Dear friends and colleagues including Ajit Jaokar (mobile authority and blogger at Open Gardens) and Mack McKelvey (Senior Vice President of Marketing, Millennial Media) have tweeted and
February 24, 2010
It's been a busy and exciting time, and the end-product makes it all worth it. The Netsize Guide – the comprehensive mobile industry analysis I have been commissioned to write for the third consecutive year – is finally at the printers. The Guide will be distributed at a special launch party during Mobile World Congress and posted for free download on MSG and other Netsize partner sites on February 17th, so mark the date!
Once again, we recount the key milestones that impacted the mobile industry in 2009, such as the emergence of app stores, the advance of 2D bar codes and the evolution of mobile marketing. But we didn't
January 18, 2010
In brief: We have hard words and constructive advice for Nokia, hone in on what makes Flirtomatic a textbook case of how companies should approach mobile and discuss this year's deal flow. A preview of the upcoming podcast series looking at winners of the Smaato Mobile Advertising Awards 2009 (Flirtomatic, Aloqua, Waze, Yoose and SPBTV). We also raise our goblets of Rock to companies (rather than individuals) making mobile exciting: Spanish games start-up LemonQuest and the line-up of cool companies in Augmented Reality (specifically, GeoVector and Layar) and visual recognition (Kooaba).
Mobile Groove -- the monthly podcast I produce with Inma Martinez, leading digital media strategist, "free radical" and advisor to venture capitalists -- is back. This time we kick off with a hard look at Nokia strategy and question the wisdom of its decision to sue Apple. November 2, 2009
