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CTIA 2008 - MTV - Michael Scogin

Supervising Producer at MTV Mobile, Michael Scogin talks about the Choose or Lose project and MTV’s future plans for citizen journalism.

CTIA 2008: Nokia Social Media - Mark Squires

CTIA 2008 with Social Media Sizzle

In less than a week, CTIA 2008 kicks off in Las Vegas. The conference is self-proclaimed as the largest wireless conference in the world. Some might argue that “the conference formally known as 3GSM” is bigger. I’m not sure. What I can say for sure is that the big boys from [...]

Traveling to SF Again

Off to the city once again.  I’ll be in SF until this weekend, and am open to meeting up with mobilists, startups with mobile product(s) and social media types.  You know who you are.  Drop me a email, txt or leave an comment here. Also, looking for recommendations on getting video from the N95 to the [...]

The Attention Economy and Mobile Web 2.0

Pay attention! This phrase takes on a whole new meaning in the context of information overload from our modern day communications choices. The 24 hour news day, 500+ channels of TV on cable and dish networks, radio, XM, Sirius, and the web along with one of it’s offspring, the blogosphere, are producing an [...]

You might be paying $1,000 per MB for SMS

Many mobile prepaid service plans in the US still require a per SMS charge. Most charge for sending and receiving and include a premium charge for sending to other countries. Have you ever sat down to figure out how much you’re really paying for this frictionless and convenient mode of communication? The Plans ATT $.15 [...]

Google Adsense Nonsense Final Chapter?

The bad check story seems to have struck a chord with lots of people. I’ve enjoyed reading the various posts and comments left here and elsewhere. Thank you to everyone who added to the conversation. First, the story was picked up by Valleywag and the avalanche began from there. The [...]

Adsense Nonsense - by the numbers

Two days have passed since I tried to cash my Google Adsense check. Two days ago, I tried to call someone, anyone at Google to find out what to do. I’ve replied to the email address from which Brian the Adsense payments operations guy wrote to me. Who knows where that thing goes as [...]

Adsense Nonsense 2.0 - Google writes a bad check

If I tried, I couldn’t make up a story like this. First, there was the problem, then, there was the solution, and now comes the comedy. I hope you’re wearing your laughing pants. Catching everyone up to date quickly: Google Adsense technical gitch screwed up my address change for a month The check is already six weeks [...]

Mobile Web - Just Say No!

Mmetrics have released an interesting little data snack from their smartphone user panels. The chart shows the top “mobile web” destinations in the US versus in the UK. What’s interesting here is that five of the top ten web sites accessed from mobiles in the UK are carrier/operator sites, while the US list more closely [...]