After watching this video you will be excited about what Google Maps Navigation can do for you — for free if you have one of their new phones. Then you’ll feel sad for the kids at Garmin and TomTom because of the dump their valuations took. But don’t feel too bad, one of those companies will most likely be Apple’s next partner, to enable Apple to compete with this amazing...
I was recently given a Blackberry for work. I got the Blackberry Curve to insure that I would be able to use the whrrl mobile application and other similar applications. I was excited to download Skyfire and the Firefox mobile browser . . . and was quickly disappointed. Those applications are not available for the Blackberry. I’ve been blogging about the iPhone recently and have see many...
When I blogged from the MMA Consumer Best Practices Industry Forum back in January, I felt like I had stepped into a circus that was in the middle of a performance but needed to move to a new location at the same time. The iPhone had just been released and it was not really discussed by the attendees as much as I thought it would have been. Of course this was not the focus of the conference so it...
On March 6th, KPCB announced the creation of a $100 million dollar fund, aptly named iFund which is aimed at funding the development of applications for the iPhone. KPCB is the also the firm that funded Google, which coincidentally launched the Android project several months ago with the goal of creating an open platform so that developers could create applications for the mobile phone. The race...
In early November Google introduced Android; the Open Handset Alliance with the declaration that in the future, every phone will be the Gphone. The goal is to open up the mobile market and allow for mobile devices to offer more robust Internet based offerings similar to i-mode in Japan. Borrowing a page out of what was originally Salesforce’s playbook, the open platform has become the answer...
Lately I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about, and explaining, the incredible marketing tool that Google is currently building. It’s a behavioral advertising model that will extend into your PC and mobile phone (and eventually radio and TV). I’m also sure that Google will utilize “peer recommendation†as a key element to behavioral advertising. Behavioral advertising can be...