Monthly Archives: April 2009

A quick recap of REBarcamp Phoenix

 Last Thursday I attended my second RE Barcamp, this time in Phoenix. This barcamp was an excellent experience that built upon the first one I attended in Los Angeles earlier in the month. The team in Phoenix did a great job of organizing the event from picking a great venue to providing lunch on site…

Back to basics – understanding the three tiers of mobile marketing

I stumbled across an interesting article on SandHill.com that provides a good summary on what businesses should consider to go mobile.  I personally think the article is worth a read but I want focus on one particular section of this article that I think is the most basic (and most important) concept every business needs…

Los Angeles RE Barcamp Recap

Thanks to Ricardo Bueno, Stacey Harmon, Irina Netchaev and others for putting together an awesome event! We had a great time. Here is our brief post show summary…

CTIA Wireless 2009

Having to follow two big international wireless tradeshows (GSMA World Congress and CES)  is a big task for CTIA, which was held last week in Las Vegas. I sometimes wonder why they don’t spread these shows out a bit more. There were not a lot of major announcements at this show. A handful of new…

The Mobile World According to Google

A great post was written earlier this week at TechcrunchIT by Google executive Vic Gundotra regarding mobile statistics and trends entitled “Follow the Mobile User”. Vic Gundotra is Google’s VP of Engineering for Mobile and Developer Products. The article shows a recent snapshot of the growth in mobile internet usage and discusses some of the key…

Apple iPhone OS 3.0

If you are an iPhone user, you may have heard that Apple recently announced the availability of iPhone OS 3.0  to developers. This is the latest iteration of their OS and upgrades will be available to iPhone users later this summer for free . Here are some interesting features that the new OS will provide:…