Whom should Mobile Social Networks partner with in Mobile Advertising?

The Mobile Advertising Ecosystem There are several business models for Mobile Social Networks (MSN). Asking users to pay for either community membership or for premium content like virtual goods are two examples. Lately, a few players have been experimenting with different premium models. Nevertheless, it seems to me that our market segment still favours the weiterlesen…

Learntec 2009, Karlsruhe, Germany

Die 5te Mobile Learning Arena Heute hat Learntec 2009 ihre Pforten für die Besucher geöffnet und ich wollte es mir nicht entgehen lassen, einige ‚alte‘ Bekannte aus dem Bildungssektor wieder zu treffen. Und da ich freundlicherweise noch eine Freikarte von Sandro Mengel (FernUniversität in Hagen) bekommen hatte, habe ich mich auf dem Weg nach Karlsruhe weiterlesen…

The Future of Mobile Social Networks

Insights on Mobile Social Networking When we at Peperoni started to build our first solution for the mobile web back in 2000, I saw the business potential of mobile data technologies, but I must admit that today I am pleasantly surprised and very glad about the technological and economic progress in our mobile industry. And weiterlesen…

W3C Social Networking Workshop (2nd day), Barcelona, Spain

Real Networking around virtual Social Networks The second day at the W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking started with three lectures; ‚Adding Context to Location and Adapting the user experience according to context‘ by Julian Pye (Vodafone Group R&D Germany), ‚Sentient Computing meets Social Networking‘ by Simon Hay (University of Cambridge) and ‚Capturing, Using, weiterlesen…

W3C Social Networking Workshop (1st day), Barcelona, Spain

Does Social Networks need Standardization? I joined the W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking in Barcelona/Spain, with the high level goal of bringing together the world experts on social networking design, management and operation 🙂 After Registration and welcome by Christine Perey and Dominique Hazael-Massieux the workshop started with four Presentations on Appropriate weiterlesen…

City trip to Gothenburg, Sweden

Christmas 2008 in cold Sweden Another trip to Gothenburg in Sweden in the christmas time… If you are in Sweden you definitly should try some of the typical pastries like ‚Semlor‚ (a sweet bread bun filled with almond paste and whipped cream), ‚Kanelbulle‚ (a cinnamon bun), ‚Lussebulle‚ (traditional Lucia bun made with saffron and served weiterlesen…