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Worldwide Facebook Mobile Usage Up 300% In Last 12 Months

INSIDE FACEBOOK — Today at the Nokia World conference in Stuttgart, Facebook’s Director of Mobile, Henri Moissinac, announced that Facebook’s worldwide mobile audience just crossed 65 million active users. To put that in perspective, that’s nearly 25% of all of Facebook’s total worldwide reach – and four times as many people using Facebook Mobile than [...]


Facebook Mobile – carriers want less data

To that end, Moissinac said that, for example, all photos on Facebook Mobile are low-resolution. And when dealing with carriers based in emerging countries with 2G networks, Facebook can make photos smaller or bury them within the app altogether so they’re not displayed when a user first logs on. But going forward, it will likely [...]


GigaOm on Sony Ericsson’s make.believe marketing

Sony Ericsson is hoping that a brand makeover can somehow heal its critically wounded handset business. The joint venture between Ericsson and Sony said today that it will adopt Sony’s “make.believe” tagline in its marketing campaigns to “reinforce its entertainment credentials” with consumers GigaOm Why Sony Ericsson Is Living in a Land of Make.Believe . [...]


Melbourne CHISIG Event – Mobile User Experience

On Monday, July 20, Oliver Wiedlich will be presenting on the mobile user experience followed by a panel discussion including myself, Oliver, Julian Wong and Rod Farmer. 6-8pm at Horse Bazaar, which is just behind that car with the boot open: View Larger Map Should be outstanding – here’s the full details at the Human [...]


Little Springs Mobile Design Newsletter

Just became aware of the Little Springs Mobile Design Newsletter. Great bunch of mobile design references; I particularly liked Annika Brinkmann‘s mobile design ideas and explorations.


Mobile Banking Customer Experience

Jodie and I had a short presentation at a day-long conference organised by Retail Banking Review: Customer Experience Excellence in Financial Services. We talked about mobile, as did a lot of the attendees in the round table discussions that took place. The main questions were around which platform to focus on, which features and functionality [...]


Motorola meets Android

Motorola seeks to hire up to 300 Google Android developers


Visual Interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web (VISSW 2009)

This looks interesting – a workshop exploring interface developments that respond to the shift of the web from a predominantly read-only medium to a read/write. …the need for intelligent and visual human interfaces to this evolving Web is not limited simply to the modalities of searching and browsing (important as these are). As the Web [...]


Addition to “Australia’s top 10 mobile moguls”

Smart Company have published a list of Australia’s Top 10 Mobile Moguls. The list doesn’t actually include moguls in the traditional sense (power within an industry and having accumulated significant wealth from the industry – src), more like the people who’ve worked hard to pioneer mobile industry innovation and standards. Great to see Oliver Weidlich [...]