6 posts tagged “mobile industry review”
All round good bloke and friend of this blog, Mr Ben Smith, has come up with a jolly useful tool. It's for peeps in the UK who are (web) savvy enough to use Twitter and who are unlucky enough to have to use the country's God-awful train service!
Anyway, it is a cool service and um, useful! (You can tell I'm typing this up very late, can't you?) Despite how useful it normally is, it's only as good as the info fed into it and um, this made me laugh when I was catching up on tweets earlier...
All the work Ben put in could simply have been done in seconds had he just set it to auto post 'Disruption possible' every tweet, every time for every train company! And I'm so glad I blogged this as until now I had no idea that I could narrow down my train company selection... d'oh!
Over on Mobile Industry Review, Ewan has posted about ShoZu's upload traffic being up 45% during #uksnow!
I wasn't using ShoZu myself earlier but I was qiking it and taking lots of pics to boot on my N95 8GB. Only thing that stopped me from taking any more was the worry of what could happen to my snow covered phone!
...and yesterday, and possibly the day before (heck, I should've just said 'week'!)
Mobile Industry Review PhonepayPlus: The dinner lady of the UK mobile industry
CBBC Tough new rules for phone pests
Mobile Entertainment PhonepayPlus 'Why we had to act against abuses'
and Mobile Entertainment again... New rules for UK mobile providers
And if you want expert analysis, well placed cynicism, some laughs and lots of dirt undug I wholeheartedly recommend The Scream's 'General Telco' forum here
I got papped at the last MGoL so I papped back this time. So there Donna (from WOM World)!
The host with the most... Mr Whatley(dude)...
And um, ones I took on my ill fated walk to Waterloo in time for last train (maybe had I got a taxi, maybe had I not stopped to take pictures, maybe had I realised that there is no service after 1.05am from Waterloo - damn you National Rail Enquiries website and your promise of a 2.38am train!)...
Although I've yet to cash the 'goodwill' cheque I received from mBlox (I can't be arsed to go all the way into town for a tenner) that hasn't stopped me donating the money to a good cause (or two). So I've ponied up ten squid for two prize draw tickets for a competition my friends over at Mobile Industry Review are running.
Whilst the two chosen charities, Childline and the UN Foundation, are fine causes, I've got to admit it's not an entirely selfless act on my part. I figure the odds are quite good and the prizes should be too! Although I'm now going to make my chances slimmer by encouraging my readers to enter by following this link:
Yes, as strange as that seems there are some that I admire. One being Mark Curtis - CEO of Handmade Mobile (they're the guys responsible for Flirtomatic).
Actually admire might be a tad strong, I'm only going on an exchange between him, Ewan MacLeod and myself over at Mobile Industry Review, what Tomi T Ahonen said in his Amazon review of Mark's book 'Distraction – Being Human in the Digital Age' and a podcast interview MIR's Ewan did recently (comment section being where the exchange took place).
That book does look interesting (hint, hint) even if it is now 3 years old. Remember mobile years are like dog years, they're not the same as human years. Three mobile years may as well be a decade. Things handsets do now simply weren't possible back then, so if the synopsis and review are anything to go by Mark is some kind of sage!
Incidentally, just before I typed this I was chatting to a nice young lady (I'm not just saying that as she told me she'd be checking out my blog tomorrow, honest!) on Flirtomatic on the E71 WOM World kindly sent me. I'd say using that site is the best way to give the qwerty keyboard a thorough workout!
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