Genuine VC on: Discovery vs. Consumption
David has an excellent rumination (with good comments) on what happens when we shift to digital media, where all the other stuff normally associated with media ...
Category: Strategy
A physical to virtual connection for a mobile device (GPS) game
I will soon be getting a nifty tiny GPS receiver to hook up via Bluetooth to my phone. I’m going to be doing some deep testing and reviewing of an app (an...
The magnitude of things: What it means to make things in the millions
I was in a meeting recently and we were talking about the number of people with Nokia phones, the number of Nokia phones sold a year, and other large numbers as...
feegorifero on: Self archeology (and the mobile value chain)
Fabio Sergio has a great brainwave on operators, ‘who will establish a privileged relationship with the customer’, and the ‘ecology of value&#...
Subversive devices
We were having a meeting and started joking about the way some folks use their phones in subversive or deviant ways. A neat subversive device would make it easy...
Read/Write Web on: Personal and microcontent aggregators
One thing that has been dear to me is how to bring together, on our mobile, our whole Web experience that we are used to through the large-screen PC-based brows...
S60 User Experience on: W3C mobile Web content best practices
Can’t hurt. But, don’t get me going on .mobi. Link: S60 User Experience. W3C published a couple of months ago a set of best practices on how to impr...
A potentially disruptive thought
Risto Koski, a colleague from Nokia, and I were having a deep discussion when he naturally suggested that why bother making phones with both WiFi and cellular c...
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...
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...