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App Store – the new black?
In the aftermath of MWC and the build up to CTIA you would certainly think App Stores are the new black. Apple set off this me-too avalanche of announcements. After Apples app store we have seen Blackberry app world , Android Market, Microsoft\’s Marketplace and Nokia\’s Ovi etc. Will this be a game changer? Maybe. [...]
Note to self: user, user & user
The starting point for developing a mobile service starts in the same place. Everytime. The User. Period. It is obvious and common sense. Not in the mobile industry though. I am glad to see there was a “whistleblower” in action at MWC09 the other week. Steve Bell ex-Motorola is pretty bold but right in his [...]
Media exec note to self on strategy: mobile mobile and mobile
Mobile World Congress is in the midst of its third day. Is the Ericsson party tonight? What deal had that guy from Newbay say he had done last night in the bar? Is there a place to get foot massage nearby? I am sure the questions are many as the mega-over-the-top-exhibition-fatigue sets in. In that environment [...]
Are mobile operators becoming irrelevant?
I don’t know about you, but in my quest to develop new services and revenue streams I spend amazingly little time talking with mobile operators these days. I say amazingly since I thought I would spend more time with them, since they are such an essential part of the ecosystem. I see that as a [...]
10 reasons why you should _not_ go to MWC'09
It’s that time of the year again – Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The marketing machinery from the various stakeholders is in over-drive. I let this list from Juniper Research serve as an example of this as well as a response to why I am not going and why many should consider how they spend [...]
SIME08 – the soundbites
One can almost call SIME the conference that keeps on giving. Here is another post related to SIME. Now more than 10 days ago. I have been busy with my dayjob so this will be the post I had planned as the last one from SIME. I do this today and next week I will [...]
SIME08 – hype buster no 1: Mobile advertising is dead!
The sessions with Eva Berg Winters, industry expert at PwC and Andrew Bradford of Platform-A were quite deceiving for someone who is not in the trenches day to day with mobile advertising. If you projected what was said about online marketing to the mobile world you would be very wrong and risking your business. Below [...]
SIME08 – Joi Ito missing the point but making one anyway
It was with great excitement I was going to listen to Joi Ito live for the first time. Unfortunately his presentation did not do justice to his message about creative commons. It turned into a history lesson we did not need. In the mobile world creative commons thinking is a huge driver for growth. Content [...]
SIME08 take two – cool people and stuff and some mobile business modelling on top.
Firstly, qudos to Morten Lund for his introduction that was short and brief and a kick in the butt on all of us. It helped to shake off the doom and gloom feelings triggered not only by the damp November weather but of course of the financial meltdown and the global recession that just knocked [...]
SIME08 – take one, the summary
Sitting down starting to digest all the impressions from two intense days at Scandinavian Interactive Media Event, SIME08, in Stockholm. In a few posts going forward I will share the event but through the lens of a mobile web entrepreneur. There was little direct talk about mobile since the theme was really digital communication and [...]
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- Interesting advances in impact investing. More on Hub Ventures http://t.co/YSq4xe0C
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