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Tag Archives: Mobile
Mobile Marketing Frontiers
I am thrilled about the speaker line-up for the FutureM Mobile Marketing Frontiers event Shopximity has organized. It’s tomorrow, Wed 9/14/2011, 8am – noon at Microsoft’s NERD center (One Memorial Drive in Cambridge). For more info, check out the event … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Media, Mobile, Shopximity
Tagged Advertising, Events, FutureM, marketing, Mobile, Shopximity
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iPhone economics, startup economics, angel investing economics
Tomi Ahonen has collected a lot of good data about the iPhone app ecosystem and applies solid analysis to reach the conclusion that, from an economic standpoint, on average, it is a waste of developers’ time to build iPhone apps. … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, iPhone, Mobile, startups
Tagged angel investing, angel returns, Apple, Apple AppStore economics, AppStore economics, iPhone, Mobile, startup economics, startups
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Mobile advertising got more (less?) competitive
Google just nabbed AdMob for a handy $750M. Congrats to AdMob founder Omar Hamoui who got into the space early and executed very aggressively. More details on the acqusition here. The background story here is of the explosion in mobile … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Google, Mobile
Tagged AdMob, Advertising, Google, Industry News, Mobile, mobile advertising, Nexage, Omar Hamoui
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Don’t Ignore The Least Common Denominator
Good post by Fred Wilson on the ubiquity and ease-of-use of SMS messaging: Don’t Ignore The Least Common Denominator. Two points worth adding: SMS is completely portable across the world, which is particularly important in developing countries where the majority … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile, startups
Tagged least common denominator, Mobile, SMS, startups, text messaging
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Even Opt-In is Not Safe
mocoNews continues the coverage of the FTC complaint by consumer privacy groups against the mobile industry. But where consumer groups see a threat to privacy, companies see a user experience they claim can be managed by giving the consumer the … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Mobile
Tagged Advertising, behavioral targeting, Mobile, mobile advertising, Phorm, privacy, privacy policy
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Flash vs. AJAX is The Wrong Question
Following my post on the Flex 3 and AIR launch, a number of you have pinged me privately about the Flash vs. AJAX question. It goes something like this: “I know you are going to write that you prefer Flash/Flex because … Continue reading
Posted in Adobe, Flex, Mobile, Web 2.0
Tagged Adobe, Adobe AIR, Adobe Flex, AJAX, Enterprise 2.0, Flex, Macromedia Flash, Mobile, Mobile Web 2.0, Web 2.0
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Walt Mossberg and Verizon’s Move to Open Its Network
I’m listening to Walt Mossberg speak at the Dow Jones Consumer Innovations conference. He began by pointing out that Verizon didn’t give him any credit when they announced the opening of the Verizon network. This is a huge deal, by … Continue reading
Can Walt Mossberg Change The World?
I sure hope so. Well timed for CTIA is his Free My Phone blog post on the mobile space. Walt wishes for an opening of the US mobile industry. That’s why I refer to the big cellphone carriers as the … Continue reading
Steve Jobs: Apple iPhone Opens Up
Here is another great example of a company trying to walk the fine line between an open and a closed value chain ecosystem. From a Steve Jobs letter: Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on … Continue reading