What will these boys see yet refuse to tell? Uh Oh. Could Twitter become terrorists’ newest killer app? A draft Army intelligence report, making its way through spy circles, thinks the miniature messaging software could be used as an effective tool for coordinating militant attacks. (Wired) Well, if a bunch of daft marketers can co-ordinate…
Note: Social Media is user-generated, member created, content. Not interactive stuff from a web agency or traditional media company.I’ve been following 5min_tech on Twitter for a while now. 5min – Find the Best How To, instructional and DIY videos – people uploading 5 min videos to educate other people. It’s called a videopedia. Kinda cool…
Americans have all-you-can-eat bandwidth to their mobile phones for around 30 bucks a month right? (Mobile Business Magazine) As Facebook, Bebo and eBay top the popularity charts on Vodafone Mobile Internet, Vodafone UK has today changed the way it structures its price plans to include access to the internet and email on their mobile as…
Steven Noble on Twitter sent me to United Nations Foundation linked to unFoundation.org which then linked to this paper by Vodafone Group Foundation and United Nations Foundation (well, you guys always wanna know where I find my stuff) and a paper called Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in Mobile Use by NGOs: (pdf here)…
I wrote a few paragraphs recently for The Venture Group newsletter – the pdfs from that issue are gone, but what I wrote seems to be popular. Note the top right: in the next years the market for web 2.0 companies will get standardized. It seems to me that investment companies really do want to…
Happy Valentines Day! Please send chocolate! Mars gift application to launch on Facebook by Julia Buchanan LONDON – An application allowing users to send vouchers for Mars confectionary to friends on Facebook is to launch on Valentine’s Day in the UK. The application, named Celebrate, means Facebook members can buy a Mars product using Paypal…
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…
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…
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…