Regular readers will know that a high point of my year is collaborating with the Netsize team to collect the information, ideas and insights from industry authorities and +25 c-level execs that make the Netsize Guide the industry's number one reference work. This year is no exception. To the contrary, I'm proud to report the Netsize Guide 2010 – the 9th Edition of the Netsize almanac– is widely regarded as the be...
February 23, 2010
Tags: AR, augmented reality, Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft, comScore, Dray & Associates, education, Emfinders, Evernote, Flirtomatic, GeoVector, GetJar, Havas Digital Mobile, healthcare, Informa Telecoms & Media, Innopay, Internet Advertising Bureau, Layar, Marks & Spencers, Memodia, mobile commerce, Mobile Entertainment Forum, Mobile Marketing Association, NearbyNow, Netsize, Netsize Guide 2010, Nokia NAVTEQ, PayPal Mobile, retail, Scanbuy, SFR, Sony Ericsson, Sony Music Entertainment, themedicieffect, UGC, Universal McCann, VisionMobile
Posted in Data Points, Featured, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Content, Mobile Research, Netsize Guide, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
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 »
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....
In brief: An analysis on mobile search strengths and shortcomings based on some eye-opening usage stats presented at the recent Mobile Search Masterclass; a summary of key findings from MSG's own mobile voice search white paper (examining how Google stacks up against ChaCha and Vlingo using Yahoo as the default search engine); and the business case for a new breed of mobile search tools (ranging from social search to...
July 28, 2009
Tags: Alabot, app store, ChaCha, CPM, CTRs, Google, Internet Advertising Bureau, iPhone, Location-based services, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Advertising U.K., mobile commerce, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Search, Mobile Search Masterclass, Mobile SEO, Mobile Social Networks, PricewaterhouseCoopers, RingRing Media, Shazam, social search, Taptu, The Sun, Virgin Media, Vlingo, Voice Search, white paper, Yahoo
Posted in Content Discovery, Local Search, Location-based services, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Research, Mobile Search, Mobile Social Networking | 8 Comments »
MSG is proud to have deep ties with AltSearchEngines (ASE), a destination synonymous with news and quality analysis on all things related to alternative search engines (defined as all search engines other than Google), and a deep friendship with Charles Knight, ASE publisher and the "Voice of Alternative Search" (as he is regarded by a growing community of professionals and practitioners passionate about search). So,...
April 6, 2009
Tags: 23half Inc, abphone, Alternative Search Engines, Bernstein Research, Faroo, iPhone, Kosmix, Mahalo, mobile commerce, Mobile Search, Slifter, T-Mobile, Taptu, Thrrum MMS Search, TinEye Mobile, Truveo, Verizon, Yahoo
Posted in Content Discovery, Local Search, Mobile Content, Mobile Music, Mobile Research, Mobile Search, Personalization, Usability | 1 Comment »
Wrapping up an exciting mobile search white paper project this week with Peggy Albright, founder of Albright Research and MSG research associate. We can't give away too much before the formal launch next week, but the research - which evaluates Google, Vlingo (Yahoo) and ChaCha - has also drawn our attention to social search, the Achilles heel of universal search engines Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. (In fact, a comp...
March 5, 2009
Tags: abphone, ChaCha, Google. Microsoft, Long Tail, Mahalo, mobile commerce, Mobile Internet, Mobile Search, Recommendation, social search, Taptu, Wikia, Yahoo
Posted in Content Discovery, Mobile Research, Mobile Search, Mobile Social Networking, Personalization | 3 Comments »
