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Mobility

Kelly Fitzsimmons – Why Voice Matters #ecomm

June 28, 2011

The keynote presentation to kick of the second day of eComm. Relevant Voice Platforms - Kelly Fitzsimmons, HarQen. Words generally paraphrased below. Presentation was much better than my notes! Clearly need her product! “Text provides the IQ but misses the EQ” Voice is really important. How many of you are on top of your communications? [...]

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iPad Usablity – User Testing

May 10, 2010

No real surprises in this first “report” on iPad usability. Still it is well worth the read. I’ve found and made many of the same observations. They have a 93 page report you can download at the end. There’s some good technical jargon and it certainly supports my general contention that the “publishing” media apps [...]

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#ARConf and #Ecomm – Surprisingly Interrelated

May 5, 2010

Finally I’m getting to my eComm posts and notes. On the third day, AR or Augmented Reality came to eComm America2010 in the form of ARConf. I know many of the telecom crowd didn’t stick around for day three and I feel they missed out big time. Almost 12 hours long, Lee Dryburgh and team pulled together a [...]

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Motorcycling with the iPad – Better than a laptop or notebook for certain

May 5, 2010

I’ve been quiet on my iPad observations. Fact is I’ve just been enjoying it. Perhaps so much that I’ve even overheated it. There is no question it is a powerful multi-media consumption device. I much prefer it for reading, over both my iPhone and my laptop. Something tactile and satisfying about scrolling and turning pages [...]

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What the iPad means to your next iPhone purchase! Observation #1 Speed

April 5, 2010

I’m not ready to write my review (if I ever am) on the iPad. It’s intriguing, it does things very well that make it compelling and it’s still a work in progress. So I’m more likely to write a few observations about the iPad over the next little while. Observation #1 I won’t be buying [...]

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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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Monetizing Mobile Apps Panel at #Mobilize

September 10, 2009

My general takeaways. The internet browser will come roaring back. That while we are discovering the power of apps on the iPhone it is only when they are interconnected and social (between people using different phones) that it becomes really interesting. Schedule 8:25 Monetizing Mobile Apps … This panel maps the mobile revenue landscape by [...]

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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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Blogger Relations

July 20, 2009

On Tuesday this last week I found myself in a learning lab at Fort Mason and then later out on the Marin headlands at…….. I’d been asked to be both fly on the wall and scribe. It was an opportunity to take a moment out, on my time and yet get exposure to thinking, reporting [...]

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TringMe’s Beta SMS Solution

January 21, 2009

I’m heading to Bangalore next week and am looking forward to meeting Yusuf Motiwala the founder of TringMe and currently India’s most innovative VoIP company. We incorporated the TringMe flash phone in the Phweet Alpha. I’ve also made it one of my tasks to look at “cheap calls” between India and the US. As TringMe [...]

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Bob Iannucci Nokia and Mobile Sensors

June 16, 2008

I’m at Supernova2008. Reporting of events generally. You can find more at ConversationHub. Kevin introduces Bob Iannucci from Nokia the largest mobile phone co in the world. Mobiles are a key enabler of what’s next. He says Nokia sells more phones in a week than Apple sells iPhones in a year. I’m sure this audience [...]

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The Mobile Social World of Presence

May 29, 2008

I’ve been thinking recently about my connectivity and mobility and one of the reasons I keep coming back to it is the dissonance I have when looking at the two mobiles I use most often. There’s now been many comparisons made between the Nokia N95 and the iPhone. Both best in class so to speak. [...]

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