I have the pleasure of rounding out 2009 with the final Carnival of the Mobilists for the year – and for the decade!
When I think back to where I was and what I was doing 10 years ago in 1999, and where I am in the world now – it has been an amazing journey.
10 [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted December 15, 2009
in mobile
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Tagged @cotmobilists, Ajit Jaokar, carnival, cotm, Dr Jim Taylor, mobile, mobile advertising, mobile marketing, mobile social networking, mobilists, msearchgroove, orange, Orange On, peggy salz, Raj Singh, Rudy de Waele, social networking, Thibaut Rouffineau, Tomi Ahonen, vodafone, vodafone 360, Volker Hirsch
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This post looks at taking social media mobile and how the growth in social networks will drive mobile internet usage.
You can’t help noticing how fast social networks are growing around the world, and with the two that get the most press lately – Facebook and Twitter, the real question is what does the explosion of [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted October 6, 2009
in social networking
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Tagged Allan Moore, facebook, microsoft, mobile internet, mobile internet adoption, mobile internet plans, mobile meets social networking, mobile social, mobile social media, mobile social networking, mobile web, moso, orange, Orange social life, social media, social networking, the glittering allure of the mobile society, twitter, vf360, vodafone 360
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Bena Roberts and the team at GoMo news asked thought leaders in the mobile space to share a mix of insight, due diligence and perception with us. What they got was a number of razor sharp articles piercing the heart of the mobile marketing, mobile advertising, barcode and mobile search space.
The resulting essays in mobile hope to make a [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted October 6, 2009
in thought leadership
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Tagged barcode, bena roberts, digital newspaper, gomo, gomo news, issuu, mobile, mobile advertising, mobile barcodes, mobile esats, mobile marketing, mobile search, mobile social networking, opinion, thought leaders
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As many of you know, I worked in the mobile location (LBS) space for nearly 4 years while GM of Seeker Wireless, and as such I still have a real passion for the LBS space.
I have been following closely what Google have been doing with Google Mobile Maps, Google latitude, and now the Google latitude [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted May 6, 2009
in location
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Tagged auomatic location, cell-ID, cellular location, find me, gmm, google latitide update, Google latitude, google location api, google location sharing, google mobile maps, latitude api, lbs, locate me, location, location services, locaton based services, mobile advertising, mobile social networking, where am i, WiFi location
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This week sees London host two important events, one being the G20 meeting, the other is carnival of the mobilists, hosted right here in London at London Calling.
For those of you who don’t know much about the carnival – have a look at www.mobili.st and to the one person this week who emailed me thinking that [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 29, 2009
in carnival
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Tagged 3g enabled, 7th mass media, Africa mobile costs, Ajit Jaokar, Amazon kindle, America, andrew grill, australia, Barack Obama, blogs, carnival, carnival 167, carnival of the mobilists, Chetan Sharma, china, clud services, cotm, Dennis Bournique, embedded clients, eu, european union, G-20, G20, G20 mobile summit, G20 summit, G20 summit special edition, geekcast.fm, Gordon Brown, india, iphone, iPhone myth buster, James Cooper, Kevin Rudd, london calling, Luxembourg, Martin Sauter, mjelly, mobile, mobile advertising evangelist, mobile blogger, mobile broadband, mobile markets, mobile opinion, mobile sensors, mobile social networking, mobile tribe, mobili.st, mobility, Per-Fredrik, sydney, Tomi Ahonen, twitter, United Kingdom, us iphone traffic, wap review, wireless moves
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This week’s carnival of the mobilists is being hosted at Ubiquitous Thoughts - edited by Mark van ‘t Hooft.
This week’s roundup in mobile covers topics such as mobile applications and development, mobile communication, mobile content, mobile marketing and mobile statistics.
This week Mark has nominated one of our posts “Twitter vs Google search – is this the [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 9, 2009
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Tagged @moso09, carnival, carnival 164, carnival of the mobilists, mobile applications and development, mobile communication, mobile content, mobile marketing, mobile social networking, mobile statistics, moso, Ubiquitous Thoughts
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UPDATE: March 6 2009 – since finishing this article last night, my twitter theory about breaking news and the power of twitter search has been once again proven correct. At 09:57 GMT this morning, one of my Melbourne twitter friends @emilyfreeman tweeted “did the earth just move? Seriously??”.
This article was also published by Digital-Media magazine in Australia [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 6, 2009
in twitter
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Tagged @andrewgrill, ad age, breaking news, dabr, eric schmidt, eureka moment, google, local search, local social search, melbourne earthquake, mobile advertising, mobile social, mobile social networking, mobile social search, twitter, twitter news, twitter search
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The year is already starting to fill up with a range of speaking engagements across Europe – summarised below.
If you would like to invite me to speak at your next event, please contact me directly or call +44 788 198 6694 (GMT +1 timezone).
Mobile World Congress – Ogilvy Telco Conference, Barcelona 19 – 20 Feb
London [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted February 5, 2009
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Tagged "web goes mobile" "Brussels November 2009", ad:tech London, adtech, conference, conference speaker, dialog konferansen, dialogue conference, digital training company, dinner speaker, guest speaker, IIR conference, IIR mobile advertising conference, Keynote Speaker, mc, MEX, MEX 2009, mobile advertising, mobile advertising evangelist, mobile evangelist, mobile internet 2009, mobile marketign course, mobile marketing summit, mobile monday, Mobile Monday amsterdam, mobile social networking, mobile speaker, mobile user experience, mobile world congress, momo, Ogilvy telco conference, presenter, speaking, speaking engagements, The Next Speaker, thought leader, visiongain, Visiongain MAMA awards, visonary
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UPDATE: According to a tweet from Jouko Ahvenainen, this is the first review of the book.
I was fortunate enough to be sent an advance review copy of an excellent new book from Futuretext titled “Social Media Marketing”. The subheading reads “How data analytics helps to monetize the user base in telecoms, social networks, media and advertising in a [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted December 28, 2008
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Tagged acquisition alpha, Ajit Jaokar, Alan Moore, alpha, alpha aquirers, alpha churners, alpha users, Brian Jacobs, churn alpha, communities dominate brands, cost per relevant audience, CPRA, customer ownership, digital footprints, futuretext, google, Jouko Ahvenainen, knowing the customer, mobile, mobile advertising, mobile social networking, owning the customer, permission marketing, product alpha, social insight, social media, Social Media Marketigng, Xtract
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As we’re into the final stretch before Christmas, I thought I would share with you my Christmas reading list (well part of it).
Along with my normal reading of publications such as the Financial Times, Economist etc, I am also going to speed through the following set
From left to right: “Mobile as 7th of the Mass [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted December 22, 2008
in books
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Tagged Ajit Jaokar, Alan Moore, Brian Jacobs, Comunities Dominate Brands, Jouko Ahvenainen, mobile advertising, Mobile as 7th of the Mass Media, mobile social networking, social media, suggested reading, Tomi Ahonen
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This week the carnival of the mobilists is hosted at mopocket. Head over there to read a collection of posts around mobile social networking, mobile learning, mobile money, mobile security, the iPhone and the new mobile landscape.
Head over now to http://www.mopocket.com/2008/07/welcome-to-the-134th-carnival-of-the-mobilists.php for the best of mobile blogging.
Taptu is a search engine for your mobile phone. Starting with music and fact-finding, they offer a load of content to help you find what you need quickly on your mobile.
Last week I had the pleasure of meeting Steve Ives, CEO of Taptu and Christophe Hocquet from Moblr, who are using Taptu to power their social [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted July 21, 2008
in search
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Tagged Christophe Hocquet, google, mobile, mobile search, mobile social networking, moblr, search, steve ives, taptu, Vero Pepperrell
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If you have not read my recent post – is twitter a serious business tool or just a complete waste of time, then you may not know the answer. Suffice to say, those that hold the former view are having an inaugural “Eat’n’tweet” this Thursday 3rd July at 1pm at The Couch 97 Dean Street, [...]
