We are a step closer to being able to view remotely anything on the planet. OK, I exaggerate about anything on the planet. But, adding to the eyeball tendrils of web-cam world is the ability to visualize addresses in a directory. Amazon’s interesting search engine - A9.com - adds photos to addresses in the Yellow […]

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How dare you use a mobile to do this - go find a PC!

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SmallPlanet sent me an email to say that the latest version of CrowdSurfer mobile phone software is available for download through the SmallPlanet.net Web site. CrowdSurfer turns your Bluetooth enabled mobile phone into a radar device for finding friends and meeting new people.
The guys from SmallPlanet say: “for any geeks out there like us, it’s […]

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My last post about “mobile money” made me think about the whole process of mobiles and currency.
Have any operators thought about letting users exchange or sell minutes from one phone to another? It must be quite common to find a group of friends on pre-pay packages and one of them runs out of credit and […]

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There’s always talk of mobile money - “digital wallets on the mobile”. But, as my CFO friend at a major operator remarked, who’s going to upgrade their EPOS systems so that people can buy things with their mobiles? What’s the business case?
I wonder if the chip-and-pin recepticles being deployed in most stores allow a card […]

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I was checking “Wireless Wonders” in the search engines to see if my new blog was indexed. No luck yet. However, I did find that GNER trains in the UK now offer onboard WiFi coverage on their 80 Mallard trains. They call it “Wireless Wonders“. What else?
To maintain constant coverage, they have two GSM receivers […]

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Everyone who knows of Tom Peters usually knows a quote from his work. The killer quote for 2005 is probably going to be “Blog as if your life depended on it” to be found, where else, but on Tom’s blog.
The buzz this week is the Blog Business Summit, in part because Tom’s blog is giving […]

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Last year, on my old blog, I posted an article about the usefulness of cookies to track consumer behaviour, and more potently, extending this tracking information into the location-sensitive mobile world. I promised an update…
The proposal is simple. We need all major brands, shops and so on to post their latest offers and essential product […]

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Crossing the Chasm is a widely-read marketing book by Geoffrey A. Moore that focuses on the specifics of marketing high tech products.
One of the ways to ensure that a product does cross the chasm from early adoption to stardom success is to deploy “whole product design”. In essence, this means designing something that really does […]

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“Entering a url into your WAP address bar can be tedious…”
Source: T-Mobile website 2004
Thank you T-Mobile for this advice.
And the solution?
“…..use bookmarks..” Source: T-Mobile website 2004
Hands up if you can easily add a bookmark from your average mobile browser.

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John Battelle’s Searchblog: Sell Side Advertising: A New Model?
The above article by John Battelle might have relevance to the future of mobile. The essence of sell-side advertising is that advertisers put up their ads into cyberspace and someone - anyone - can take it and display it on their site. If they get some clicks, […]

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Those of you who followed my earlier work on Spatial Messaging (”Air Graffiti”) will know of my deep interest in connecting the virtual with the physical via mobile.
I was absolutely enthralled to find John Geraci’s Grafedia….WOW!

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This is my new blog for now.
My old one didn’t allow for searching, which is a huge limitation. I could probably have fixed that somehow, but I don’t have time. I want something that works “out of the box”.
I am writing a book called “Bluejacking and Other Wireless Wonders” (working title), so that’s where I […]

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