February 22, 2010 – 6:10 am
Right now it seems every company wants to build an iPhone app. Yet given that 60,000 Android phones ship every day, one has to wonder how much longer Apple will have a lock on shiny object syndrome du jour (image by Andrew Mason).
That’s roughly 5.4 million a quarter, and the numbers continue accelerating [...]
January 25, 2010 – 2:54 am
Image by fotoboer
This morning I am speaking at the first ever Social Media Breakfast in Washington, DC. The featured topic is, “What trends or predictions do you believe will prevail? How can we be visionaries in a space as dynamic as social media?” The answer? Get mobile now.
From the incredible outpouring of donations for Haiti [...]
January 4, 2010 – 8:03 am
by Geoff Livingston
Every smart internet marketer and company wants to deploy mobile apps, starting with that hot and shiny iPhone app. Yet the cost of developing iPhone applications (as well as applications for the Blackberry and Android platforms) can be cost prohibitive. AppMakr changed the iPhone application paradigm today with the launch of its [...]
December 28, 2009 – 8:10 am
War was declared a long time ago, but now the battle finally begins in earnest. 2010 marks the year that Google Android and its many manufacturer and carrier partners took on Apple and its exclusive wireless carriers. The final prize? The primary determinant of the third web boom, the mobile Internet.
All the other handset [...]
This weekend, Washington, DC area internet developer Viget Labs hosted iPhoneDevCampDC, an unconference about all things iPhone Apps (full photo set here). I went expressly to understand the latest hot, shiny object from a communicator’s perspective. How does this tactic fit into the mix?
One thing that’s important to note off the bat: It’s not [...]
One thing seems clearer and clearer. Mobile and portable media continues to become a staple of online promotion and marketing. Worldwide acceleration of mobile smartphones – to the tune of 130% increase in sales over the next few years – is driving the shift (image by in veritas lux).
Just yesterday, I read an outstanding [...]
The mobile Internet revolution continues to accelerate, fueled by the latest smartphone releases from Palm, Apple and Blackberry. It’s not so important whether people prefer Blackberry, Apple or Other. What does matter is the functionality these phones bring to the market. With computing capability, broadband Internet, and GPS location ID, smartphones are capturing market interest [...]
By Geoff Livingston
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Posted in Social Networks, mobile
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Also tagged android, applications, BrightKite, FourSquare, gypsii, Loopt, mobile, Nokia, Palm Pre, social
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Well, I finally made it to sxsw. In addition
to phenomenal discussions and socializing (me thinks the real purpose of sxsw), I came to Austin to garner knowledge on the Future of the Internet.
Why? Because social media is maturing, and staying on the edge is critical. To help, I moved to new mobile [...]
By Geoff Livingston
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Posted in Internet Marketing, communications, market research
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Also tagged adobe, android, centro, duture, flash, internet, mini 9, mobile, sxsw
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