Nokia MOSH announces SEEK

Rating: don’t look now
Nokia has unveiled SEEK, “the third dimension of its mobile sharing site, MOSH”. Apparently it allows MOSH users to request content they crave and the community can then respond with suggestions or custom-created content.
SEEK will be launched officially on December 14, but is being demo’d at CTIA – we’ll be trying it [...]

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Showstoppers at CTIA – Thumbplay; fonemine; SmithMacro and dial directions

Rating: the good the bad and the rude

by Bena Roberts

OK, last post for the night as I am exhausted. But I went to ShowStoppers after the moco event and was delighted to see my ex-boss Eddie Hold from Current Analysis. But anyway; moving on I also managed to meet:

Medio provides search and advertising to CBS

Rating: what was the WAP site?

by Bena Roberts

Medio’s Marketing Director Miika Mantyvaara invited me to the moco news mixer in the evening so after I presented on Mobile Search at the Smartphone Show I headed over to meet party animals Roger Davies at the W Hotel with Monty Munford from Player X.

CTIA: Amobee’s Patrick Parodi on in SMS mobile advertising

Rating: finally some answers

by Bena Roberts

I have to admit – I always thought Patrick Parodi was a bit of charmer. The few times I have met him have always been at events and functions where he knows the right things to say at the right time.

CTIA: Harald Neidhardt Smaato mobile advertising

Rating: smart – o

by Bena Roberts

I had a great briefing with Harald from Smaato eating tofu and eggs over lunch with Earl Grey tea in a very trendy, bio-happy restaurant across the road from CTIA. In fact it was in between the Marriott and the Moscone Centre (if anyone needs a healthy place to eat).

CTIA: TravellingWave Ashwin Rao

Rating: multi-modal arrives

My first briefing of the day was with a small company a few years old focused on a multi-modal user interface. Basically you can use text input or speech to write text messages and the service is works with all voices at all times regardless of back ground noise.

Locked in a room with some analysts

Rating: Data overdose

By Tony Alton

have just got locked in a room here at Mobile Entertainment Live after blindly searching room to room for coffee and I cant leave because they shut the door.  I find myself listening to Nielsen – an analyst firm evangelising the mobile TV market. They have access to a bunch of consumer data – here are the life-changing insights live as they emerge:
1) Mobile consumers purchase more premium TV services and digital video recording devices. 
2) Apparently mobile video users are heavy time-shifters.  Like that bloke from Heroes who can go back in weeks just by blinking his eyes and straining.
3) Video-phone users prefer hour-long drama/crime/action series.  Grey’s Anatomy and CSI are top, the Bionic Woman doesn’t score so high and Baywatch isn’t even on the slide. Criminal
4) Big pie chart shows most people view mobile video in the afternoon between 4-6.  What jobs do these people have?  Skivers.
5) Deal or No Deal has apparently almost half of all SMS voting responses out of the whole cross-section.  Noel Edmonds has got texts coming out of his wiry little beard.

Facebook f**ks up in abusive message lawsuit

Thumbplay with my AOL

Zi gives Leadtek the finger (solution)

ESPN MVNO a ‘Fly Out’ admits top bod

AT&T beds Napster: Makes sweet music

Rating: Carrier gets down with the kids

By Tony Alton

Sitting up on stage in their comfortable chairs having a relaxed ‘fireside’ chat, shared by an audience of 200 mobile bods, AT&T’s Mark Collins just announced a deal with music giant Napster to make their library of tunes available to subscribers.   In a soul-cringingly rehearsed stunt Paul Ducett from mum rock band Matchbox 20 luckily just happened to be passing backstage and was called up to demo the service.  After a few awkward silences and a little time fumbling with the handset he managed to download one of his own tunes, sparking rapturous applause from one person in the corner.

Krikorian talks Slings and arrows and hints at new functionality

Rating: Don’t try put Sling back in the box.

By Tony Alton

Another homely fireside chat (still no bloody fire though) this time
featuring self-styled ‘placeshifting’ guru Blake Krikorian. (this
doesn’t mean he has invented a form of matter transport, but is the
attempted position the company is trying to take for the future).

Orange bebo goes live for GBP 3 per month

Rating: it better big good for GBP 3 per month

The problem with exclusive agreements is that the exclusivity runs out. Then competitors join in and prices tumble. On top of that network operators are forced to pay for the exclusivity and then need to get their money back and tend to opt for subscriptions.

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