobile. This week, the carnival comes to you from London as the attention of the mobile world is focussed on Earls Court and [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted October 20, 2008
in carnival
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Tagged 3g americas, 3g broadband router, advertising, Ajit Jaokar, bango whitepaper, carnival, carnival of the mobilists, Chetan Sharma, eu, european union, g1, google andriod, handheld learning, iphone, london, london calling, marketing, mobile advertising, mobile blogs, mobile marketing for newbies, mobile marketing whitepaper, mobile video, mobilists, msearchgroove, mtrends, nfc, Nokia 5800, peggy salz, Rude de Wade, smartphone show, symbian, thought leadership
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If you have not read my recent post – is twitter a serious business tool or just a complete waste of time, then you may not know the answer. Suffice to say, those that hold the former view are having an inaugural “Eat’n’tweet” this Thursday 3rd July at 1pm at The Couch 97 Dean Street, [...]
I have been reading a ton of reviews and views on the new iPhone and so have resisted blogging about it, save my views just become caught up in the iPhone noise. Travelling home tonight on the tube, I picked up a copy of London Lite, one of London’s two free evening newspapers. On one [...]
As a non iPhone user, I almost missed the news from Steve Job’s Mac World address that the iPhone would be receiving new firmware. Because I don’t own the device, I have no need to update the firmware, but reading this official Google blog post, something caught my eye. Then over the next few days others [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted January 20, 2008
in location
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Tagged advertising, apple, google, google my location, gps, iphone, lbs, Local, location, london, mapping, maps, marketing, mobile, mylocation, positioning, skyhook
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The picture on the left (taken late December 2007) shows a more common sight than a few years ago. I have been using WiFi in Starbucks and other coffee shops for nearly 8 years now, and for I think the last 6 years I was predictably the only person on a laptop (connected to WiFi) [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted January 9, 2008
in mobile broadband
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Tagged 3, 3G, 3G broadband, bbc, bill thompson, coffee shop, dongle, high speed packet access, hsdpa, london, mobile, starbucks, vodafone, WiFi, WiFi hotspots, WiFi vs 3G
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I came across a new site called dopplr.com via another blog reference, and also featured in the Guardian. For those familiar with twitter, which essentially tells you where your friends are and what they are doing, dopplr takes this concept into a business context and allows connected business travellers to share their travel plans – so [...]
Saw this very smart piece of digital outdoor from CBS Outdoor who look after advertising on the underground system in London. It really shows you how digital creative will transform outdoor – well it made me stop, look and take a video of it! This creative is being played out on High Definition flat panel [...]
July 4, 2006: Andrew Grill Appointed South Australian Business Ambassador in the UK A team of hand-picked networkers will voluntarily extol the virtues of South Australia during business dealings in Europe, promoting the state as a place to live, work and invest. Appointed by Premier Mike Rann, the volunteers are a mixture of Australian expatriates [...]
