The US Logo: smells like Google “don’t be evil” to me. ok no clue if this job is up for grabs or not, saw it in AdNews: Bailey departs Virgin Mobile SYDNEY: Virgin Mobile marketing director Sue Bailey is leaving the company to move to the US. Bailey, who has been with Virgin since 2003, will finish in Australia on 14 December to take up a role with Virgin Mobile USA. Virgin Mobile has released a statement describing Bailey as “a lynch pin in Virgin Mobile’s success”. “With a team of around 40, her role has covered everything from brand Continue Reading…
Oct 202007
Posted by Laurel Papworth at 11:49 pm Tagged with: director marketing, mobile, Online Communities, Social Media Australia, social networks, Sue Bailey, Sydney, United States, Virgin Mobile USA
Google moves further into the mobile/cellphone space – not community per se but yellow pages, movie showtimes, and so on: Google has launched beta version of a new service called Google SMS for mobile users in India. With Google SMS mobile messaging service, users can get business listings, movie showtimes and more by sending a text message to the shortcode 54664 from their mobile phones.The new service is currently available on the Airtel, Aircel, BPL, BSNL and Reliance networks, and has relevant local data for mobile users in Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai. According to Google, users of Google SMS Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 6:51 pm Tagged with: Google, Google India, head of products, India, mobile, sms, Social Media Australia, telecom operator, Vinay Goel
Oct 042007
… gave in. He is now Twittered *hears the shouts and cheers*.David don’t look now, I’m following you… For those who care, in the past David N Wallace has been a little, shall we say, reticent about joining Twitter. In fact he’s been quite a rudie when talking about it. How the mighty have fallen… and this is SO worthy of a blog post all on it’s own. Twitterheads rejoice! Technorati Tags: social networks, mobile, rss, david n wallace
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 12:38 am Tagged with: David N Wallace, mobile, rss, social networks, Twitter
Oct 032007
Please cover your ears and eyes, your childrens’ ears and eyes, and probably the dog’s too. Friggin’ stupid marketing moronic idiotic moronic loser bonehead marketing dipstick dummy moronic wallys – did I mention moronic? – marketing jerks that 3 Business Mobile Broadband employs. I wanted to find out about “Make your workforce more productive with $29 mobile broadband” – it’s not a whitepaper full of research goodness, not an invite to a private launch, not anything of value other than sales information. And this is the hoops I have to jump through. (Click on this to see the bigger picture, Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:17 pm Tagged with: broadband, Business Mobile Broadband, mobile, social media, Social Media Australia, social network, USD
If that’s my avatar on the phone, tell ‘em I’m not in. Vodafone in Second Life: Vodafone has launched a mobile operation in Second Life enabling users to connect real life with the virtual world. Vodafone Inside Out, which launched yesterday in beta, will only be advertised in the virtual world through Second Life newspapers The AvaStar and Metaverse Messenger. The service will enable users to call other Second Life avatars and connect the call to mobile phones in the real world.The service will enable Second Life friends to speak to each other offline when one is online. Users can Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:49 am Tagged with: BBH, CEO, Dare, immersive technology applications, Justin Bovington, london, mobile, mobile phones, Rivers Run Red, second life, sms, social networks, virtual world agency, vodafone
I’m such a slack lazy sloth. Some handsome chap from Mobile Monday Sydney asked me to email him about talking on a panel re: Mobile phones and social networks. I meant to do it – OOPS! too late! It’s on tonight: SPECIAL LATE GUEST MySpace Australia‘s Business Development Manager, Nick Love, will be joining our panel tonight, welcome Nick its great to have you! Our Panellists- Jeff Brookes, Regional Director at Sulake Australia (Habbo)- Nick Love, Business Development Manager at MySpace Australia- Paul Grueber, Head of Business Development at Loop Mobile- George Karabelas, Director of Products at HWW (visit mobile.yourtime.com.au). Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 9:12 pm Tagged with: Business Development Manager, Director of Products, George Karabelas, Head of Business, Head of Business Development, HWW, Jeff Brookes, mobile, MySpace Australia, Nick Love, Online Communities, Paul Grueber, Regional Director, Social Media Australia, social networks, Sulake Australia
By way of Kay Smoljak (on Twitter via Facebook, oddly enough): Clive Thompson on How Twitter Creates a Social Sixth Sense Twitter is the app that everyone loves to hate. Odds are you’ve noticed people — probably much younger than you — manically using Twitter, a tool that lets you post brief updates about your everyday thoughts and activities to the Web via browser, cell phone, or IM. The messages are limited to 140 characters, so they lean toward pithy, haiku-like utterances. When I dropped by the main Twitter page, people had posted notes like “Doing lunch and picking up Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 6:23 pm Tagged with: mobile, social networks, Twitter
Jul 082007
I’m quite concerned – it’s nearly impossible to tell that the second one is knitted. Story here. Tags: Humour, mobile, telecommunications, iphone, knitting, Australia
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 8:08 pm Tagged with: mobile, Social Media Australia
Jul 042007
Found this on the ‘net so it must be true (from ITFacts): 174 mln users to get into mobile social networks by 2011 ABI Research found that “mobile social communities” currently count nearly 50 mln members worldwide, a number that is expected to reach 174 mln in 2011. Metrics 2.0 have also picked up on the figures: Social Communities Go Mobile: 50 million to Become 174 million The rapid rise of online social communities and the companies behind them (such as MySpace and Facebook), has found a natural extension to the mobile phones. There are currently nearly 50 million members Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:33 pm Tagged with: AirG, cellular telephone, Clint Wheelock, co-founder and director, Facebook, Frederick Ghahramani, mobile, mobile phones, Mobile social networks, Online Communities, online social communities, personal networking, portable wireless devices, sms, social networking, social networks, vice president of research, wireless social networking
Jul 042007
What mobile widgets and apps do you have and which service provider are you with? Does anyone else find having a Twitter widget on a mobile a bit, well, redundant? This one only works on Mobio network. Do the impossible – right from your phone 50+ FREE & cool mobile widgets! – New! twitter on Mobio- New! digg on Mobio- New! My RSS- New! Kaboodle- locate Cheap Gas- find live music events- stop getting lost with 1-click maps Wow, how nice of them to give out free widgets – that you have to pay to access. :pHow do you feel Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 2:13 pm Tagged with: cellular telephone, convergent device, Google, Java, mobile, mobile phones, Mobile social networks, Online Communities, Social Media Australia, social networks, telecommunications, telstra, vodafone, WAP, web browser, wireless, WLAN
Lots of chatter in online communities on this one – mostly from marketing people, not teens though: SPRITE PIONEERS NEW CONSUMER CONNECTIONS THROUGH MOBILE TECHNOLOGY The “Sprite Yard” is the first “community-to-go” that combines photo sharing, message board, planner, and digital downloads in one simple interface for mobile phones ATLANTA, June 6, 2007 – The Coca-Cola Company is redefining the relationship between consumers and their sparkling beverages with the launch of the Sprite Yard, a real-time digital “on-the-go” community that provides social connections and downloadable content via their mobile phone anytime, anywhere. This mobile marketing breakthrough launched in China on Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:45 pm Tagged with: ATLANTA, cell phones, cellular telephone, China, Coca Cola, Denis Sison, instant messaging, mobile, mobile phones, obesity, Online Communities, online destinations, planner, social networks, Sprite Global Brand Director, Sprite Yard, The Coca-Cola Company, United States, WAP
Apr 162007
Ok, so you don’t have any friends to add to your Twitter: how about your server? : using Twitter for server-monitoring if you think Twitter is all about personal micro-blogging and basically a waste of time, think again. with their recent API-extension, it’s now possible to integrate Twitter as a cost-free SMS gateway into your own applications (like the guys at Tupalo have already done). of course there are loads of SMS-based monitoring services out there, but the good ones aren’t free, and most aren’t very customizable. my simple demo PHP-script monitors any number of web-servers and alerts me by Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 8:28 pm Tagged with: mashups, mobile, php, sms, Twitter, web-servers
Feb 112007
I haven’t read anything of Stan Beer‘s in a while: Zune and Wi-Fi versus iPhone and carriers?When you hear news that a consortium that includes Microsoft, Google, HP, Dell and Intel, among others has filed to submit a wireless handheld Internet access prototype device developed by Microsoft to the Federal Communications Commission, you know something is up. When you also hear rumours that the device may be based upon a Zune then you suspect a war is brewing and it involves telcos as well. When Steve Jobs took the stage last month at Macworld to announce Apple’s relationship with Cingular, Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 7:27 am Tagged with: Barcelona, cellular telephone, convergent social networking devices, Dell, Federal Communications Commission, Google, Greg Joswiak, handheld Internet access prototype device, Intel, Internet access, Internet capability, iphone, iPod, Microsoft, mobile, mobile carrier, prototype device, social networks, staid conservative telecommunications carrier, Steve Jobs, United States, VOIP, VP iPod products, Wi-Fi, wireless Internet access space
Jan 292007
I run another blog on location based services and GPS technology. Problem is, the online communities/social networks and user generated content Web 2.0 area and location based services are starting to merge… Webraska’s new Web 2.0 initiative to be fully compatible with Webraska Navigation for GPS mobile phonesWebraska, a leading provider of mobile GPS navigation solutions and high-end geospatial software platforms for wireless carriers and major service providers worldwide, is pleased to announce the launch of Webraska Inuk, its new platform designed to allow location-based service operators to support user-created dynamic content. Webraska Inuk is a powerful and flexible platform Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 9:29 pm Tagged with: LBS, mobile, Online Communities, social networks, user generated content, web 2.0
Jan 152007
As most of you know, I do a bit of work with Mobiles2Go.com, the LBS GPS mobile solutions people. Here’s a brill story I picked up today from an email: Approximately 3 months ago my daughter took the ikids with her to the swimming pool. Later that day she calls me from a pay phone saying that she had lost it. I performed a ‘find’ and found that it was still in the same suburb. I then did a mobile route search a found that the i kids was in the same suburb but quiet far from where she was. Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 6:18 pm Tagged with: GPS, i-kids product, LBS, mobile
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