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It’s Not Mobile Unless It’s Mobile.

Published by in Mobile on June 4th, 2010

Mobile is coming. It’s going to be big. These words rang around the room in a garage style meeting as a group of bright young things contemplated how to create the next Amazon.com at the end of 1999. 10 years on, mobile is still being talked about as the next big thing, but is the term mobile even meaningful? In the USA, when I used to pitch mobile marketing, people thought I meant putting a billboard on the back of a truck and driving it around the streets. The next definition of mobile was differentiating the way in which a device connected to the wider world. Mobile meant that a device had to connect through a network operator like AT&T or Vodafone or NTT Docomo. WIFI has changed that! When developing applications and services for end users on new devices,

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FourSquare – A Technology Solution Looking for a Problem?

For those on the bleeding edge of technology there are seemingly hundreds of new applications and networks, each with slightly different functionality, each competing for the icon space on my phone (Blackberry). One that has been getting a little bit more share of voice is a location based application/game called FourSquare. Location has always been important to relationships – the ‘L’ in ASL still begins thousands of online chat encounters daily, but over the years, those who have tried to launch location based services have come up against the same barriers. Those barriers are rooted in basic economics, which most application developers have never studied, so they don’t have any concept of utility or critical mass or switching costs. A service like FourSquare is actually very simple to build. You don’t need GPS or an iPhone, all you need is

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