Floozy Speak!

First mobile entry!  Ok so what’s the deal, why won’t i shut up?  Well I’m just too psyched up about everything and anything mobile these days.  You name it, I got an idea in mind. 

What kinds of stuff?  well…

• location based awareness
• geo tagging of real world enviroments
• mobile authoring, flash, java, + symbian os sandboxes
• mobile marketing
• mobile tv and streaming media
• mobile shopping
• mobile data capture and more
• mobile blogging and self publishing
• voice over ip trends and technology

Pretty tame selection really, there’s a ton of it happening out there.  First of all by now you’ve heard the news that eBay bought Skype for a mere 4 BILLION dollars.  Holy hell kids, woah.  That’s a chunk of change.  Not bad for a three year old company that started as a cool thing, then turned into “the” thing, and suddenly found itself the leader in the biz.  Ok but thats Skype and voip really. 

How bout this?  Here’s something i’ve been reading about, thinking about, researching about, considering developing about…

Yes that’s a camera phone taking pictures of a barcode and then basically finding that products information.  Mobile search agents?  Kinda.  Soon though our cameras will be able to read barcodes or RFID and the camera will be moot. 

So aside from camera phones and barcodes what else is in the pipe? 

Another thing I follow is venture capital funding.  I find it interesting on who is plowing serious bucks into what types of ventures and or related technology venues.  VC is fascinating to me.  I picture curious investors desperately looking, researching, pondering and betting on the next big thing.  I love that.  Sometimes they totally miss, sometimes, maybe.. they are on to something.  Here’s one…

4INFO, a simple SMS based service, you SMS a question, it spits out an answer.  You type “coffee 10016” and it spits out, starbucks locations at that the 10016 zip code.   Hmmm tasty…and they just got round of 8 million in funding. 

"The mobile market continues to expand rapidly and the demand for information `on the go' is exploding," said Andreas Stavropoulos, managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. “

One of the problems I see with 4INFO in one aspect is that I dont think people think neccessarily in zip codes.  And I realize that impacts my own creations in the mobile arena as well.  Question is, what DO people think in?  That guy right now, down there in that parking lot, what’s he thinkin about, does he or she know what zip code this is?  Ok maybe for work they do, what if they travel uptown, then what?  I think I know 2 zip codes in my head, where i work and where i live, thats it.  I wonder if 4INFO handles street access…

Rewind.. forget barcodes.. what about something that can recognize images?

Course I get into all this information just like anyone else, consume it on the web, read about it mags, attend conferences.. well I dont’t actually attend conferences, nope, but I attend exhibitor lists!  Right now i’m going thru the exhibitor’s list at Mobile Content World, coming up soon in yet another place I wont be at.  No body comes to Ohio.