The slides below are for a project that I have been working on in the past two weeks for one of my classes. I have really been fascinated by the growth of the mobile internet and what implications may result from always-on, constantly available internet access. How will users change their internet usage behavior, how [...]
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Monetization of Mobile Platform
Posted in Mobile, Monetization on April 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
How Will (Is) Mobile Internet Access Change(ing) Our Lives
Posted in Mobile on April 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Morgan Stanley’s latest April 2010 internet trend report predicts that the number of mobile internet users will exceed desktop internet users in the next five years globally, and thus mobile devices will become the next big platforms for people to connect to the internet. Josh Levison from IPG Emerging Media Lab has also painted a [...]
Foursquare Fights Fake Check-In
Posted in Gaming, Geolocation, Mobile, tagged Fake Check In, Foursquare, Gaming, Geolocation, Location Based Mobile App on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today, Foursquare released a post in their blog announcing that they were determined to play the game the hard way. From now on, they will grant points only to the check-ins for which they can verify the users’ location through GPS data sent from people’s phones or “through other tricks” for phones that do not [...]