Category: The Narrative
At the Mobile Monday Global Summit!
Mon 08.05.2006 09.25 Image (182)
Digicel Offers Cell Phone Service in Haiti
This is what things will be like as we bring on the next billion, from the emerging markets, over the next 18 months. Fercryingoutloud, they were lining up eage...
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...
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...