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Entries from July 2006

Video Portals (Interesting Mobile Company #1)

July 31st, 2006 · No Comments

Voxsurf are an interesting company with a neat 3G video portal solution. You can dial a number with a mobile and watch video content, but because it’s a video call you can also leave a video message. This allows many interesting services, such as participative TV where viewers can leave opinions or just deposit their […]

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100 ideas…

July 31st, 2006 · No Comments

As of my last post, I finally reached 100 ideas on my blog. It will take me a while to edit them nicely into a PDF and add my comments, but as soon as it’s done I’ll post the finished item on the blog: most of the ideas are still current. Meanwhile, I’m not sure […]

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Rap battling via PTT (idea #100)

July 9th, 2006 · No Comments

Once upon a time I designed a mobile game for an urban culture company in London. The concept was to allow users to challenge each other to “rap battles”, which are where contestants ad-lib a rap song, taking turns to outwit the opponent with stinging lyrics (watch the DVD extras on 8 Mile if you […]

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Faster mobile menus (idea #99)

July 8th, 2006 · No Comments

I’ve always been a fan of the innovative mobile keyboard “Fastap” from Digit Wireless. It uses essentially two “layers” of keys and “non keys” to achieve a high density keypad, one key per character, in the same space as a traditional numeric pad. This allows faster text entry. Digit Wireless have claimed that data revenues […]

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