Tale of two businesses: exciting vs. boring
Yesterday I visited two businesses: one exciting, Sliderocket, and one boring, Bluepulse. First, about Sliderocket, it’s a new presentation tool. Here is a video I shot with my cell phone yesterday...
View ArticleAT&T's CTO tells me all of Apple's secrets
Oh, I wish I could write that headline. I did interview AT&T’s CTO, John Donovan, on my Nokia cell phone today. We did talk about the 3G network that AT&T built. But he wouldn’t answer any...
View ArticleI'm a phone freak
Everywhere I go I carry three phones now: 1. iPhone. 2. Nokia N95. 3. Nokia N82. I also have a Blackjack II Windows Mobile smartphone that I occassionally carry. I have three separate SIMs, er, three...
View ArticleWhy Kyte.tv will kill Qik and Flixwagon in cell phone video space
I just wrote a guest post over on TechCrunch where I cover why Kyte.tv is going to win in the cell phone video space.
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The Silicon Valley VC Disease
Yesterday at the Mobile Web Wars event (here’s video of that), held right before the TechCrunch party, David Hornik, partner at August Capital (he’s the host of the TechCrunch party) told the audience...
View ArticleHalf an hour of mobile goodness
Last Friday I had Sumit Agarwal, product manager on Google’s mobile team on my show, which is about how the Internet is changing work, WorkFastTV. Damn, that guy knows his mobile! In half an hour we...
View ArticleMy first Qik from my iPhone
Yesterday I visited Qik.com’s headquarters and they loaded a very early version of their iPhone streaming video app onto my iPhone. Here’s the first video I did with it. Note that this is NOT a...
View ArticleQik supports Blackberry for live video
Funny, I couldn’t Qik this video. Why? It was embargoed until tonight. So, I used a Flip camera instead of my Nokia phone. But Qik is moving fast to support the most handsets out there. For the people...
View ArticleSmartphone competition: It's too late for Nokia and Microsoft, but not too...
Everyone is still talking cell phones. Just visit TechMeme today and you’ll see lots of news from HTC, I’ve already seen some claims that it has a “Palm killer.” Hint: it’s not about the device, it’s...
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Google Making Powerful Moves
Google has been doing a lot of stuff for us lately. Last week Google shipped “Latitude” which lets you track your friends and lets them track you (at least if you have a phone that works with the...
View ArticleRecommendations for the Twitter crowd: GoodRec
Quick, you’re at an awesome restaurant, want to tell everyone about it, but only have a mobile phone and don’t want to bang out a long review. How do you a quick review? GoodRec has the answer. They...
View ArticleDid Adobe snub Apple with FlashPlayer 10, Palm Pre, and Development Fund...
Just now Adobe announced lots of mobile phone news. More on that in a second. But what wasn’t announced? No iPhone support for Flash yet. What else was announced? FlashPlayer 10 will ship on the Palm...
View ArticleSXSW 2009 will be known as the "SMS & location explosion SXSW"
This week tons of people were asking me “what’s the ‘Twitter’ of this year’s SXSW conference. See, two years ago at SXSW Twitter exploded onto the scene. Looking back at this year’s conference (pretty...
View ArticleGlympse vs. Google Latitude in location sharing battle
If you look over to the right side of my blog you’ll see a Google Latitude component. What does that do? It shares my location with you. Why is that cool? Because now you’ll be able to watch as I head...
View ArticleWatch the Google anthill move toward social and real time
This week is a key moment in Google’s life. It is being challenged by a change in the ecosystem. We’ve seen this happen with other companies before. Remember Microsoft in 1994-1996? It responded to...
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