'telecoms' Category
Suveillance Cameras, IRC, Privacy and Data Use
Catching up on Bloglines, I came across this post by Alec Saunders about proposed surveillance cameras in Ottawa. It evoked a strange kind of cultural dissonance: virtually every town in Britain is already a panopticon. And most people don’t think twice about the roving, all seeing eyes (there are two within sight of Calico Jack’s […]
Mobile Social Networking at Hillington
The Wireless Innovation Centre at Hillington, a key hub drawing together the disparate wireless scene in Scotland, hosted a mobile social networking event the Friday before last. The centre’s technology manager Alisdair Gunn kicked the day off by installing Andy Campbell (”Chief Networker” and CEO of Specialmove) as compere. Andy, well known in the […]
Barcamp Leeds 2007
The weekend before last I travelled down from Dundee to Barcamp Leeds 2007 with my colleague Rick Moynihan. From the outset Old Broadcasting House, a tastefully refurbished pristine innovation centre, was humming with a sense of energy and anticipation. It didn’t disappoint - with the exception of those who couldn’t […]
The 7th Mass Media, SIMs and Individuality
It’s been interesting to watch the reaction to Tomi Ahonen’s Mobile the 7th Mass Media post. You either like Tomi’s brash style and bold claims or you don’t. I do. Even if he goes too far, the blog and the book are powerful antidotes to a pervading cloud of negative sentiment - often unsupported […]
Telco 2.0 Survey, strategy and von Clausewitz book
As a rule I shun surveys whether by phone, web or snail mail. Frankly, most are just too boring to contemplate without the incentive of a large carrot - deadpan deliveries of irrelevant questions, crappy ASP programs that crash before the end and letters from researchers who think people have got nothing else to do.
However […]Looming darkness: a telco opportunity
The glow of artificial light at 5.30 on a dark, wet winter morning might not seem like a cause for cheer. But, with 75 MPH winds over Fife last night, I was expecting the usual storm routine: find the old phone, plug it in - or if the phone lines were down go outside the […]
Web 2.0, long tail, Web 3.0: anyone for the long term?
In the Autumn of 1989 I came back from my industrial training year at Eurostat in Luxemburg with a view that speech technology was going to be the next big thing. After completing my degree, I set out for Edinburgh the following year to join a new MSc in Speech and Language Processing - […]
Mobile Web 2.0: Californian greenhouse gas or a new force in emerging telephony?
Is mobile Web 2.0 a cloud of Californian greenhouse gas or a new force in emerging telephony? Andrew Orlowski’s recent Register article points to the former view, while another Register article about Nokia and T-Mobile’s USA pinning their hopes on mobile Web 2.0 paints a brighter picture. Some other mobile Web 2.0 links can […]
Customer value, strategy and recent events at Vodafone
Some time back I did a strategy course as part of the Advanced Management Programme at the USGBS. After a few sessions of methodology and attendant whizzy diagrams, George Burt came in one morning and asked how many people had thought about customer value in the shower. Now, I have no intention of sharing my […]