Don’t remember where I got this from, but it’s a straightforward analysis of something folks are starting to learn – it’s the collaborative effect and not the number of people involved that is the power of the Web today.
Link: Bubblegeneration – Evil Corporations Only.
your utility is bounded by the number of things (transactions, etc) you can do on the network
Link: Joho the Blog: Hossein Eslamabolchi on the future of the network.
State of the telecom industry: Coming out of a period of: Overcapacity, fraud, regulatory uncertainty, pricing pressure, brankruptices, competitive technologies. In late 2001, AT&T faced a "perfect storm" or "nuclear winter."
I’m not surprised.
Link: MobHappy: Just 17% of UK Subs Do More Than Talk and Text.
160 Characters posts the results of a survey that found just 17% of UK mobile phone owners use their devices for anything other than texting and calling — on a daily basis. Somehow that’s not as surprising as the headline made it out to be. In any case, the company behind the survey says "although the services may be clearly explained in accompanying manuals, users often do not understand the purpose of additional services and therefore do not feel any need to learn how to use them."
Big news of the week.
Link: GSM World News. Press Release 2005 – Worldwide cellular connections exceeds 2 billion.
The global mobile industry will reach a major landmark this weekend, when the number of subscriber connections will exceed 2 billion on September 18, according to estimates from Wireless Intelligence – the venture between Ovum and the GSM Association.
… that is really small, like a headset. And this is well thought out.
Yeah, I’ve seen these concepts a few times. Only thing, I think the tech and supporting software is finally getting to the point where we can actually build something like this. Hmm… what about like a Star Trek communicator badge?
Good to see the old Russ is still around and thinking (publicly). 😉
Link: Russell Beattie Notebook � Imagine A Voice Powered Mobile Phone….
This would be a pretty cool device, no? It’d be like the iPod Shuffle of mobile phones – as simple as it gets. In fact, that’s a cool idea! Imagine if instead of sitting on just one ear, you could attach another head phone to make a pair. Now you can listen to your music from home being streamed to your phone via a system like Orb.com, or use a system like Sprint’s new Sirius or Rhapsody streaming audio.
Link: the mobile experience � Blog Archive � Browsing, transcoding and intelligent proxies.
What to optimize?
Now, I haven’t give this a lot of though, but here’s my list off content types that can be optimized, and operations that can be performed on them (in order of difficulty)
Precisely what I want to be solving.
Link: the mobile experience � Blog Archive � Web 2.0 and mobility.
It is this convergence that will be the ultimate trial for the business plans of todays carriers and mobile content&service providers.
Anina’s 360 Fashion is getting hotter.
Link: 360 Fashion.
Check out some comments from Marc Canter. He also has the annoucement of the event on 03 October in Paris (I can’t find my copy). Unfortuntely, I have to miss it. To be involved for so long and then miss one of her big events. Dang!
Freaky.
Link: Nokia – Press Nokia – Press Release 20.9.2005 – Press.
Earlier this summer, Nokia sold our one billionth mobile phone – a Nokia 1100 sold in Nigeria," says Kai �ist�m�, Senior Vice President, Mobile Phones, Nokia.
The HMS Goo (goo)
Originally uploaded by schickr.