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Pitfalls to avoid when planning a mobile campaign

I spotted a pingback to the Digital Lounge presentation post from the Neoco blog, with a nice summary of the presentation I gave last week in London – thanks guys!
On the post, they also mentioned a mobile campaign seen on the London underground with an SMS call to action.
According to the post it was an Action Aid [...]

Orange trial SMS advertising – but will it work?

Orange has run the world’s first in-SMS advertising trial in Switzerland in partnership with Amobee Media Systems, a provider of advertising solutions for mobile phones. Several major brands participated in the project.
Orange ran a trial with SMS-embedded ads in Switzerland to leverage the mobile advertising potential in European markets.
SMS is probably the most efficient channel [...]

First look at Fire Eagle – the Yahoo! location aware service

A few weeks ago I read about the new Yahoo! location initiative called Fire Eagle.  Being a former practitioner in the Location industry, I rushed to the site, only to find I needed an invitation.  Luckily David Recordon from sixapart (movable type) was kind enough to send me one.  For those of you trying to [...]

STOP PRESS: Customers with unlimited data plans use more data than those charged up to £4 per megabyte!

We all know that the time leading up to Christmas and New Year is a very slow news period, but many mobile commentators including myself had a quiet chuckle when they read the story on the front page of the UK’s Financial Times on Christmas Eve 2007 – iPhone users raise network hopes.

Quoting the story from [...]