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What’s New in Mobile Marketing – 2/17/10

• Adobe’s Plan To Deliver Apps Across All Mobile Devices
• Brightcove Pushes Mobile Video With Flash 10.1 Support
• AT&T and Others Announcing Rival to Apple App Store….Great it’s 1999 all over again…
• 10 Pointless iPhone Apps
• Qik Teams With WeFi To Stream Video Using Free Stable WiFi Hotspots
• Facebook Mobile Now Has 100 Million Monthly Users
• Hulu Could Still Launch On The iPad …Not gonna happen…as article points out iPad needs Hulu more than Hulu needs the iPad…
• Detroit Red Wings Make Game Programs Interactive With QR Codes
• Shazam & Dockers Make TV A “Clickable Media” During Superbowl. YouTube Video Of Commercial Here.
• Why Is Mobile Marketing & Advertising So Hard To Measure?
• Bowlingual: iPhone App Translates What Your Dog Barks, Posts It To Twitter
• Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue Delivers Video from Page to Phone
• YouTube Will Kill Flat-Rate Mobile Broadband Pricing Forever
• What Google Buzz Means For Mobile
• From “Eraserhead” to MMS: David Lynch Goes Mobile
• Loopt’s Location-based Ads Hit the iPhone, ‘Minority Report’ Here We Come
• Apple Grabs 25% of the Smartphone Market, Android Doubles Market Share
• Teens Text 10 Times Per Hour: Nielsen (That’s it?!?)
• Stat Shot: How The iPhone Changed The Handset Market
• Mobile App or Browser-Based Site? Report Says The Browser Will Win on Mobile
• Will Optimization For Mobile Apps Soon Outweigh Search Engine Optimization?

What’s New in Mobile Marketing – 12/11/09

• Ustream Broadcaster App On iPhone – Festivus For The Rest Of Us! Qik soon to be live as well!
• AT&T: 3% Of Wireless Users Eat 40% Of Data
• Today’s Vision Of Tomorrow: Apps With Everything, Everything With Apps
• 8 Medical (Useful) iPhone Apps You Should Prescribe To Your Health-Care Professional
• Consumer Warming Up To Mobile Video
• 7-Eleven Tries Out Mobile Marketing With Free Drinks
• Mobile Couponing Catching On?
• Apple Kicks Cheating Developer Out Of The App Store That’s 1,000 Less Useless Apps Now…
• How The iPhone Could Reboot Education
• Put On Your Google Goggles And Visually Search The World
• Booyah’s Mobile App My Town Turns The Real World Into Monopoly
• All Hail The iPod Touch
• Don’t Create An iPhone App For The Online Buzz Factor

Ustream Broadcaster App On iPhone – Festivus For The Rest Of Us!!!

Mark today’s date down as we’re now entering a new age in real-time, interactive mobile video.  If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know we’ve been talking about real-time, interactive mobile video for awhile:

• Why Qik And Ustream Are Already The New “Twitters” Of The Real-Time Web
• iPhone 3G S…The S Better Stand For Streaming
• Why Video On The iPhone Will Be A Game Changer
• One Step Closer To Mobile, Video and Social Media Integration
• The Next Killer App For Mobile

Now that Apple has finally allowed real-time video streaming, this is going to fundamentally change how we view and interact with video socially, professionally, and so on.  I’ll post a more in-depth blog post about this over the weekend, but with Ustream, Qik, and others now mobile, things are about to get very interesting…and exciting!

If you want more info on the Ustream Broadcaster app you can get it here.

If you don’t know what Festivus means, then you never watched Seinfeld…

What’s New in Mobile Marketing – 12/04/09

• More Than 60% Of Marketers See Mobile Video As Important Tool
• Analyst: App Store Could Hit 300,000 Apps Next Year – 299,000 of which will be completely useless crap…
• Wolfram Alpha Tries To Sell iPhone App For $50 While Mobile Web Version Is Free
• WebGL Might Eventually Bring Awesome 3D To Web Apps
• 19 Best Utility Apps For Your iPhone
• Analysts Predict 1 Billion+ Mobile Web Users By 2010
• Does The World Really Need 9 Terminator Salvation iPhone Apps?
• How Apple And iPhone Blew It In China
• App Developers Not Happy WIth Android
• Mobile Marketing Beyond The iPhone
• ReadWriteWeb’s Readers Favorite Mobile Apps
• 30 Android Apps To Watch
• iFarm iPhone Game Downloaded 1 Million Times In 10 Days
• Video Calling Comes To The iPhone. Via Fring App and Via Knocking App
• The Future Of Mobile Augmented Reality
• Applying Email Strategies To Mobile Marketing
• Android Gets An Adults Only App Store
• New Website Publicizes iPhone App Rejections
• How To Take Advantage Of Mobile Marketing

What’s New in Mobile Marketing – 11/11/09

• Google Buys AdMob in Bid to Boost Mobile Ads
• Tips for making your mobile app a success
• Bump Goes Cross-Platform With New Android App; Upgrades iPhone Version Too
• Sparkz iPhone dock projector: Expensive and small
• Vimeo begins to play nice with iPhone, Android devices
• Cough into your cell phone, not your sleeve
• First worm to infect iPhone is on the loose
• Top-Grossing iPhone Apps: Doom, Red Alert Challenge Rock Band
• Android 2.0 Introduces Improvements for Mobile Video

What’s New in Mobile Marketing – 08/19/09

• Mobile Web Audience Is Larger Than You Think
• SCVNGR Lets You Build Awesome Scavenger Hunts For Any Mobile Phone
• Build Your Own iPhone Apps in 5 Minutes With Sweb Apps
• Samsung Widget Strategy For Cross Platform Support
• iPhone Is Now The Most Popular Camera Phone On Flickr
• Mobile Video Phones Hot, Pay TV On Handsets Not
• Jonas Bros. Team with Verizon for Innovative Campaign
• Capture Your Summer with Great Mobile Video Apps
• The 10 Most Expensive iPhone Apps
• Sherwin-Williams iPhone App Moves from 70th to 18th in App Store After 2-day $15K Media Push By Admob
• The 35 Best iPhone Apps Of The Year (so far)

What’s New In Mobile Marketing – 07/15/09

• Qik Launches Push API, Mobile-To-Mobile Video Streaming
• Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues runs 2D Bar Code MMS Campaign
• 7 iPhone Apps that can save lives
• One out of every seven minutes of media consumption today takes place via mobile
• $2 or less is prime price point for iPhone Game
• MillerCoors courts Chicago sports fans with Mobile Marketing
• Seeking fame in Apple’s sea of iPhone Apps – 65,000 apps now…
• Top 10 Mobile Phone Websites - June 2009

What’s New In Mobile Marketing – 07/08/09

• 14 iPhone Apps With Push Notification for Productivity
• Christian Dior Makes Fashion Statement With Mobile Marketing
• iPhone Apps for Movie Geeks
• Amazon Won’t Let Mobile Apps Use It’s Product Info Anymore
• Video Camera’s in iPods? Bad News for YouTube?
• Akamai Shows Off VBR Streaming for iPhone 
• Mobile Phone Proves Useful Tool For Ace Hardware
• Arby’s Using Shortcodes for Free Roastburger.  Text BBQ to ARBYS (27297) on July 9th for Free Grub.
• The Weather Channel Creates Mobile Optimized Site for Weather.com.  Nice to see that they get it.  No need for an App – Just optimize your site for the main mobile browsers.

What’s New In Mobile Marketing – 7/01/09

• Obama gets interrupted by a journalists ‘quacking duck’ ringtone
• Heineken’s new iPhone app join’s the 50,000 others already available in the App Store
• SMS and retail packaging is becoming popular with brands.  Frito-Lay is the latest to go mobile
• Qik and Brightcove strike a deal bringing more exposure to mobile, real-time video
• iPhone 3.0 Software works great on the new iPhone 3G S….not so great if you upgrade your existing handset and OS
• Are Mobile Apps right for your brand?  You can always just optimize your site for mobile too
• Census Workers have a pretty good gadget to work with out in the field
• Hawaii church becomes first to stream live video to iPhone

iPhone 3G S….The S Better Stand For Streaming…

Rumors are starting to surface that AT&T is still planning to cripple video streaming on the upcoming iPhone 3G S. It’s sad enough that iPhone users are still without MMS (has anyone with an iPhone even bothered to go to viewmymessage.com to view an MMS??) so why can’t AT&T get their act together to at least let iPhone users in on the mobile video revolution.  This article from Techcrunch has most of the details and it’s actually quite sad that this is even becoming a rumor.  Qik and Ustream are set to be the Prime Time mobile real-time video players with both also offering web to mobile interactivity.  It’s no secret that we’re huge fans of mobile interactive video here as most people in our office have Qik on their iPhones and have been using it quite a bit.

What’s depressing is how far behind the U.S. mobile market is relative to both the European and Asian mobile markets.  As long as iPhone is tied exclusively to AT&T there’s not going to be much motivation for AT&T to get their act together.  And that means most of us that are big proponents of mobile marketing and the mobile internet, are going to continue to be stuck in the mobile Dark Ages.

Thanks AT&T…