http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/ en-us Copyright 2007 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:39:22 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss It's not even close to being massmarket yet, but geotagging is one of the technologies I'm personally most interested in, especially if it gets automated enough that the people using it don't even need to know what geotagging is to... http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/shozu_to_support_geotagging_fo.html http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/shozu_to_support_geotagging_fo.html Mobile phone apps User Generated Content Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:39:22 +0000 Another firm I was pleased to catch up with at 3GSM was Clicmobile. The company builds cross-platform communities with social networking and user-generated content elements for clients. As an example, Clicmobile powers Yootribe, a French social networking service aimed at... http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/3gsm_2007_clicmobile_on_why_mo.html http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/3gsm_2007_clicmobile_on_why_mo.html Mobile phone apps Social networking sites Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:01:29 +0000 When 3 launched its X-Series service, the buzz was all about putting the big Web 2.0 sites on your phone. Conspicuous by their absence were any deals with social networking providers however. That's starting to change, indirectly. 3 has signed... http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/3_finally_brings_social_networ.html http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/3_finally_brings_social_networ.html Mobile phone apps Social networking sites Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:49:36 +0000 A Nokia venture called Nokia Ad Service indicates that Nokia believes it has a big role to play in the mobile advertising market. It is apparently "bringing to market a solution that connects global advertising with mobile publishers". It's hard... http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/nokia_to_enter_mobile_advertis.html http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/nokia_to_enter_mobile_advertis.html Advertising Mobile phone apps Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:09:30 +0000 Many people know Hands-On Mobile for its mobile games - the company has sold millions of downloads of its World Poker Tour game, and has also released a stream of games based on Marvel superhero characters. However, the company is... http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/3gsm_2007_funkysexycool_mobile.html http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/3gsm_2007_funkysexycool_mobile.html Mobile phone apps User Generated Content Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:17:38 +0000 Yospace could be described as the poster child for the mobile user-generated-content brigade. The company's video-sharing services for 3 (See Me TV) and O2 (Look At Me) have been hugely successful, while recently Yospace was bought by Emap as part... http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/3gsm_2007_yospace_on_mobile_yo.html http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/3gsm_2007_yospace_on_mobile_yo.html Mobile phone apps User Generated Content Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:39:38 +0000 TechCrunch reports that Aniboom, a "cartoons meets YouTube" site, has raised $4.5m of funding. Mashable writes about Who's On My Page, a MySpace tracker that will log other users' visits to a page. They claim that they can circumvent MySpace's... http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/web_20_news_aniboom_whos_on_my.html http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/web_20_news_aniboom_whos_on_my.html Web 2.0 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:27:28 +0000 Mobile blogging isn't going to be about text. Instead, it’s going to be about photos and video that you upload semi-automatically from your phone as you take them, with the bare minimum of words required. Of course, you might go... http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/3gsm_2007_motorolas_mobile_blo.html http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/3gsm_2007_motorolas_mobile_blo.html Blogs Mobile phone apps User Generated Content Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:56:14 +0000 You can’t swing a cat at 3GSM this year without hitting 17 mobile social networking companies, all claiming to be the next MySpace, and all claiming to be unique. Time will tell. Cerkle is one of the more interesting examples... http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/3gsm_2007_cerkle_mobile_social.html http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/3gsm_2007_cerkle_mobile_social.html Brit start-ups Mobile phone apps Social networking sites Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:22:28 +0000 It was only a matter of time before someone came out with a working model of mobile mash-ups of some description. Mobio Networks did it at the DEMO 07 show, and there's a good video online showing how its platform... http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/mobio_the_coolest_mobile_20_co.html http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/mobio_the_coolest_mobile_20_co.html Mobile phone apps Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:21:50 +0000 Next week, I'll be sprinting around the 3GSM show in Barcelona, catching up with the latest mobile innovations. Some press releases are already dribbling out before the show gets underway, including one from Enquire. The technology sounds good though. Enquire... http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/3gsm_2007_enquires_mobile_20_v.html http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/3gsm_2007_enquires_mobile_20_v.html Mobile phone apps User Generated Content Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:14:20 +0000 Seeing as one of the main subjects for Techscape is Web 2.0 going mobile, we were bound to prick up our ears at LaNetro Zed's announcement that, yes, it's taking Web 2.0 mobile. The company runs the Club Zed mobile... http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/interview_lanetro_zed_on_its_n.html http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/interview_lanetro_zed_on_its_n.html Interviews Mobile phone apps Social networking sites User Generated Content Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:01:25 +0000 It's been quite a week for Vodafone, which is making a strong play to show 3 that more than one operator can play this Mobile 2.0 game. Having signed deals with MySpace and eBay earlier in the week, now it's... http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/vodafone_makes_youtube_mobile.html http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/vodafone_makes_youtube_mobile.html Mobile phone apps User Generated Content Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:25:19 +0000 TechCrunch reports on Movers 2.0, "a simple website for tracking 'Web 2.0' traffic trends. The website uses Alexa data." Also Mosoto, an application that works on top of Facebook and allows chat and file sharing. TechCrunch also write about Yahoo!... http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/web_20_news_movers_20_mosoto_y.html http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/web_20_news_movers_20_mosoto_y.html Web 2.0 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:52:47 +0000 First the Sunday Times, now the Mirror has revamped its website, with claims of new Web 2.0 features. Except in this case, it meets more of your expectations from that phrase. The site, which went live today, has more video,... http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/the_daily_mirror_goes_web_20_w.html http://shinymedia.headshift.com/techscape/2007/02/the_daily_mirror_goes_web_20_w.html Web 2.0 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:41:33 +0000