Location Is The Missing Link Between Social Networks And The Real World

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This is and old post from November last year, but still to the point. The key take away is as great as it is simple. Location is the bridge from social networking to real social activity. With location added in a smart way social networks, games and other apps will reach their full [...]

AT&T chief: Industry moving toward usage-based pricing – FierceWireless

Check out this website I found at fiercewireless.com
Carrier CEOs voicing usage-based pricing are abundant these days. Implemented the wrong way with a very linear model this could be a serious spanner in the works for the mobile internet. Flat rate data was a main driver to make it take off in the first [...]

The 99 Percent – It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.

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Stumbled upon this site and have spent some time on it already. Great to find one source on how to get stuff done and be creative. Great tool to beat procrastination into oblivion. Unless you spend too much time on the site though. Don’t miss Seth Godin’s video on the Lizard Brain or [...]

Keep on giving!

As you might have seen already we are members of 1% for the planet. This means that we donate 1% of our top line revenue to organisations that work for a better environment and society. 1% for the planet was founded by Yvon Choinard, the founder of Patagonia. We are very happy today since have [...]

Apps and open

From Barcelona, nothing new. Seems like the keywords this year was open and apps. Mixed with some paranoid attacks on Google and Yahoo for their strong position in search advertising.
Well, most efficient markets are developed when companies can focus on their area of expertise and compete on fair terms. Search was never the reason mobile [...]

Bravo! Foursquare Snags a TV Partnership

Foursquare’s new frontier isn’t just newspapers, but media companies as a whole. Case in point: Bravo and Foursquare have entered into a must-see TV relationship integrating show personalities and their city tips, as well as a Bravo badges, into the game experience.

The New York Times Bits blog reports that the partnership officially premieres tomorrow, with [...]

Mobile broadband: When is it profitable? – FierceWireless

Mobile data plans have started to evolve. U.S. mobile operators, under pressure from exploding traffic volume in their networks and grappling with network congestion, have recently announced new service pricing for voice and data.
Though it is still unclear what the net effect of the new pricing will be on subscribers, the new plans set an [...]

Predictions for 2010 part 3: Mobile advertising needs to grow up or ship out!

After the prior post with the free mobile marketing concept, time has come to mobile advertising. At the moment it is delicate situation for banner advertising: Advertisers are being fleeced and publishers are not making enough money. That does not sound like a very good setup does it? I guess ad networks with good sales force [...]

2010 prediction part 2: Retail will save mobile marketing. Warning: Free business idea included!

Retail has to look beyond coupons
Yes, we have heard it before: the mobile device is a personal portable billboard! But it is more than that. It’s a dialogue tool. It is not only the bearer of a digital coupon. It would be a shame to reduce the mobile to a direct response medil channel only. [...]

2010 predictions part 1: Dating and gaming takes the BS out of LBS

Better late than never. It seems that companies these days manage better and better to commercialize LBS by packaging it into services that are of good use. One particular area, or functionality rather, is location awareness. It happens in the background and is an integrated piece of the service. Foursquare use it in their game [...]