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MoMail, Digital Rosetta Stone for Mobile Phones

David Haddad — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:34:21 +0000

Momail is a free mobile application that lets you read and answer your emails from your mobile conveniently and cheaply. The company has so far received an undisclosed convertible loan from private investors. I met up with Momail’s founder & CEO, Roger Grönberg, and Honour Pearson, the company’s business developer, in a cafe in Stockholm’s Östermalmstorg district to learn more about how the product is set up, its main value proposition, and the company’s future direction as a carrier of mobile content. (more…)

Interview with Jerome Touze, Founder & CEO of WAYN

David Haddad — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:33:56 +0000

WAYN (Where Are you Now) is a web social network that lets people connect based on where they’ve been, where they are now, and where they’re going to be in the future. The company has received $11M in series A funding in November, 2006. It has about 8.5 million users so far and is growing at a rate of 15 to 20 thousand users per day. I caught WAYN’s founder and CEO Jerome Touze while he was visiting his company’s development center in Poland. We talked about how location can play a central role in online communities. Jerome also shared with me his thoughts on LBS and how he’s heading his company in that direction. (more…)

Moko - Mobile Community with 100 Million Page Views Per Month

David Haddad — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:15:38 +0000

Moko is a mobile web application that allows users to create profiles, meet new people, chat and share multimedia content. Loop Mobile, the company behind Moko, is based in Sydney, Australia and was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) in June, 2007. I talked to Ian Rodwell, the founder and head of products & technology at Loop Mobile, to learn more about Moko, its pricing strategy, mobile social network usage patterns, the company’s value proposition to telcos, and its global expansion strategy. (more…)

NearbyNow: Location-Based Shopping

David Haddad — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:10:12 +0000

NearbyNow allows shoppers to find products that are sold at their local stores. So far the company has received two rounds of funding worth 2.5M & 5.5M US$ both led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson. My conversation with Dan Steinman, Co-Founder & VP of Customer Relations, shed a light on the company’s strategy, mobile shopping usage behaviour, and the product decisions that drive user acceptance of promotional mobile alerts. (more…)

Jaiku’s S60 Client Gets LBS’d. BrightKite Starts Location-Based Notifications.

David Haddad — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:21:25 +0000

Two interesting location-based services news for today. The first one is about Jaiku’s upgrade of their s60 smartphone client. The new version does a couple of pretty nifty things from an LBS perspective. And the second piece of news is about a newcomer into the LBS marketplace fresh out of an incubator.
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Interview With Socialight CEO, Dan Melinger

David Haddad — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:59:06 +0000

Socialight lets you use your cellphone or computer to post virtual sticky notes in a specific location. The sticky note can be a random thought or a well-written recommendation and can hold the form of a written text or a photo (video & audio are coming soon). The company is angel funded with fewer than 10 employees and has already been mentioned on the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Wired Magazine, & the New York Times. I talked to Dan Melinger, co-founder of Kamida, the company behind Socialight, to learn more about the service. (more…)

Nokia N-Series & E-Series Success Is Great News for Mobile Application Developers

David Haddad — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:05:23 +0000

Tero Ojanpera, Nokia’s chief strategist and CTO, gave Om Malik at the AlwaysOn conference some very positive numbers on the sales of N-Series & E-Series high-end phones. (more…)

Jaiku’s Mobile Client & Strategy: An Overview

David Haddad — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:56:00 +0000

Robert Scoble interviews the two Finnish co-founders of Jaiku: Jyri Engestrom and Petteri Koponen. The discussion about the mobile aspect of Jaiku starts later in the video. Some interesting points: (more…)

Top 5 Facebook Apps: Lessons Learned

David Haddad — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:36:30 +0000

Everyone is talking about the facebook platform and how it allows application developers to acquire users quickly through social network word of mouth. As of 28 July, 2007 there are 2290 applications the top 5 of which are: (more…)