mHealth is growing up
There’s something rather resilient about the English language – it does a pretty good job of shrugging off silliness. I’ve noticed a decline in geek-inflicted bastardizations, such as adding 2.0 to anything (yes, guilty as charged) and removing vowels from company names. In today’s post-crash world Twittr and Facebk would seem too flimsy. So too, [...]
Key themes from Mobile Future Forward
I attended an interesting event in Seattle recently – Mobile Future Forward. The Conference was the first such one, hosted by mobile consultant Chetan Sharma, and brought together a few hundred mobile pundits and industry folk. The missing ‘gorilla in the room’ was Apple – a company that featured in practically every presenter’s discussion. I found [...]
In an accident? Quick, grab the phone
Good use case in the Washington Post for mobiles as a way to speed up diagnosis and accelerate treatment. Physicians use photos from patients’ cellphones to deliver ‘mobile health’ The other day I got hit on the head by a big chunk of timber in a garage – and having the ability to send a [...]
AdMob reaps the benefits of simplicity
I don’t know Omar, but I’ve known employee number 2 at Admob Russell Buckley (one half of the MobHappy gang) - for a number of years. Wonderful result for him and the team, and a lesson for me. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking up fancy-schmancy new mobile advertising paradigms, most of which are gathering [...]
Mary Meeker finally gives mobile the thumbs up
Morgan Stanley Internet guru Mary Meeker presented her much-anticipated annual Internet trends talk at the Web2.0 Summit yesterday. This is the first time (she’s been at this about a decade) that she’s finally seen this to be the year of the mobile Internet, and spends most of the slides on that. Couldn’t agree more, in [...]
