Foursquare seems to be in the news a lot recently, and is starting to be exhibit a similar hype curve to that of Twitter.
Update 15 March 2010: with one tweet from @mrskutcher (aka Demi Moore) the battle of the location based social media platforms is now over. Now that she is on Foursquare and other [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 13, 2010
in mobile, social media
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Tagged 4sq, @andrewgrill, @aplusk, @janole, @mrskutcher, Aston Kutcher, badges, barista, barista badge, best symbian foursquare app, brightkite, check-in, Debenhams, Debenhams foursquare offer, Demi Moore, facebook, four square, Foursquare, foursquare 101, foursquare advertising, foursquare business model, foursquare celebrities, foursquare currency, foursquare Demi Moore, foursquare local offer, foursquare social currency, google, gps, gravity, lba, lbs, location, location advertising, location based advertising, location based services, location based social, mayor currency, Nokia, rummble, seeker wireless, social currency, social media, social media advertising, social networks, starbucks, starbucks foursquare, sxsw, sxsw09, symbian foursquare app, twitter, what is foursquare
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I’ve just seen the details for this year’s MIPTV to be held in Cannes April 12 – 16th.
From the conference agenda – where else would you find Shine Group’s Elisabeth Murdoch and Joanna Shields, News Corp’s Jonathan Miller, Sky’s Jeremy Darroch to name just a few in the same room.
MIP Digital kicks off with a [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 8, 2010
in conference
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Tagged aol, bbc, bt, cannes, Channel 4, conference, digital emmy, Elisabeth Murdoch, emmy, facebook, France Télévision Interactive, Hulu, Intel, ITV Marvel Entertainment and RTL Group, Jeremy Darroch, Joanna Shields, Jonathan Miller, microsoft, mipdigital, miptv, MTV, murdoch, news corporation, Nokia, Paramount Digital Entertainment, shine group, sky, Starz Media, The Walt Disney Company, vodafone, Warner Bros, youtube
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Nokia calls on UK developers to drive innovation in mobile apps with £20,000 up for grabs.
LONDON UK – The Calling All Innovators competition is back and this time Nokia is looking for talented UK developers to create the next big thing in mobile applications.
The competition was announced at Nokia’s first Ovi Developer Open Day in [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted September 28, 2009
in Nokia
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Tagged business, developer contest, Forum Nokia, games, Nokia, nokia developer, Ovi, ovi developer, ovi store, Rupert Englander, social location, social networking, UK developer contest
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While sadly I won’t be able to attend this event because I will be speaking at the Mobile Marketing Ireland Conference in Dublin, I am happy to support and promote this event happening next week in London.
It has become so popular that the event has moved venues 3 times – and it is now going [...]
Last week, Janaina Pilomia from Forum Nokia who was kind enough to loan me a brand new Nokia N97 for blogging at the Mobile 2.0 Conference in Barcelona in June suggested that instead of returning the N97, I pass it on to someone in the Symbian developer community.
What better way to promote the offer and [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted August 8, 2009
in Nokia
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Tagged 3G doctor, 3gdoctor, Ben Morris, buddy cloud, buddycloud, developer, Forum Nokia, Ian Homer, Marko Brockman, n97, Nokia, Nokia N97, Querynet, stroke patient, stroke rehabilitation, summeli, Symbian 60, symbian developer, Symbian Series 60 5th edition, twitter pitch
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Please feel free to retweet this via http://tr.im/twitterpitch
The lovely Janaina Pilomia from Forum Nokia was kind enough to loan me a brand new Nokia N97 for blogging at the Mobile 2.0 Conference in Barcelona in June.
The device was put to good use, and is now looking for a new home. Nokia are prepared to offer [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted August 4, 2009
in twitter
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Tagged developer tweet, mobile developer, n97, Nokia, Nokia N97, nokia n97 twitter, nokia tweet, nokia va twitter, tetweet twitterpitch, twitter nokia, twitter pitch
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I had lunch today with Javier Foncillas who is Director of Branded Content for Vodafone. He was very excited as they have just launched their new Vodafone music service – reaching deals with the leading record labels to provide DRM free MP3 music. From what he told me, it was an interesting process in [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 12, 2009
in music
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Tagged apple, comes with music, digital rights, Douglas Merrill, DRM, DRM free music, EMI music, itunes, Javier Foncillas, mobile music, MP3, Nokia, Peter Knook, Real Networks, Rob Wells, side-load, sideload, sideloaded music, Sony Music, Thomas Hesse, Universal Music, unlimited music on your mobile, Vodadone, Vodafone music, Vodafone Music Catalogue
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With the flurry of announcements about application stores at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona recently, it got me thinking…
At what point does an application store from Apple, Nokia or a mobile operator simply become another walled garden?
Let’s check for the signs that app stores are really just a new type of walled garden:
- app store [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted February 28, 2009
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Tagged android, Android market, ap store, app store, apple, application store, carrier deck, epoceware, google, iphone, mobile applications, Nokia, o2, operator deck, operator portal, orange, Ovi, symbian, vodafone, walled gardens
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An interesting campaign for Pepsi in Latin America turned up in my inbox this week.
Pepsi’s “Kung Fu Fighting” Widget is a mobile software application that is part of an international TV ad campaign for the Pepsi brand and beverages that began airing last week in Latin America.
Pepsi’s TV commercial for “Kung Fu Fighting” features modern [...]
The next mashup* Event is quite timely given the recent Android / T-Mobile / G1 phone launch.
Tony Fish, Simon Grice and the mashup* crew do a great job in planning and staging these events. I first became involved when invited to chair the location panel at Being-Digital in June.
If you are in London on September 30, [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted September 23, 2008
in android
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Tagged android, bbh, g-1 phone, g1, google, google g1, mash up, mashup, mma, Nokia, Stephen Upstone, symbian, Tim Raby, Tom Hume
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Debate will continue about what “screen” mobile is – Nokia have crafted a clever 2 minute video, embedded below that argues:
1st screen = cinema
2nd screen = TV
3rd screen = internet
4th screen = mobile
Whichever screen it is, the mobile will continue to dominate our daily lives. A good thing in my opinion.
If someone had said to [...]
UPDATE: 13 March 2010: Gravity now supports Foursquare. See my post on the value of Foursquare and if you want to be able to post from your Nokia to Twitter AND Foursquare, then Gravity is the app for you. Grab it now (just $10) from l0n.eu/getgravity
UPDATE: 30 March 2009: This post is getting a lot of [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted September 6, 2008
in mobile, social media, symbian
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Tagged 4sq, 4square, @janole, best foursquare mobile app, best twitter mobile client, dabr, dabr.co.uk, four square, Foursquare, foursquare and twitter, foursquare nokia app, foursquare symbian app, foursquare twitter, gravity, gravity twitter client released, mobile twitter, mobile twitter client, mobileways, Nokia, nokia twitter, phone screen demonstration software, phone software, remote professional, S60, S60 twitter, Symbian S60, symbian software, Symbian twitter, symbian twitter app, symbian twitter application, tiny twitter, twitter, twitter and foursquare, twitter on your mobile
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UPDATE: November 29 2008
I thought it would be worth an update on this post, as it receives a fair number of hits every day so many others must also be hanging out for the E71 + Goodlink fix.
I’ve been testing version 5.1.0.24 on my E71 and E61i. The good news is that it works on [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted August 17, 2008
in mobile, push email
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Tagged blackberry, E71, gmm, good mobile messaging, goodlink, goodlink 5, Nokia, nokia e71, push email, symbian
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This post has just been featured at WOM World/Nokia.
Just over a week ago I took delivery of a shiny new Nokia E71. Those who have been following London Calling lately will know that I have been waiting excitedly for the E71 to be released, having been an early adopter of both the E61 and E61i.
After a [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted August 9, 2008
in Nokia
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Tagged business phone, E series, E71, E71 experience, e71 goodlink, flickr, goodlink, goodlink e71 keyboard, goodlink nokia bug, google mobile maps, gps, handy taskman, hsdpa, iphone killer, Nokia, nokia e series, nokia e71, Nokia E71 power user, nokia E71 review, nokia maps, nokia upgrade, psiloc connect, should I buy a Nokie E71, ShoZu, WOM World Nokia
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Google appear to be the front runners at the moment – is their lead assailable?
With Google’s current domination of the maps space thanks to Google Maps, and their recent upgrade of mobile maps to include my location, and the rumours circulating that soon they will open up their cell-ID database API to third parties – [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted August 8, 2008
in location
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Tagged cell-ID, google, gps, location, maps, mashup, mobile, mobile advertising, my location, Nokia, zagme
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UPDATE: 2 March 2009 – Visto Acquires Good
Message to Visto folks – I know your product set well but the Good mobile messaging product is sensational. Please promise to keep innovating the Good suite – it is the closest thing to mobile mail nirvana I have ever seen. When I could not get Good for [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted July 16, 2008
in Nokia
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Tagged 5.1.0.37, andrew grill, best email client, best mobile email client, best mobile email solution, best push email solution, blackberry killer, corporate email, E71 fix, evangelist, fasthosts goodlink issue, fasthosts issues, fix for goodlink E71, flagship store, gmm fix, good mobile messaging, goodlink, goodlink 5 symbian, goodlink 5.1, goodlink bug, goodlink e71, goodlink e71 keyboard, goodlink fix, goodlink issues, goodlink keyboard issue, goodlink nokia E71, goodlink nokia issues, goodlink on the nokia e71, goodlink works on E71, hosted exchange, london calling, mail for exhange alternative, mobile email, mobile email nirvana, motorola good, motorola goodlink, Nokia, nokia e71, Nokia E71 and Goodlink, nokia e71 goodlink bug, nokia E71 keyboard issue, nokia e71 problems, nokia flagship store, nokia issue with goodlink, nokia push email, nokia push mail, nokia store london, push email, Visto, Visto acquires Good
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Another huge week in Mobile – Nokia acquires Symbian, Virgin buys Helio and I still haven’t got a Nokia E71 (my hints to Nokia are clearly not obvious enough…).
This is my second turn at hosting Carnival of the Mobilists (having previously hosted Carnival 115), and if you haven’t visited since then, you will notice we’ve had [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted June 30, 2008
in carnival
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Tagged blyk, carnival, carnival 130, carnival of the mobilists, iphone, mobile 2.0 Europe, mobilists, mobility, msearchgroove, Nokia, symbian, symbian foundation
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I spoke with Bryan Stockwell from Mobile Commerce at the Navigation & Location Europe conference here in Amsterdam and he told me that they are behind the service I mentioned in an earlier post about the Microsoft LIVE local search product in the UK.
Bryan was on a panel I chaired at the Mobile Location Europe 2008 [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted June 5, 2008
in location
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Tagged cell-ID, cellID, conference, google, lbs, location, mapping, microsoft, mobile commerce, Nokia
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Welcome to All About Symbian readers – looks like we’ve had a flood of traffic from the post by Steve Litchfield titled Ruminations on cell-id location in Nokia Maps 2.0.
I have been using Nokia maps for some time now, and following the launch of their V2.0 beta at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, I have been [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted May 26, 2008
in location
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Tagged gmm, google, google mobile maps, gps, lbs, location, location inventory, maps, my location, Navteq, Nokia, nokia maps
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My morning commute has been made a little more pleasant with the introduction of a new piece of Nokia software from their beta labs – Nokia Headlines. If you’re like me and your morning newspaper of choice is a broadsheet like the Financial Times, or the Daily Telegraph, then you will know how difficult these papers are to read on public transport due to their large format size. Thanks to a new release from Nokia labs, this is a thing of the past.
The Headlines team have secured deals with major brand publishers like the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, the Sydney Morning Herald in Sydney and the Sun in London.
By Andrew Grill
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Posted May 8, 2008
in applications
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Tagged advertising, financial, headlines, herald, mobile, morning, new, news, Nokia, sydney, times, tribune, tube, underground, your
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This week the carnival looks at a range of mobile issues from mobile web site performance, top 10 mobile sites, mobile mash-ups from Nokia, mobile payments, QR codes, mobile TV and a piece from this blog about Blyk’s use of “relevancy and dialogue” that has helped propel them to their 100,000th user.
By Andrew Grill
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Posted April 27, 2008
in carnival
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Tagged blyk, carnival, carnival of the mobilists, codes, mashups, mobile, mobilists, Nokia, payments, performance, QR, sites, tv, web
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When not spending time with my family, I have been looking at a range of new and developing location based social network applications designed for the mobile. A summary of each one is presented below with links to their websites. What I have seen in the first few months of the year is a rapid [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 30, 2008
in social networking
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Tagged fireeagle, geotag, go, google, gps, gypsii, jaiku, locatik, location, locr, Loki, mobile, networking, Nokia, presence, rummble, ShoZu, skyhook, social, wireless, yahoo, zonetag
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Welcome to Carnival of the Mobilists number 115, hosted for the first time on my site, located in London, England. Thanks for stopping by and please feel free to have a look around after you have read all the carnival has to offer this week.
In another week in mobile where there has been much discussion [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 16, 2008
in carnival
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Tagged apple, carnival, carnival of the mobilists, data, developers, ecosystem, iphone, messaging, mobilists, mobility, network, networking, Nokia, sdk, sip, social, statistics, voip, wireless
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I noticed a story (with accompanying video) on the BBC Click website titled Rise and rise of the GPS mobile.
Like many stories at the moment about GPS, the author makes a few generalisations.
In the closing paragraphs, the BBC reporter Marc Cieslak notes
“This location based technology does throw up the potential for annoying features however.
If retailers [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 9, 2008
in advertising, gps, location, mobile, social networking
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Tagged ads, advertising, advertisment, detection, gps, Local, location, maps, mobile, navigation, Nokia
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Nokia ads on the London Underground – promoting their new flagship store in Regent Street as well as a really neat site called meet-your-city.com. Nokia are really living up to their slogan “Connecting people”.
See the larger photos shown above here.
