Courtesy of Michael Ball:
“Is there a market for feature-length films on the mobile phone?” I asked Tomas Gewecke, new President of Digital Distribution for Warner Bros., at the US Mobile Entertainment Forum Conference MEFCON last week.
You’d think, by the audience reaction, that I just confessed to running over his dog.
Warner cut a deal recently with [...]
A company called MegaPhone have just launched a public video game on MTV’s giant screen billboard in Times Square. The game is designed to bring people together in public spaces and you interact using your mobile phone as a controller. Jury Hahn is the Korean born face behind this new public spectacle and she’s profiled [...]
The world had real-time news about China’s massive earthquake as victims dashed out Twitter text messages while it took place, in what has been touted as evidence of micro-blogging outshining mainstream news, claims Newslimited media potral News.com.au.
As the earth shook with tragic consequences, people in the parts of China that felt the quake used their mobile [...]
A much publicised patent application published in December 2007 revealed that Apple had explored allowing handheld owners (such as the iPhone) to place orders from local stores. The system would, for example, allow customers to order a drink with the press of a button on their iPhone which would then notify them when their order [...]
LonelyGirl15 actress Jessica Rose is making a comeback to the computer-screen with a new web series called Blood Cell,produced by digital studio 60Frames. This new series is not a faked vlog but a well-produced murder mystery. Part of the current onslaught of professionally produced web content with a hyper-syndication (the viral distribution of content through [...]
Following on from the watercooler post last week on Second Life running on a Samsung phone it is interesting how in the last month we have virtual worlds appearing on mobile devices at every turn - iPhone etc: below. Will May 08 be known as the month Web 3.0 (the real time, social virtual world [...]
The Second Life client is now on Samsung mobile handsets, allowing access to the Second Life virtual world whenever and wherever-without wires! It includes a ‘mixed blogging’ platform that allows users to post their blog simultaneously in the real world AND the virtual world of Second Life. Users can also have ‘mixed world’ experiences by communicating with avatar friends [...]
This is the first of a 4 part report, by Michael Ball, who attended this years CTIA Wireless Media Conference in Las Vegas this week. As his furthur reports come in, Ill post them up for you.
let’s start with some intriguing stats: According to the panelists–which included mobile execs from MTV Networks, Discovery Channel, MobiTV, [...]
Walt Mossberg, the Wall Streets Journal very well connected editor of “All Things Digital”, was invited to the Finnish Embassy in Washington DC this week for a talk organised by Andy Plesser of beet.tv fame.
His comments on the future of online media is extremely interesting especially his comments on slow broadband. He also dropped a [...]
“There’s no question that all my synapses were firing in the virtual world and in real reality.” Margot Knight, alternate-reality game heroine
OK this is old news as far as Watercooler timescales are concerned, June 2007, slaps wrist. But as I have just stumbled across it, worth blogging about for reference, because not many have - [...]
Now you can wear your social network (or your heart) on your sleeve - literally. This is what you do:
1. Buy a set of threads from the Get Wickd clothing label
2. Download the special Get Wickd software onto your mobile
3. Go outside and start looking for other people wearing Get Wickd bar-coded clothes
4. Take [...]
You’ve got to hand it to Nokia (and the agencies who realise their campaigns). This latest campaign for the N82 from Sweden’s farfar enlists the “talents” of an “artist” called Stavros is undeniably silly but irresistable. The passionate Stavros exhorts you to help him “paint the world” starting in Rome which, by his reckoning [...]
We have been using our iPhones to do some strange things here at LAMP over the past months. Most of the coolest apps come from the very active community of developers already delivering some great apps via the installer application that runs on unlocked iPhones. Some of us are remarkably running PlayStation 1, Nintendo Entertainment [...]
