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Foursquare and the opportunity for location based social media

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 [...]

Why are clients still scratching their heads about Social Media?

I read an interesting report in the Telegraph yesterday that says London is the “social media capital of the world”.  This is not hard to believe – a city of 8 million people that the Telegraph claim would rather tweet than talk to each other on the tube.
But with such a focus on social media [...]

.mobi – brands are slowly warming to the idea of mobile

I went to a workshop in London on Thursday afternoon held by dot mobi (the .mobi guys) talking specifically about the Top Ten Mistakes in Mobile Marketing.  The event, held at the über trendy Hospital Club in SoHo was well attended (perhaps too well attended by pesky Mobile Monday types who asked lots of tough questions).
The host was [...]

3G dongle family grows – Vodafone announces USB stick 3G modem

Since my recent post on USB dongles vs Coffee shop WIFi Will the 3G mobile broadband “dongle” kill the WiFi hotspot market?, I received a number of follow up posts following the post being published on Carnival of the Mobilists.

Dean Bubley of Disruptive Analysis had a similar theme to his post on Joining the 3G [...]

Carnival of the Mobilists #106

Carnival of the Mobilists #106 is up at  http://www.xellular.net/2008/01/carnival-106-is.html, hosted by Xen Mendelsohn of Xellular Identity. where you will read a number of interesting articles from thought leaders in the mobile space including…

Ajit Jaokar of Open Gardens asks us will P2P IMS applications take off or will there be only Web applications? Very interesting food [...]

Will the 3G mobile broadband “dongle” kill the WiFi hotspot market?

The picture on the left (taken late December 2007) shows a more common sight than a few years ago.  I have been using WiFi in Starbucks and other coffee shops for nearly 8 years now, and for I think the last 6 years I was predictably the only person on a laptop (connected to WiFi) [...]