New England Mobile Sector
As I read XConomy's post on the top 10 NE Venture deals of Q3'09, all I can do is remember that only this last Monday, at Mobile Monday, I was inside a room full of mobile entrepreneurs, money people,...
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Mobile Location is here (now for real)
In the last couple weeks I've been playing around with new mobile technology. This time, I came across this nice piece that enables marketers to learn their audience location as they view their mobile...
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IODA gets iPhone app for artists from MixMatchMusic
Image Courtesy: MixMatchMusicCongratulations to MixMatchmusic and Alan Khalfin for getting IODA on the bandwagon for their artist mobile promotional tool. IODA is a key player in the marketplace and...
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Economy's turning?
Tough times these days. With Microsoft dropping 800 peeps, Nokia-Siemens dropping thousandsetc. I have a sneaking suspicion that layoffs in the mobile location space are imminent, following Google's...
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Can Freemium Content Model Survive?
Image Courtesy: HypebotFollowing last weeks' rumors about MySpace starting to charge for streaming and this weeks'MySpace-iMeem possible acquisition rumors, there's a lot of (repeating) talk about the...
View ArticleGeeky wishes...
I wish...There was a free way to do mobile carrier lookup from a mobile number. That way I could enable people on mobile web pages to share their favorite sites with their friends in a rifle mode (the...
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Reblogged: Music as the ideal virtual good
This weekend I was fortunate to attend MusicHackDay organized at Microsoft NERD. I was even more fortunate to ask Nabeel Hyatt about recruiting talent in the music space who will help us geeks find...
View ArticleTo DYI or not DYI. That is the question!
Yesterday at MusicHackDay, I was listening to the "Starting a Music Business" panel, and two topics ran in my head:DYI vs. centralized management service for artists: A discussion started about the...
View Article"Tell A Friend", Mobile web version OR reverse mobile carrier lookup
One of the key components to enable word-of-mouth spreading of a good service, is the ability for one user to share the experience with their friend. Duh.In mobile, how can you enable that? SMS your...
View ArticleReal World Connection: Finally in the US?
For the longest time I've been a fan of, working in, and following various attempts at Real World Location technologies. Whether Mobile Barcode Scanning (Nextcode, NeoMedia, Scanbuy and others), real...
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What's Square mean to you?
Image Attribute: SquareIn the past few days there's been a lot of buzz about Square, the new mobile-phone credit card swiping solution. Point of Sale to the people, so-to-speak. Few peeps asked me of...
View ArticleTake Control over your destiny
I really enjoy reading Bijan's posts. They are very insightful, and, since there are mutual interests (consumer-facing tech, music and mobile) many times the advice or view given in his posts applies...
View ArticleWhat's next? Cross-channel monetization
Hello blog. It's been a while. back for a quick visit, let's see how long this lasts..Anyway, I'm reading this morning an insightful survey from Limelight. Mobile shoppers expectations, experiences...
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What makes a successful, monetizable mobile app?
Recently there's been a interesting movements in the mobile payments space. For example, Amazon-Bango mobile payments for Fire, Mastercards' $18M investment in mFoundry and Square's recent $100M...
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Quick snippets on Google+
I've restarted reading the feeds I used to and like before, I come across a lot of interesting short nuggets (like this).I don't want to clutter this blog, so if you're interested, follow my Google+...
View ArticleA Good Product Manager
Just as I was jotting down some thoughts (A-la "top 10") on what describes a good product manager, I came across this excellent post by Ben Horowitz (Thanks @guynirpaz). I couldn't put it better (so...
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Top 10 Characteristics of a Winning Product Manager: Preamble & 1st Post:...
What?If you're lucky (like me) to travel between Europe and America, you know the world map is presented differently. Each region draws itself as the center of the world.I think product managers are...
View Article(Mobile) Topics that get me excited these days
You may have picked up, following me relo to Israel, I'm on the job hunt these days. Relocating is a full time job. But, on occasion, I get a free hour to connect to the web, and I come across exciting...
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A Complete Mobile QA/Application Performance Management (APM) Strategy
Image Courtesy: FlickrYou want to create and maintain a valuable, optimized mobile service to your audience. There are different solutions and approaches for effective performance assurance of your...
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Explain that to me? (or: I like to poke at things!)
Preamble: We recently relocated to Israel. After 10 years in Boston.Big change. More later, perhaps, when the dust had settled.One of the first things we did is connect ourselves to the internet. I...
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