When Amazon kicked off the month by taking the wraps off its Amazon Mobile Payments Service, or MPS (a technology that includes a set of APIs allowing mobile developers to provide payment options to their customers within mobile websites and mobile applications), it introduced more than just another way for people to pay for stuff using their phone; it set a usability benchmark that more established players, particularly mobile operators, could find hard to beat....
That’s my line-up for the next days as I prepare to speak on mobile search and mobile SEO at Mobile Content, an event organized by IIR Ltd., and move into the homestretch of the Netsize Guide – an extensive mobile industry almanac featuring 25+ exclusive C-Level interviews with industry movers and shakers (think Google, Nokia [...]...
November 12, 2008
This explains some of the radio silence at ChangingWorlds and why Barry Smyth, ChangingWorlds Chief Scientist, sought me out at the recent recommender conference Recsys 2008 to demo his new and super-cool social search app. I can’t give too much away now, but let’s just say search (like advertising) is fast becoming content and [...]...
November 6, 2008
I avoid using the term “mobile guru” to describe myself. (A Philosophy of Science degree has made me humble. “True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”-Socrates )
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However, I am deeply honored that Bango thinks of me as such: communicated in their press releases, corporate messaging and on the cover [...]...
October 14, 2008
As regular readers might recall, bnetTV and MSearchGroove joined up during CTIA to produce a hard-hitting series of interviews focusing on the mobile trends and mobile companies that matter. To provide you the proper context in which to understand and appreciate these companies and their impact on the mobile space, I have also signed on [...]...
October 7, 2008
Tegic, the company which invented predictive text and helped to drive the $40 billion a year text message industry in the process, is now eyeing mobile music and believes it has the answer to the frustrations of song searching on handsets.
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April 5, 2007
