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1 Billion Apps
Keep that in mind the next time somebody tells you people don’t like to download apps on their phone. And remember Buckley’s Law #31: Citizens will download applications, providing it’s very clear...
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Mobile Barcodes: Dead or Alive?
I’d been wondering a bit about mobile barcodes lately after I set one up as a shortcut for a blog. There’s no doubt that they’re useful as a means of navigating to a site on a mobile device, and have...
View ArticleESPN Sets Up A Co-Browsing Destination for College Football Fans
In January 2008, ESPN said that its NFL web content got more hits from mobile than from PCs during one 24-hour period. An exec surmised that it was NFL fans checking other scores and stats while they...
View ArticleClutching At Straws
I’ve been listening to British radio station Xfm online quite a bit lately. In addition to some great music, they feature some of the most bizarre ads I’ve ever heard, pitching dating sites for people...
View ArticleUpdate On mGive Mobile Giving: Already over $1 million for Haiti
I wrote about mGive’s mobile charity donation platform in December, and it’s back in the news today. Already, Americans have donated more than $1.2 million to the Red Cross’ Haiti relief efforts using...
View ArticleMore Sports Cobrowsing, With Football3s
I just spent some time watching Liverpool lose to Arsenal in an English Premier League football match. As Liverpool fan, the game itself wasn’t particularly rewarding, but I had a great time playing...
View Article.mobi Gets Sold Off
mTLD, the company set up by Nokia, 3, Google, Ericsson, Vodafone, Samsung, T-Mobile and other industry bigwigs to run the .mobi top-level domain is being purchased by another registrar responsible for...
View ArticleCrowd Sourcing by Mocality
One of my consistent predictions for mobile in the last 5 years or so, has been that innovation in mobile will travel from developing markets into the developed ones. This is because mobile is either...
View ArticleGen MO – Mobile-Only Generation
One of the theories many of us have been writing about for ages now is that there’s a whole bunch of people who are part of Gen MO. Or people who use the mobile exclusively. To be clear, this is not...
View ArticleTadaa Hits 1,000,000 Downloads
It’s been a busy time since we started Ballpark Ventures earlier this year, so I thought I’d update you on some of the companies I’ve been involved with recently, either as an investor, mentor, advisor...
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