Category Archives: Mobile

iPhone: The Next Ad Network?

By Duane Brown | Published: November 25, 2009
Mobile Marketing Watch had an article up today about iPhone Users Most Willing to Purchase Content. This piece got me thinking because this moring I read about a new app launched that is from a skateboard magazine called Concrete Wave. The iPhone app has digital versions of ads from the magazine and is in the [...]
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Review: three weeks after using foursquare

By Duane Brown | Published: November 7, 2009
This past Thursday marked my third week after signing up and starting to play the mobile social network-cum-game foursquare. I’ve written about their launch and my thoughts about finding value in the social network-cum-game. I’m enjoying foursquare as I dig into the mobile platform. I was also lucky enough to be using the mobile platform so [...]
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Finding the value of @foursquare

By Duane Brown | Published: October 19, 2009
Last week foursquare launched in Toronto and 14 other cities. My friend David Chan (@dav0) was saying.. I think Foursquare has a chance to beat out tumblr and chi.mp for social site I lose interest in quickest (via Twitter) He was hopping there would more to it and he was only really telling the people, within his [...]
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Facebook 1.7 is now available for the BlackBerry

By Duane Brown | Published: October 18, 2009
Just downloaded my copy of Facebook 1.7 for my BlackBerry. You can download the update at blackberry.com/facebook or m.facebook.com from your BlackBerry’s browser. Key features for 1.7 include: Caching Improvements – The application uses the device memory more efficiently News Feed Filters – The ability to toggle between ‘News Feed, Status Updates, Photos & Links’ Feed Pre-fetching – [...]
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Mobile in Canada

By Duane Brown | Published: October 1, 2009
I was reading a post today; Canadian Banks Look to Smartphones for Mobile Banking’s Future and it got me thinking about a post (U.S. Leading the Global Mobile Data Boom) I saw a few days ago covering the mobile industry from a global perspective. It’s great to see RBC and Scotiabank offering some services but [...]
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