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Re: Building A Real Mobile Web

deancollins — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:02:09 -0000

Dont forget you then have the freqency issues between various countries and their GSm netwroks.

eg. I'd like to buy a HTC Touch Pro 2 available in the uk the last few months.... but the frequencies for the AT&T gsm network are different.

Re: Does Anyone Use Chrome?

deancollins — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:58:39 -0000

on your website Fred - hardly a 'representative' site with the number of techies you have on your site.

IE (in various flavors) still leads the world be a very very large margin.

Re: The Mobile Challenge

deancollins — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:21:04 -0000

I did a quick search on my pc for some facts to back up my statement - yes it's out of date being 4th quarter 2008 and i could go and research 1st quarter 2009 but you get the point.....

Company 4Q08 Sales (1,000s) - MarketShare (%)
Nokia 118,791.0 - 37.7
Samsung 57,517.9 - 18.3
LG 28,140.9 - 8.9
SonyEricsson 23,554.1 - 7.5
Motorola 21,700.1 - 6.9
Others 65,003.8 - 20.7
TOTAL 314,707.8 100.0
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=904729

See that section for 'Others' at 65m handsets in Q4 2008....thats where Apple and the iPhone go, but they are also sharing it with HTC, etc etc

lol so Nokia ships 118 million handsets in Q4 2008 and you think 'they are just in europe'.

iPhone is a blip on the mobile timeline, heck i remember when the Motorola startac was 'it'.

Stop living in an echo chamber..... it's a good practise.

Cheers,
Dean

Re: The Mobile Challenge

deancollins — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:51:38 -0000

ha ha, you dont know your mobile market very well, nokia ships more handsets in a quarter than apple does in a year. they have a massive share in europe, india, asia etc etc.

yes iphone is 'neat' but it's very usa centric and globally still a small percentage.

stop reading admod reports....it's all BS. start researching handset shipping numbers if you want a more accurate picture.

Re: The Mobile Challenge

deancollins — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:39:18 -0000

> "Think globally" might be a catchy motto but
> it's not an easily attainable strategy"

I guess when you are not looking for the opportunities thats a 100% correct statement.

Guess Apple should stop trying to export their iPhones and Nokia better stick to selling phones in Finland.

Re: The Mobile Challenge

deancollins — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:46:37 -0000

$100m isn't that much relatively considering smartphones is a prevalent device most people use (eg should be in comparison to a device like television) + I really doubt most VC's have spent their 'load' yet (ha ha 5 companies in 12 months what a joke http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/kle...).

Also you thinking is flawed

"A killer app on the iphone is likely to be a killer app on an Android device and vice versa".

Also

"A killer banking app for Bank of America is likely to also be a killer app for Allianz Dresdner bank".

Expand your mind.... think globally - can you imagine if the Australian CSIRO scientists who invented wi-fi thought "Australian Only"?

Cheers,
Dean Collins
www.Cognation.net

Re: Bandwidth envy

deancollins — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:27:17 -0000

i'd pay more for fiber.... but living in manhattan i'm stuck with a monopoly and only one provider :(

Re: World Domination: The iPhone is #1 in Japan

deancollins — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:50:50 -0000

ha ha ha - get some real research bozo.

i cant believe you get paid to write this.

Re: Bring the world to your event

deancollins — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:04:42 -0000

yes but lots of times the panel 'deserved' it to go sideways.

....if you talk crap on a panel be prepared for someone smarter, wiser and younger to call you on it.

It's part of holding yourself out on any topic as an 'expert'

Cheers,
Dean Collins
www.Cognation.net

Re: The Mobile Challenge

deancollins — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:02:08 -0000

My Question for you Vladimir...... why develop only for the USA? it's such a small market globally.

oh snap i hear all the Apple fan boys getting excited already.

My point being that there are lots of mobile os's and lots of countries.

Now that China Mobile has opened up their app store to their 500m users are any of you going to be submitting your apps for international consumption?

http://www.mmarket.com/

More comments here http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/www...

Cheers,
Dean Collins
www.Cognation.net

Re: Twitter Grows "Uncomfortable" With The Use Of The Word Tweet In Applications (Robin Wauters/TechCrunch)

deancollins — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:35:00 -0000

I use the word twitter in my product http://www.MyTwitterButler.com

So sue me.

Cheers,
Dean

Re: Confirmed: Second Life, online adult games to banned outright in Australia

deancollins — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:33:20 -0000

Woke up this morning to see that Australian politicians are on a tear and are proposing to ban SL and WOW to all Australians.

http://laurelpapworth.com/australia-bans-filter...

Below is my comment to their proposal. Time to find new jobs you dinosaurs.

ha ha the internetz is dead to Australians, shame the pollies haven't worked out that even the most brain dead internet user can get around their filters.
Time for a "Pirate Party"/"EFF" style political membership organisation for the Australian federal givernment so that over tea and crumpets someone of their stature can take them to one side and point out they are living in a fairy land.
My recommendation is start a non taxable charity and run on this platform "Laurel Papworth for Presidentz of the Internetz".

Cheers,
Dean

Re: 2008/11/18/how-to-auto-follow-people-on-twitter/

deancollins — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:14:10 -0000

but they aren't random. following users based on keywords is a way to 'sort' out people you might want to follow.
This is exactly what i use http://www.MyTwitterButler.com to do but from a desktop so faster than a web service (20,000 calls per hour instead of 100 api calls).

cheers,
Dean

Re: http://mixergy.com/how-99designs-built-a-5-million-business-in-16-months-with-matt-mickiewicz/

deancollins — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:29:24 -0000

99designs has been around for far longer than 16 months.

having said that good resource. I've had a number of sites built for me at 99designs including http://www.Cognation.net and http://www.LiveBaseballChat.com

Cheers,
Dean

Re: 12 Reasons Why Google Wave will Change the Web

deancollins — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:27:28 -0000

great writeup - i'm having difficulties trying to find 'new' information for updates at @WaveAppReview

What interest me is how do people monetise 3rd party robots http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/wav...

Really want to understand what billing mechanisms are available to developers for charging for Robots and Front End Clients but also private Wave Servers.

Re: Google Wave: A Complete Guide

deancollins — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:15:56 -0000

Does anyone know if Google are going to allow 3rd part Robot developers to charge for their Wave Robots?

Is the Wave App Store going to be the next big thing for application developers?

We were tossing ideas around at BarCampNYC4 on the weekend and came up with a ton of valuable robotos in a short brainstorming session but without a way for the third party developers to monetise those apps.......

What do you think?

Cheers,
Dean Collins
www.WaveAppReview.com

Re: 2008/11/18/how-to-auto-follow-people-on-twitter/

deancollins — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:09:02 -0000

If you understand the difference between using a web app and a desktop app then you might want to check out www.MyTwitterButler.com

Does the same as Twollow in that it can auto follow twitter users based on 4 keywords per account (can run multiple accounts at the same time) but is run from a desktop so you dont need to hand over your user name and passsword.

Cheers,
Dean

Re: Finally Got to Use the Nokia Ovi Store: Initial Impressions - mediabistro.com: MobileContentToday

deancollins — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:04:53 -0000

When is someone going to open up a multiplatform mobile appstore?

Ex.
http://iphone.mobileappstore.com
and
http://windows.mobileappstore.com

If a particular manufacturer wanted something they could set up http://samsung.mobileappstore.com

what do you think?

Cheers,
Dean

Re: Why Isn't Paypal More Successful?

deancollins — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:43:06 -0000

I use paypal BUT i still hate how the 'manipulated' checking accounts earlier on like they own you as a customer rather than you giving them a privilege to access you account.

Whats surprising is google checkout hasn't grown faster either.

Cheers,
Dean Collins
www.Cognation.net

Re: Term Sheet Reality - Call Us If You’re Confused

deancollins — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:59:45 -0000

The only problem for the investor Michael Caan is that there are investors out there that will sign on for the founders terms.

Currently in the middle of this whole 'fundraising' process and to be honest at the moment my feeling is we are going to say screw it and just never raise the money though we are fortunate enough to be able to self fund it ourselves.

I dont think there is enough value associated to founders who spend more than a few years 'coming up' with the idea, for example my current startup is built on knowledge that i gained from working for 3 different companies over the last 8 years. There is some major luck that i just happened to be in the right place at the right time in 3 seperate locations and understood how these things can change how we watch TV forever (and how to get from A to B).

When pitching to VC's i get the feeling that they are trying to reset the value to zero and that the clock starts here at zero hour and we'll build the company value from here.

I love the idea that VC's came up with about 4 year vesting and how the stock options you lose if you are removed from the company 'continue on with the company'. lol - which brainiac came up with that one.

Cheers,
Dean Collins
www.Cognation.net

Re: WeFi opens WiFi data-heavy app store | Telephony Online

deancollins — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:34:33 -0000

Re: Top Twitter Tools to Check Out in 2009

deancollins — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:27:10 -0000

If you dont want to hand over your twitter usernames and passwords to a third party website but want to implement a "keyword" autofollow
Or
if you are running multiple accounts and need more than 100 api hits an hour (if you get your ip address whitelisted you can get 20,000 api calls an hour).

Then check out http://www.MyTwitterButler.com for $10 it's a windows .net application that run directly on your pc instead of in the cloud.

It does two things;

1/ Auto Follows Users with up to 4 search terms per twitter account (allows multiple accoutns - I run mine with 11 accounts simultaneously but it slows it down).

2/ Direct Message Broadcast - you can send a direct message to all you users with just one click.

Cheers,
Dean

Re: 2007/09/29/twitter-toolbox/

deancollins — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:22:03 -0000

Re: Twittermania: 140+ More Twitter Tools!

deancollins — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:20:41 -0000

Re: Facebook raises $150 million more to cash out employees

deancollins — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:06:07 -0000

Matt,
thats not correct, emplyees have been selling their shares in open secondary markets - check out details here http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/fac...

cheers,
Dean