Posts Tagged mobile web

The Mobile Internet Pinned Down

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Mobile Web Africa – continued

About two weeks ago I spent a few very enjoyable days in Nairobi Kenya. I was invited to speak at the Mobile Web East Africa conference, another in the series of “Mobile Web Africa” conferences put on by the very impressive All Amber, driven by Matthew Dawes. Here’s my slideshow. Mobile Web East Africav2 Ms07 [...]

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The impact of smartphones on the development of mobile media

The smartphone is rapidly accelerating the convergence of computing and telephony and taking the phone as a converged music player, gaming device, camera, GPS navigator, web browser and wallet to another level. It is also beginning to disrupt some cosy legacy marketing value chains, for example, in the traditional retail space savvy smartphone owners are [...]

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The RSA mobile media landscape in 2009 – a forecast

{This post was also published at bizcommunity.com on 15 January 2009} With the large developed economies likely to remain in deep recession during 2009 and with a significant slow down in South African economic growth it seems likely that overall ad spend growth in South Africa will be nowhere near the usual double digit media [...]

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More on the mobile web opportunity for publishers

Following my last post, which was also headlined at www.bizcommunity.com, I have had some interesting direct and indirect reactions. That is great because it was my intention to stimulate some debate and discussion around the potential for the mobile web. I was struck though by how many commentators seemed to be stuck on my actual [...]

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The mobile web: an untapped opportunity for publishers

I had the opportunity to speak at the “Bookmarks” breakfast workshop (at the invitation of the South African Online Publishers Association (OPA)) last week both in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Both events were well attended by both the existing online publisher community (both the large and the smaller players) as well as some specialist digital [...]

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