Tom Hume of Future Platforms is another of our friends and has been a long term fellow traveller on this path to the future of technology, telecoms, mobile and communities. Tom wrote a blog a few days ago about second…

I’ve just finished reading a brand new book by our friend Chetan Sharma, co-authored with Joe Herzog and Victor Melfi. Its entitled Mobile Advertising: Supercharge your brand in the exploding wireless market. (and I’d stay away from those explosive wireless…

I picked this up from a posting at the Silicon Investor discussion board by “Slacker 711″ (sorry, Slacker, I would have wanted to post a comment for you there as well, but as the site requires registration, was just too…

Well, this is an interesting development in the new Connected Age. How to buy your rival who is twice your size? Wait for them to stumble in understanding digital communities, then when their stock price tumbles to half what it…

I’m doing a day of catch-up work on email, blogs and also Linked In, Facebook and of course Forum Oxford. And those darn invitations at Linked In (and even worse, Facebook) are such a PAIN to manage. (I don’t mean…

Our very good friend David Cushman of Bauer (who bought up his employer Emap) is a prolific blogger in the digitally converging media space at Faster Future, one of our fave blogsites to read regularly. He wrote a White Paper…

I was thinking about that blog last week about the Moto-CEO, and the 20 changes that the blog outlined where each of the given changes in mobile telecoms was first observed and when that change arrived to American shores. My…

Spotted a nice story by Colin Crawford at his blog Colin’s Corner, about IDG’s move from being a print publisher to embracing the digital media - including mobile (he kindly links to our 7th Mass Media blog posting). Colin explains…

We have supported the Carnival of the Mobilists from the start and have even hosted it twice, and often recommend our readers and friends to read the Carnival for the weekly collection of the best blog postings about mobile telecoms….

We’ve been discussing mobile as the 7th Mass Media channel for a couple of years now, ever since I started to talk about it in 2005. Today there are many who love the concept and plenty has been written to…

Ha ha, found a nice website (thanks to Robin who left us a comment) hosted by Mippin, which predicts how long it will take for there being a mobile phone account for the total population of the planet (there is…

I mentioned earlier that the Economist issue of April 12-18, 2008, had a great special report on mobile telecoms. I promised to return to it. I’ll touch on some of my fave tidbits and give a bit of my commentary….

(To regular readers, if you want to really understand the Moto situation, you might want to go get a cup of coffee with this entry. This is one of the long postings, even by my standards ha-ha) So we have…

This is also some major news. Blyk announced last week that they had reached the 100,000 subscriber level in the UK. For those who do not read our blog regularly, Blyk is the radical UK youth-oriented mobile service provider, who…

For those keeping track of them “canaries” and Peak Oil, yes, its now six airlines gone bust during the month of April. EOS the all-business class Atlantic carrier went bust this past weekend. And for those who think there is…