WINKsite: fusing the mobile and Web worlds through barcodes
You all know my fascination with WINKsite, a really versatile service for building mobile Web sites that fits into the mobile lifestyle. It’s simple, easy...
Category: The Narrative
Rudy’s Women in Mobile 09 – Amy Jo Kim
Rudy has a great series of interviews of Women in Mobile. The latest is of Amy Jo Kim, a renowned game designer. Go read it. Link: m-trends.org: Women in Mobile...
Tomi Ahonen on: What happens when majority access web via mobile phone
Tomi has a good take on some recent data from Ipsos Research. Very much in line with what I have been saying here (eh, a few points rub me the wrong way, but th...
The Economist on: The magnificent seven to end African poverty
I just read an article (quote below) on the UN’s Millennium Project. It’s a no-nonsense take on the simple things that can help people in developing...
Observation for the weekend – the real effect of phone subsidies
I think most of us who complain about the operators and their subsidies might really have a blindspot. We are looking from the vantage point of power users who ...
Why has everyone written a book? A call for action.
The back storyI listen to a set of talks and interviews that feed the part of me that is not a mobile geek: The Long Now Seminars, Ira Flatow’s Science Fr...
Have you ever noticed what your writing topics are?
What’s great about having your own website is that you end up after a while with a long list of things you have written about that in the end interest you someh...
New fasion magazine – online and downloadable for mobile phones
Posing (l to r): Tuomas (photographer, extraordinaire), Toni (publisher, Brand magazine), Anina, and Reidar (marketing dude, Samsung) I got an unexpected call y...
Fabio Sergio on: The interstitial-ity, the dangerously engaging chaotic messiness of it all.
Fabio Sergio shares with us a great photo that exemplifies context and the mobile lifestyle. Go look and read his take on it. Link: f r e e g o r i f e r o | we...
Resistance is futile. The Web will be mobile.
Check out these stats that Russ was chewing on (links below). The quote below has a blunt summary of the analysis. We all knew this. Now we can throw some analy...