Following on from my previous post about the use of mobiles and NFC in the shopping process, I started to think about even better deal-making opportunities.
Having a mobile dialogue with the store allows for deal-making that was not previously possible. In any shop it is always possible to negotiate prices, but this is usually not […]

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The potential of Near-Field Communication (NFC) is very exciting indeed. A couple of nights ago when I walked into Sainsburys to do my weekly grocery shopping, I found myself yet again thinking about my mobile within the shopping experience.
Accessing product information in the shop still seems like a good idea to me. One of my […]

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I notice that Ebay (UK) has outsourced production and maintenance of their mobile site (Ebay Anywhere) to Volantis. Clearly, Volantis has the expertise and tools to run a mobile site, whereas Ebay presumably doesn’t.
What does that tell us about mobile site production? And what does it tell us about Berners-Lee’s comments that site designers […]

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What do we do from dawn to dusk? How do we spend our time? How does our mind work from one moment to the next? I suspect that we don’t ask these questions that often.
We have intentions and we have tasks that we have to do and tasks that we habitually do. But what does […]

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Perhaps your network is different, but mine - and others I have tried in the UK - don’t seem to want any calls to their helpdesk. This is evident from the fact that it is hard to locate the helpdesk number, even on their websites.
Why don’t they simply program it in the phone?
The number should […]

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Perhaps you have tried mobile google. You can try it via your regular browser. It’s instructive to search for your own site and then see how the Google transcoder copes with rendering to a mobile device.
Search results from mobile Google are ranked the same as standard searches. This is problematic because it would be better […]

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Personally, I don’t see the point - and I’m generally an optimist about most mobile services. Aside from a completely inappropriate service model, namely non-personalised, non-selective broadcast radio over a narrow-cast channel, the costs are prohibitive.
Flat-rate users will enjoy only a brief taste of a daft service. Be warned that NO operator is going to […]

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Following some recent research, I have a whole bunch of things to say about the topic of mobile websites, so I’ll be posting quite heavily on this topic in the coming weeks. My first posting is about testing on different devices….
Ouch! That’s a painful topic….
All mobile developers know about the grief of designing for lots […]

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My last posting shows my tag. I have taken the pseudonym “Blewtooth”, although it is not unique. However, tagging is territorial. I don’t know of any tagger with this name, so I’ve staked my claim on it, at least in my locale.
Why the interest in tagging? Apart from a long association with looking at quirky […]

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Watch out for it on a wall (real or virtual) near you!

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As promised, I would group ideas into 10 at a time and publish these standalone:

100 Mobile Ideas…21 to 30
100 Mobile Ideas…11 to 20
100 Mobile Ideas…1 to 10

Eventually I will compile all 100 into an e-book and add some commentary. This will include updates, reflections, reader comments and some technical notes on implementation issues. If […]

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I’ve mentioned this idea before, but not in my “100 ideas” compendium; that users should be able to trade texts, minutes and other “mobile-currencies”.
School kids would love it!
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As its fashionable to mention it, I thought I should talk about the Long Tail. Essentially, this observation is telling us is that some businesses can cater for lots of tiny market segments (even as small as one customer) and still make money. In fact, they make their money precisely by having so many segments.
The […]

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P Diddy’s announcement of “I am an MVNO” is not surprising, at least not to me. I have known of the power of his brand for some time. Somewhere in my pile of biz cards I have one for the European franchise manager for his clothing brand.
Meeting him got me involved with looking at “urban-culture […]

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Last night I watched the film Hostage, starring Bruce Willis. I enjoyed it! Perhaps its theme entered my sub-conscious. Today, I started thinking about panic buttons.
I think the other prompt was thinking about the word community, which got stuck in my head after reading lots of seemingly pedantic debate about what the word means. My […]

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