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Mark Rolston Thinking Beyond the Handset #eComm

October 28, 2009

Mark Rolston – Chief Creative Officer, FrogDesign. Thinking Beyond the Handset. 1. The first phone phenomena. The handset has gone from being a device to a window to a software and network experience. The object has lost it’s functional identity. So it can now be anything you want it to be. So now you can [...]

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Morten Hjerde – Mobile as a TOOL! Vodafone #ecomm

October 28, 2009

Morten Hjerde is User Experience Manager at Vodafone Group. He talks of a paradigm shift in how users are changing how they think about their phone. How people generally think about their devices? Shows a picture of a bed. It looks like a bed. How is it we can all recognize this as a bed. [...]

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Jame Enck – On the Good News (Reality Check) #ecomm

October 28, 2009

James Enck. What are the main themes over the next 30 to 40 years? The Bad News: Today we have stressed national budgets, traumatized consumers. High corporate dept rates, and the recovery rate is 1/2 the historical average. (Glad there is some realism here!) The recovery is about doing things differently. The future will not [...]

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Mobile Learning and the Classroom

July 20, 2009

I was hanging out at Fort Mason getting my first look at kids working on their documentary projects. It took me two days to understand the deeper meaning around this project and the Mobile Learning Institute. This post serves as my first impressions. I’m watching middle school kids (11 to 14) working on scripts. They [...]

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America Needs a New Approach to SMS – Learning from India

February 5, 2009

Indian rates for SMS are now at 8 paise. 100 paise to the Rupee. about 47 rupees to the dollar. So $.003 per SMS locally in India today. Guess what, use is exploding! That doesn’t compare very well with the US where we are paying a posted rate of 20 cents per SMS. Now I [...]

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Is iPhone Lust Global?

May 15, 2008

While recently in India, Dina and I explored the iPhone factor. We saw it in the wild (eg. people using them) and talked to 18 to 24 year old leading-edge mobile users in Mumbai. We were both left a little shocked! While focus groups aren’t statistical research and Mumbai is hardly an Apple stronghold; the [...]

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Repairs, Tweaks and Choice – Mobile Phones

May 9, 2008

18 months ago I bought my daughter a Nokia n73 in India as a birthday present. At the time it was about the coolest phone I could get for her with a 3mpx auto focus camera etc. She’s a torture test user. The first keyboard lasted one year before the whole joystick and keypad underpinnings [...]

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