I got an interesting email yesterday in response to my recent post about mobility in Canada. It seems that Rogers Wireless has partnered with a word-of-mouth marketer call Matchstick, to promote the Nokia 6682 through bloggers in Toronto and Vancouver. They plan to give away phones to people who meet this criteria….
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This installment of the Carnival of the Mobilists (#35) is hosted by Xen Mendelsohn of Xellular Identity.
This week’s Carnival follows a World Cup theme with lots of good stuff including my recent Canadian mobile industry rant (I’ve been getting lots of traffic off this post already which is a bit of a surprise—quite a [...]
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Research is fun, you find all sorts of neat stuff…
Our Cell Phones, Ourselves, by Christine Rosen
Great article from the New Atlantis Journal. Draws from an astounding cornucopia of research to examine why we use mobile devices, how we feel about them and how they affect our lives.
With all these accoutrements, it is not surprising that [...]
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I’m pleased to announce that I/Yiibu will be speaking in Boston next week at Mobile Monday Boston (July 10th) as well as the Boston Adobe Mobile User Group (July 11th ) .
The presentation (which i’m still writing) is (somewhat loosely) titled “Creating Casual Handset Aps for the Long Tail” and will discuss content and user [...]
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In honour of Canada Day (July 1st) I thought i’d offer up some information about mobility in the ‘great white north.’
I have an ongoing love-hate relationship with the Canadian mobile industry—mostly due to the fact that we don’t really have one yet (harsh words I know.) Digging up information about what’s going on here is [...]
Tags: Mobility