About Mobility

A very nice slide-deck by Rudy de Waele (@mtrends) — love it.

I totally agree with this vision, which is one that has great potential, and is one that I’ve been passionately promoting for some time now:

“The mobile handset is, by its own nature, a social artifact; an object made and used by people to connect with people. This is the reason why the next big development in mobility and related services involves social software in some form or fashion, to enable better ways to find, communicate and share with friends and family, to learn about our surroundings, and to consume information. And the mobile handset is at the center of this.” I call this People-centric mobile computing.

We have many names for this, but four main concepts are at the center of this:

• People-centric Computing (PDF)
• Physical Interactions
• The Internet of Things (“Internetting everything around us”)
• The Mobile User eXperience

…and while all the necessary parts to make this happen are here today in some form or fashion, this vision is one that will take some time to fulfill and monetize, mainly due to slow go-to-market/deployment (state of the industry) and thus adoption.

See Rudy’s slide-deck Mobile Social Contextual Applications & Services:



Mobile Social Contextual Applications & Services
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An interesting BusinessWeek article, covers the next holly grail in marketing. Yeap you guest it; those 2 or so inches of screen real estate in your pocket; the cell phone or mobile handset. And more importantly, the application of the analysis of personal profiles and activity streams, for the delivery of relevant/customized information:

As more consumers browse the Web on their cell phones, the No. 1 search engine must cope with less space to place ads

See The Real Threat to Google (BusinessWeek).

Related to this see Andreas Weigend on the Consumer Data Revolution.

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Andreas S. Weigend (People & Data) is one of those visionary (yet practical) individuals, like Tomi T. Ahonen (Communities Dominate Brands), who I follow, and love how they think… as their way of thinking is very inline with my way of thinking, and with what we do at eZee inc.

Andreas recently wrote a great, insightful post titled The Two Data Revolutions: Why do we need a sound data strategy? that is right on the spot. Related to this, I recently wrote a response to another insightful, right on the spot post by Tomi titled Tomi T. Ahonen on Data-mining, identity, digital footprint, and social context.

…the interactions (intentions and activity streams), the user-provided information (with their permission), the meta-data — what Andreas call “People & Data”, what Tomi refers to as “Digital Footprints”, that when combined with the “User Context”, is what I call People-centric Computing/Information…

…People & Data, Digital Footprints, the Consumer Data Revolution, People-centric Computing and Information, are all names or descriptors for the next phase, revolution on information and computing; and this is especially true for mobile computing…

Let’s make it happen…

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