Reams have been written about the impact of the Apple iPhone on content production and content creation. Yes, we should be excited about the avalanche of apps and content, but we must also cope with the hard reality that one Web presence may not be enough. In fact, it may be that we are witnessing the emergence of a new...
February 22, 2010
Tags: AdMob, app store, Apple, Flirtomatics, Google, JumpTap, Mobile Advertising, mobile analytics, Mobile Internet, Mobile Marketing, Mobile SEO, Nuance, Somo, Splinternet, Taptu, Tomi Ahonen, Vodafone, WAP Review
Posted in Content Discovery, Data Points, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Content, Mobile Research, Multimodal Search, Usability, Web 2.0 | 8 Comments »
A quick roundup of M-Days insights and highlights. Companies mentioned include: Ahead of Time, Rubberduck Media Labs, Service2Media, Out There Media, Fishlab Entertainment, Southend United Football Club, Fjord, Farm Town, Exbiblio, Gedda-Headz, Lufthansa and Velti.
I'm back and settled from M-Days in...
February 1, 2010
Tags: Ahead of Time, Exbiblio, Farm Town, Fishlab Entertainment, Fjord, Gedda-Headz, Lufthansa, Out There Media, Rubberduck Media Labs, Service2Media, Southend United Football Club, Velti
Posted in Content Discovery, Data Points, Location-based services, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Content, Mobile Research, Mobile Search, Mobile Social Networking, Personalization, Recommendation, Usability, Web 2.0 | 3 Comments »
As promised in my earlier post, I'm back with a sneak peek at the controversial findings of the Mobile Trends Survey 2010, conducted by Netsize, a Gemalto company and leading mobile communications and commerce enabler. Drawing from an online survey of over 1,000+ mobile professionals and practitioners, the survey found that the vast majority (87 percent) of respondents believe the Apple App Store will be the most successful app store in the mobile space.
Google's Android Market is a distant second (60 percent), followed by Nokia's Ovi Store (30 percent) and RIM's BlackBerry App World (27 percent). Respondents could choose more than one answer - which is why the total exceeds 100 percent....
In brief: Recounting my briefing in London with Amdocs prior to the CES 8 launch, the results of a recent service provider survey and the wider implications of both as operators move from selling access to selling value.
What happens when the Internet of Things – trillions of devices,...
January 25, 2010
Tags: amdocs, app store, behavioral targeting, changingworlds, Connected World, Google, Mobile Advertising, mobile analytics, mobile commerce, mobile CRM, Mobile Marketing, Personalization, ReadWriteWeb, Recommendation, targeting
Posted in Content Discovery, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Research, Personalization, Recommendation, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Editor's note: A range of content discovery issues continue to plague mobile operators and content companies on-portal. Add the explosion of content off-portal and the advance of applications stores and finding (and buying) what we like can be like looking for a proverbial needle in hay stack....
December 17, 2009
Tags: app store, Apps, Mobile Internet, Mobile Search, Personalization, Qualcomm, Recommendation, recommenders, targeting, Xiam
Posted in Content Discovery, Mobile Content, Mobile Research, Mobile Search, Personalization, Recommendation | 2 Comments »
"It’s all about apps!" That is the message that has come through in dozens of recent briefings and interviews (many of which will be include in the chapter I am writing about app store business models for the...
December 9, 2009
Tags: Android, app store, Apple, Bada, BlackBerry, changingworlds, convergence, developers, DN Capital, Google, iPhone, Java, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Internet, Orange, podcast, Recommendation, Samsung, Symbina, vertical apps, VisionMobile, Windows Mobile
Posted in Content Discovery, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Research, Netsize Guide, Personalization, Podcasts, Recommendation | 1 Comment »
