At Telco 2.0 , day 3, one of the rumours I picked up in the back channel was a growing acceptance for the idea of offering content providers the opportunity to pay for mobile distribution costs. This came from one of the leading players in premium SMS networks. I’ve blogged about this idea before, most […]

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I spent Day 2 in the “Digital Youth” session, chaired by the effervescent Tomi Ahonen, the most enthusiastic mobilist on the planet. Tomi is almost as ubiquitous as a mobile phone and this time he had no need to glorify Habbo Hotel. Their UK manager was there in the flesh.
Yesterday I mentioned how James […]

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I’m at day 2 of the TC2.0 brainstorm in London. Firstly, no free wifi, which seems completely dissonant with the TC2.0 “ride the future” message and rather irritating. Set-up is good - on each roundtable there’s a couple of terminals for sending questions, adding comments and completing polls. Lots of stimulating speakers and participants.
Now to […]

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On his blog, Ajit Jaoker argues that mobile widgets support the long tail (LT). I don’t agree, although Ajit doesn’t elaborate. The LT says that it’s equally easy to access any part of the distribution curve for any ranges of products. The classic is Amazon. They can sell books that are 1,299,999 on the list […]

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My firefox browser seems to be regularly dishing up a page that says “thanks for updating..” or some such blurb. It reminds me that my mobile never does this. In fact, my mobile is stuck with its browser as it is. The only exception is my Blackberry, which I have updated now and again. I […]

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I have a neat mobile TV demo on my phone. It works over standard 3G. However, many networks don’t allow video streaming from a service outside of the operator’s domain. Capacity is an issue. It doesn’t take that many concurrent video users in a 3G cell to max out the cell’s capacity. The usual story […]

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We’re getting used to putting our cards into PIN readers in shops. We gaze down, check the total and then enter our pin. That gazing bit is a great “eyeball” opportunity. Why not put an ad there? I’m sure it’s coming. If I recall correctly, I saw something like this in a grocery store in […]

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