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Y Combinator - “30 Startup Ideas We Would Like To Fund”

I’m cross posting this from Jonathan Macdonald’s blog who in turn sourced this from Y Combinator.
I’m with Jonathan about number 12 (or soon will be working on this full time - fix advertising and specifically mobile advertising).
You can see the original post here and I have re-pasted the list below.
1. Two things are broken: record labels and [...]

July 22, 2008 ♦ Comment?

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Nokia: featured

Goodlink Nokia E71 keyboard issue under investigation

UPDATE 1: Since the original post on July 4th, I have had almost 1000 views and multiple emails on the subject.  It looks like the new Nokia E71 users craving for their Goodlink mobile email fix are being held back by a bug where Goodkink does not recognise the Nokia E71 keyboard properly - which makes it a bit [...]

July 4, 2008 ♦ 13 Comments

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Carnival of the mobilists 133 is at visionmobile.com

This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is at Visiion Mobile.
As usual, a great range of news and views on all thins mobile so I encourage you to head over to Vision Mobile and have a read.
This week there are quite a few thought pieces and observations worth reading. The iPhone 3G has kept most bloggers busy, [...]

July 21, 2008 ♦ Comment?
advertising

always read the small print

I picked up the latest Carphone Warehouse brochure yesterday - always a good read for market research.
I came across this full page O2 ad below.  I’m a loyal Vodafone customer so no need to switch - but I love reading mobile company small print for a laugh.

Reading the small print, it says “When you connect to [...]

July 20, 2008 ♦ 1 Comment
blogs

London Calling makes the top 100 European media & marketing blogs

Tonight I was finishing an upgrade of the blog from wordpress version 2.5.1 to 2.6 and I saw that Nick Burcher had linked to London Calling so I took a closer look.
He has compiled the top European media and marketing blogs from the Ad Age Power 150 list compiled by Ad Age.
I’m delighted to say [...]

July 20, 2008 ♦ 4 Comments
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A happy blogger - thanks for reading and for your support

Thanks to everyone for reading London Calling. I am still very humbled that so many people from around the world take the time to check out my blog periodically, and also thrilled that our RSS feed subscribers keep trending up and up.  Below is a screen shot of subscriber numbers since mid January 2008.

At pretty [...]

July 18, 2008 ♦ Comment?
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Clicky - a new web analytics service worth a closer look

I came across Clicky from one of my twitter contacts, so I thought I’d take a closer look.
Wow! This is the analytics tool I have been waiting for. For 2 years I had to suffer with only matrixstats from my web host, then recently signed up for mybloglog which give a better view of what is going on with [...]

July 18, 2008 ♦ 2 Comments
opinion

The impedance effect of the mobile industry

I’m an Engineer from way back, so for me the concept of impedance refers to
“the effective resistance to an alternating electric current arising from the combined effect of ohmic resistance and reactance“.
Translated - it means things and people getting in the way.
As some of you know, I present at conferences and speak to people [...]

July 17, 2008 ♦ 1 Comment
mapping

Yell mobile updates mobile mapping location

Detailed maps, directions and business listings free to your mobile phone
Yell.com has announced a significant addition to its suite of free-to-use mobile products, unveiling a much enhanced version that focuses on providing map-based information on businesses and services.
Yell.com mobile maps, a downloadable application that offers a range of market-leading product features, enables consumers to locate any [...]

July 16, 2008 ♦ 2 Comments
location

Could location drive the future of the humble SIM card?

For some time now, the Subscriber Identity Module - more commonly known as the SIM - has been pushed away from the limelight to make way for the new ‘shining stars’ such as instant messaging, mobile marketing and social networking. It is now time for the SIM to take a new lease of life and [...]

July 16, 2008 ♦ 6 Comments

Comments

  • I.M. Vocal: This is a good example of what mobile apps should be: seamless user "experiences" that leverage...
  • Chirantan: Keep up the lobbying..im very close to acquiring a e71 and dumping my aweful treo.. through your efforts,...
  • Reena: Hi Andrew, I read your post on Good and E71 - interesting. There has been a lot of interest in the E71 and...
  • Vero Pepperrell: Thanks for taking the time to meet Steve last week. It’s great to get feedback from passionate...
  • Martin: Hi Andrew, Thanks for the blog entry. Interesting service, will give it a try! Cheers, Martin
  • Sachendra Yadav: Thanks for sharing Andrew, I was looking for something exactly like this. Just signed up :)
  • Jonathan Marks: Great discovery. I love reading the legal pages on websites too. Have you seen...
  • Cindy King: Thank you for posting this Andrew, I didn’t know that my site, Get International Clients, was just...
  • Andrew Grill: The E71 Goodlink keyboard issue has made it to the Nokia discussions page as other users (like the 900+...
  • AT: Couple ways to get around the lack of Contacts integration that work on the E61i - Uninstall GoodLink - Synch...
  • Rapolu: Keyboard issue is killing me. Using the stadard editor for replying email and pasting onto good is a constant...
  • Rainer: Hi Andrew, I see your point! Yes, the SIM is definitely a way to access cell ID, which works pretty much on...
  • Rainer: Hm. I’m not quite sure if I fully got the point of your post. Do you mean the SIM is the pivotal point...
  • Mohamed: I just got mine today and I have to say that my whole excitement was killed by the Goodlink issues: 1) num...
  • Chris Glynne: Of course the other thing it could do hold a personal profile of the user such that local vendors could...
  • Jamie: Yeah definitely need Goodlink for the E71! Looks amazing apart from the current lack of Goodlink. I’ve...
  • Gerald: I just got my E71 and, Golly! What a cool device. Same issue as you do with Good. Every thing went fine from...
  • Anna Gudmundson: Good stuff Andrew! Best, Anna

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Based in London, Andrew Grill is an experienced Telecoms Senior Executive and mobile advertising evangelist. The views expressed here are my own. Find out more at andrewgrill.com