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Internet Myth Number 2: Silicon Valley is the innovation leader
We have spent a lot of time here on excapite attempting to map what makes Silicon Valley so innovative. Is it the number of start-ups, the investors or the market leaders? But is the wrong question?...
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The future of mobile is… what’s disrupted the market leaders
Today most people talk about the success of the iPhone in terms of the Apps and Games (Think Scobelizer’s recent piece on why Elop is wrong about mobile sales) however this would suggest that the...
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Some thoughts on the Google wallet strategy
As well as adding few Billions and Millions to my last post Greg Pudewell was kind enough to get in touch and ask a few questions about the blog. For example Is there only one MobCon or multiple...
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So why did Nokia blink?
If you are TechCrunch follower you may have read Sarah Lacy’s piece earlier in the month on Yawn: How Did Big Tech Companies Turn into Big Boring Banks? It was an Op:ed piece on how the Big Tech Brands...
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Maybe it’s time to make that call?
Tomi Ahonen has been keeping us entertained with a series of posts on the Nokia sage. Everything from karaoke to an MBA meets cosmopolitan questionnaire. Next week I am anticipating the libretto to...
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There are no challenges in mobile, just sites not yet mobile optimised
I have Antoine RJ Wright to thank for the inspiration for this post. He has just retweeted a comment by Andrew Grill suggesting that “ …there are no challenges in mobile, just sites not yet mobile...
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It’s not what you play but how you play that matters
Today just a couple of mobile phone ads to illustrate what I mean by the mobile UX Design experience being all about creating activities that meld together the real world and the digital world. First...
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Is that a smartphone in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?
The headline on today’s post comes courtesy of a Tomi Ahonen retweet from a few weeks back. The line “Is that a smartphone in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?” is of course a word play on...
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So you think you can dance?
Bronwen Katsaros from 9 Muses has asked a simple question stemming from my last post on Glissification and its discontents: Game in gamification, but what is gliss?...
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The Googlerola Twitterstorm
On the day that Google makes its next play in the mobile handset market and transforms itself into Googlerola through the purchase Motorola there is much to speculate and comment on. Acquiring IP, the...
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How Alibaba profits from allowing you to browse with them but buy from others
I have stated repeatedly that the old media model is dead online simply because the old media advertising model of “Browse with us, Buy from them” had been replaced by the new Media Model of “Browse...
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How easy will it be for Facebook to profit from f-commerce?
After having a look earlier today at how Alibaba profits from allowing you to browse with them but buy from others I thought we could take a quick look at how easy it will be for Facebook to profit...
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Twitter vs. SMS vs. Facebook vs. Email in 2010
If you have been following the links back to Tomi Ahonen’s blog you’ll know that he is very keen on SMS as a mobile advertising platform. After all it is the killer iPhone App. So I thought it would be...
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How the iPhone and the App Store have changed the Mobile Convergence Value Chain
Let’s take a quick look at how the arrival of the iPhone fundamentally changed the Mobile Convergence [MobCon] Value Chain. Here is the original MobCon value chain as it was around the time of the...
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Some thoughts on why advertising has to avoid becoming integrated in the future
Mark Suster posted a relatively important piece on the future of advertising on TechCrunch over the weekend which you can now find posted on his blog. I say relatively important because when VC’s like...
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The global local mobile direct response platform
As I said when I first started writing this blog, there are many ways to cut the numbers if you want to explain just how disruptive the internet has been. Take advertising for example. If you want to...
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So what is the killer iPad app?
If the history of information technology has taught us one thing it is that there is the killer app that launches the platform and then there is the discovered app that revolutionizes the platform. For...
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So how much money can you make out of developing iPad apps?
Today there are over 80,000 iPad Apps and an estimated 250,000 iPad compatible iPhone Apps available for download in the App Store . Each day over 600 Apps are submitted to the App Store for approval....
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Will we Point, Click, Search, Scan, Swipe See, Sign or Touch the Future?
We noted late last year that there had been an explosion in emerging mobile payments platforms. Since that time we have seen a lot more announcements by the handset manufacturers, credit card...
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Has the competitive advantage of the Mobile Apps Store been over valued?
I was reading Sam Brodie’s post on the challenges he is facing as a brand architect operating within Nokia and it has left me wondering if we are now over estimating the value of the “ubiquitous” App...
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