BuzzCity: social networking

Rating: another mobile social network coming to the UK?

I just got briefed on BuzzCity.

Who?
Yes, that is what I thought. But the company is based in Singapore and has two million subscribers in Asia.

More NeoMedia Changes as Dr. Christian Steinborn becomes new COO

Rating: changing to move forward

As a very early follower of Neom, I have seen the company transform from buy it all mode to sell it all mode to now what I call “focus” mode.

Truphone VoIP over WiFi

Rating: Call me!

I feel a strange fondness to Truphone after it “up’d the revolution and took T-Mobile to court”.

SMSfun

Rating: SMS sexy message service? (Not funny)

Smsfun.com.au is an Australian based SMS mobile community. It launched in early 2006 and in 18 months has seen huge growth and expansion to New Zealand and now the UK.

Smsfun.co.uk was acquired this month.

Quattro Wireless Playboys

Rating: GetMobile? NO. Get Playboy

Saucy mens magazine Playboy has signed up Quattro’s GetMobile platform for advertising and site rendering.

QR codes, Coupons Big in Japan – but don’t forget France

Rating: the future

I would like to point readers to a great article in my favourite daily read The Guardian.

Why?
1. There is a brilliant picture of people using mobile on the train
2. There is a great quote from our friends at Wireless Watch Japan
3. It’s interesting.
But…

Mobile Book Worm? Comic Worm? Mobile Worm?

Rating: too small or just right?

It seems that mobile books are in. The Japanese set trends and Japanese people are reading trillions of novels on mobile. On of Japan’s leading mobile publishers Maho i-Land has six million members and over one million book titles to choose from.

Slip of the finger leads to Warney being caught out

Rating: Males-box full - please delete wife to make space for more
By Tony Alton
Couldn’t resist blogging on this (loosely related) mobile story making the headlines. Cricket hero Shane Warne (for our US readers cricket is that game a bit like baseball which takes 18 weeks and Shane Warne is a podgy Australian who is the [...]

Airwide grows a marketing brain

Rating: War and Peace release
By Tony Alton

Imagine being a network operator.  It’s utter chaos.  There you are, being all friendly like and providing exceptional connectivity for the people and listening to their every need, it’s almost a public service.  And what do the people do?  They whine and moan about prices and then they have the utter audacity to use whatever handset they please on your fat pipe.  It’s criminal.

Myxer magics 6.5 million funding

The social networking and mobile VC funding boom

Rating: what goes up, must come down

This has been a very hectic September for GoMo News and BKI Media with many social, business, speaking, commentating and blogging engagements. But now my feet are on the ground and will be here until Tuesday, I can finally do email.

So this month I missed a number of blogging opportunities. Most of them in the VC space and this is quick round-up of the press releases that I received and missed. They tell a very, very interesting tale.

Grasswhispers corporate podcasting via mobile

Rating: this sounds scary

In one of the latest Dr. Who episodes everyone has to wear ear pieces for the sake of corporate communications. When I read this email it reminded me of that Dr. Who episode the one with the Cybertrons and where Rose Tyler’s parents are all posh and she is a dog (if you know the name let me know).

Melodeo plays sweet music in Korea

Rating: What the KTF?

Melodeo has announced a licensing deal with Korean Telecom Freetel (KTF). KTF will distribute Melodeo’s industry leading mobile and web technology. This is hot on the heels of a similar announcement with China Unicom and JV Sony BMG, Warner and Motorola.

Blyk me, I’m in trouble?

Rating: 2 b xpectd?

Telecoms reports that Blyk might be in trouble and cross network MMS is not currently available. That might be the case but its just a small hiccup.

AOL Mobile gets hotter?

Rating: if the search is anything to go by….
The answer is yes. So I am not sure if its AOL or InfoGin to thank for the new AOL search experience that I am currently addicted to – but if attempts to transform mobile are in par with the search – then we are all in [...]

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