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Carnival of the Mobilists 173 at VOIP Survivor

This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists, the weekly summary of the best and brightest from mobile blogs around the world, is being hosted by Tsahi Levent-Levi on his VoIP Survivor blog. This week brings you gems from some of the heavyweights, like Tomi Ahonen (on mobile data), Russell Buckley (on an SMS/MMS ad service that [...]

Carnival of the mobilists 169 at Chetan Sharma’s AORTA

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 [...]

Carnival of the mobilists 166 at WIP Jam Sessions

This week’s carnival of the mobilists is over at the Wireless Industry Partnership WIP Jam Sessions blog with some great posts from Andreas Constantinou, Volker Hirsch, and Antoine RJ Wright (who interviewed Tomi Ahonen). The team at WIP Jam sessions also nominated our post on the MMA Brands and Agencies meeting as their post of the [...]

Carnival of the mobilists 157 at mjelly

Over at mjelly, you will find this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists. James has thoughtfully split up this weeks best posts in mobile into several discrete sections. On the mobile market, Tomi Ahonen and Dean Bubley give their views and you will also read posts on  mobile business models, mobile advertising and marketing, mobile Learning, [...]

New report from Tomi Ahonen details mobile stats in 2008

World renowned mobile commentator, Tomi Ahonen has just sent me a new report titled 7th Mass Media in 2008 which complements his recent book “Mobile as 7th of the Mass Media” and looks at the size of the mobile industry in 2008. I had the pleasure of meeting Tomi at the Future of Mobile conference [...]

Mobile Industry Thought Leaders New Initiative Launched

I am Immensely proud to be associated with this new phase of Jonathan MacDonald’s “yes we can” change program for mobile advertising.  Full details below. Mobile Industry Thought Leaders Launch Mobile Advertising Information Resource EverySingleOneOfUs unites brands, carriers, publishers, associations and industry experts to identify solutions and best practices that facilitate positive change in the [...]

Tomi Ahonen’s new book Mobile as 7th of the Mass Media released

I’ve been a big fan of Tomi Ahonen’s writing and approach for a while now, and so I am excited that his new book, Mobile as 7th of the Mass Media has just been released.  You can download a 30 page extract of the first chapter, or do what I have done, pre-order the bookat [...]

The ALDI effect and how it will benefit mobile advertising

Much has been written in UK newspapers about the “Aldi effect” – as consumers tighten their belts due to the global credit crunch and tougher domestic conditions in the UK and switch to lower cost retailers to save money. Traditional retailers such as Tesco are acutely aware of this phenomenon and are plotting to counter the [...]

Tomi T Ahonen on permission based and targeted mobile advertising

Jonathan Macdonald recently pointed me to a brilliant post by on permission based advertising by Tomi T Ahonen – someone well respected in this space for among other things his communities dominate brands blog. In Tomi’s posted titled Permission Based is not enough: Understanding mobile advertising from March 20 this year, he argues eloquently that [...]