November 2007

Facebook comes to Windows Mobile

November 26, 2007

It's no secret that Facebook users are increasingly adopting mobile technologies.  Just recently, for example, Facebook announced mobile API's, and native Facebook implementations on BlackBerry and iPhone smartphone devices became available. Since the summer, Facebook mobile users have surged to 27% of the Facebook community as well.    Microsoft may have trumped everyone with the announcement of a Facebook SDK for [...]

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The "uplifting" Canadian auto business

November 26, 2007

Auto manufacturers in Canada are clearly getting desperate.  This morning's Globe and Mail came with an 8 page propaganda piece advertising supplement to explain why Canadians pay more for cars than Americans do. With headlines like The pitfalls of price matching and Why things cost more in Canada, this piece was a regular comedy festival.  Some of the [...]

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Mobile VoIP, the new blue hue?

November 26, 2007

I got up yesterday morning to the announcement that Janice was going to paint the family room.  My typically male response was, "Why? I like the paint in the family room."  After all, there was no structural or mechanical reason to change the paint…   Within a very short time it was clear that I wasn't going to dissuade her.  [...]

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Facebook Market Research Secrets

November 25, 2007

Over the last week I've published a number of different demographic slices of the Facebook Market.  Facebook makes it easy to do this.  You don't need to buy data from Comscore or Nielsen.  You can simply collect the segment data you need directly from Facebook. Here's how to do this, using the Facebook Advertising Platform. [...]

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The real value of VoxCall? Not knowing…

November 24, 2007

A few days ago I wrote about Voxalot's new VoxCall application for Facebook. Since then, a number of people have contacted me using VoxCall.  Invariably, the quality has been superb.  For example: Yesterday, Andy Abramson called me.  He called from the Nokia N810 via WiFi.  WiFi SIP to VoxCall SIP to Truphone SIP and then onto the [...]

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Falling apart with the Robotic Chair

November 24, 2007

Last Wednesday morning, as guests of Waterloo entrepreneur Randall Howard, Howard and myself had the opportunity to meet Max Dean, the creator of the Robotic Chair.  Dean's Robotic Chair is on display at the Kitchener-Waterloo Children's Museum.  Performance art or sculpture, the Robotic Chair really defies categorization.  At first glance, it appears to be an [...]

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2/3 of Facebook users aren't (necessarily) women.

November 23, 2007

Facebook has given marketers an powerful new tool for segmenting audience.  It's called Facebook Ads.  Once the "Create Ad" button has been pushed, potential advertisers can slice and dice audience any way they like.  As an advertisers tool it's fabulous.  As a market research tool, it's a gold mine.  Paul Francis, author of Travels With [...]

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Bell Canada announces unlimited data

November 21, 2007

Bell Canada has some life in it yet.  The Toronto Star reports this morning that, in a dramatic move for the Canadian market, Bell will start offering unlimited data plans for the HTC Touch for just $7/month.  Rather than offer this plan to everyone, Bell is restricting it to consumers only. Business users still get socked [...]

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Hands-on with the Nokia N81

November 21, 2007

For the last few days I've been carrying Nokia's answer to iPhone with me — the 8G N81 entertainment phone.  Piano black with brushed aluminum, and a slick slider, it feels solid and comfortable in the hand.  Moreover, it's stuffed with finishing touches like the individual buttons that illuminate on demand for particular applications.  The [...]

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Some VoIP applications ARE failing on Facebook!

November 20, 2007

Stuart Henshall surfaced a couple of links this morning showing that VoIP apps are failing on Facebook.  I'm not sure how iotum ended up on that list, since we're not actually a VoIP app, but you know Stuart's absolutely right and the outcome was predictable.  The vast majority of VoIP applications on Facebook are simple [...]

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