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Pardon the Dust at Mobile Jones
I’ve been thinking about and planning changes to mobilejones.com for quite a few months now. You will see a number of changes in layout, design and features as the project continues. Hopefully, these improvements will make mobilejones.com a better resource and enable some features that readers will love. Please be patient as these upgrades will [...]
Continue reading...$5 Million Funding Pool - Knight News Challenge
22. September 2008
What would you do to innovate journalism if you had the funding? The Knight News Challenge is in it’s third year of a five year plan to provide $25 million in grants for geo-focused open source projects which drive innovation in journalism. I’m very excited to be involved in this year’s competition as an application screener along [...]
Continue reading...Time for a Refresh at mobilejones.com
25. June 2008
I’ve been toying with ways to restructure the site to accommodate video and other new elements on mobilejones.com. It’s become clear that the site needs a refresh with a design better suited to curating and wider diversity of media types. Watch for a new design along with a new approach and focus for mobilejones going [...]
Continue reading...Nokia Debuts Conversations with the Blogosphere
21. April 2008
Nokia Conversations goes live April 21st, 2008, led by Nokia’s social media expert, Charlie Schick. As a member of the newly minted Social Media Communications group inside Nokia, Charlie has built what he refers to as a “mud hut,” and which he plans to transform into a blogosphere palace. Mark Squires describes the [...]
Continue reading...Crosspost from MM2 - Farwell Mobile Messaging 2.0
16. April 2008
A year ago I received an email from Francois Gossieaux about a new thought leadership blog that would focus on the mobile industry and specifically messaging. Initially I thought it might be another among the countless offers I’ve received to provide content for free “to raise my profile.” When I read that this was a [...]
Continue reading...Blognation: The Blogger’s Prelude and Tale
5. December 2007
Canterbury Tales Woodcut 148 To telle yow al the condicioun, Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, And whiche they weren, and of what degree, And eek in what array that they were inne, And at a knyght than wol I first bigynne. [...]
Continue reading...Tech Crunch 40
13. September 2007
I’m travelling to SF this weekend in order to attend Tech Crunch 40. Would love to meet any mobile companies in the area. If you or your company is interested, I have some time on my calendar Wednesday, September 19th. My contact info is on the About page or you can leave a comment here. More [...]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt confirms Google 700 MHz bid
31. August 2007
While speaking at The Progress and Freedom Foundation Aspen Summit on August 21, 2007, Eric Schmidt states that Google plans to make good on their 700 MHz bid of 4.6 Billion with a caveat. He explains that the FCC’s final language will be “important.” The principles that the FCC embraced need to be [...]
Continue reading...Return of Oliver Starr
14. August 2007
Oliver Starr, who originated MobileCrunch and The Mobile Weblog before it, has returned to the blogosphere today. Oliver has joined forces with former TechCrunch UK editor and current Blognation CEO, Sam Sethi both with highly public departures from Mike Arrington’s company. Blognation’s mission is - wait for it - reporting on startups. Blognation [...]
Continue reading...MoSoSo Experts Podcast Panel - Twitter, MOKO, JuiceCaster
7. August 2007
I had the chance recently to chat on the phone with Paul Gruber from MOKO, Nick Desai for Juice Wireless, and Biz Stone from Twitter. The time flew by and I could have talked with these guys for at least another couple of hours on all things mobile and social. Unfortunately, for me, they all [...]
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The day before the North Carolina State Fair opened in Raleigh the door was open to preview the midway for 2009. The rain and cold didn’t slow down workers putting the final touches on everything from rides to ensuring enough oil was on hand for frying pickles, candy bars, Oreos and even apple pie.
Even the State Fair and those who cover it are making use of mobile technologies for convenience and function. I hope you enjoy the show!
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26. January 2009
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