The explosion in app stores and off-portal browsing are changing all the rules, pushing content discovery (and the search for solutions to make finding stuff easier) to the top of the agenda. This came across in my own on-going research (dating back to 2005) and the industry-first report I wrote on the topic at the time, aptly titled Mobile Search & Content Discovery.
Back then content owners and mobile operat...
December 15, 2009
Tags: Content Discovery, discoverability, Recommendation, recommenders, Xiam
Posted in Featured, Mobile Research, Personalization, Recommendation | 1 Comment »
Author: Alfred DeRose | Tego Interactive
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....
Editor's note: Apple has the first-mover advantage, and its App Store sets the bar. The result is a buoyant market for apps and ample opportunity for fast-followers to (perhaps) do one better. Benjamin E. Jacobsen - Co-Founder of Mobspot, Inc., a company championing "Mobile App developers and App users on any platform," and a new author to MSG - gives his take on the size of the market and the prospects for other pla...
June 10, 2009
Tags: Android, app store, Apple, Content Discovery, Google, iPhone, Microsoft, Mobspot, Opera, Opera Mini, Palm Pre, RIM Windows, Skymarket, StaCounter
Posted in Content Discovery, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Research, Usability | 12 Comments »
A look at Fox Mobile's deal with Mobile Content Networks (MCN)to deploy vertical paid search programs across multiple markets worldwide PLUS MSG catches up with Fox Mobile CEO Mauro Montanaro to connect the dots in the company's ambitious mobile search, content discovery and recommendation strategies.
A major advantage to writing the Netsize Guide 2009 was the opportunity it provided me to connect with 34 C...
February 26, 2009
Tags: Content Discovery, Fox Mobile, Jamba, Jamster, MCN, Recommendation
Posted in Content Discovery, Mobile Content, Mobile Search, On-Device Portals, Personalization | No Comments »
The arrival of Android and the remarkable success of the iPhone have whet our appetite for mobile data services, but they don't solve the usability issues that prevent mobile data services from becoming a routine part of daily life for many mobile users.
Granted, the iPhone and G1 tackle a laundry list of usability issues. They have been instrumental in raising consumer awareness of the mobile Internet. But what a...
November 14, 2008
Tags: Content Discovery, G1, Google, iPhone, Mobile Internet, Personalization, widgets
Posted in Content Discovery, Mobile Content, On-Device Portals, Personalization, Usability, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments »
