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 [...]

Are iPhone users the worst target for mobile advertising?

We hear mobile internet is growing fast. We hear iPhone users are driving this. Mobile advertising is another area where numbers for iPhone are huge, or so every one says. Hold it. Enter new studies.  Wireless week just wrote about a new study by Chitika, a US-based online advertsing firm, points to really low CTR, [...]

Apple stepping over to the Dark Side?

During recent days there has been much said about Apple’s weird decision to not launch Google Voice for iPhone. Comments and reactions can be read here and here. Even the FCC has raised an inquiry into this sending Apple a letter with six questions. Read about it here.
Apple used to be the User’s White Knight. [...]

Apple time!

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One way to optimise mobile advertising

Once in a while you come across something good. When that happens you want to share it. Many companies are new to the role of publisher in a mobile advertising setting. Serving ads from multiple networks, integrating to platforms and optimising the ad serving can quickly suck up a lot of time and resources.Well, there [...]

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. [...]

Selling mobile apps in the 21st century

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Had some time over the holidays to walk through the AppStore with my iPhone. Found a few gems. This is not a “best iPhone apps of the year” post though.
My point is how smooth and easy the entire discovery and purchase experience is. There is second to none of all other channels for [...]

2009 what-ifs

I do not find it very useful to extrapolate trends into the new year and making more or less safe bets about what will happen. I am not saying they are bad. A few good ones are found at Mobhappy and MEF.
For my own businesses though I find it much more useful to run a [...]

Required reading for all developers!

First of all a correction, it is supposedly 100 m downloads now at the AppStore. I finally got time to check out the facts from the latest Apple hoopla. So 100 m downloads in 60 days. Pretty strong. But my follow-up questions on who really makes money there and what the future brings are still [...]

What did your phone do for you this summer?

Summer has been good to you I hope. I can’t complain at all. The good thing was to be a more normal/consumer user of my mobile. Not just testing our own apps. I spent the summer with my iPhone and a Nokia E51.
So what great moments did mobile services give me? Google maps on the [...]