Now why would I ever need this...
Understanding Mobile 2.0 is an excellent review of startups involved in Mobile Web 2.0 apps.
However lurking within the article is an ad for a product from a company where I think the technology geeks have more authority than the marketing people.
Now why o why would I ever, ever want to watch TV on my mobilephone when I am in the house already!
Elsewhere in the article there is quote of a quote (which now becomes a quote of a quote of a quote or quote^3) from a certain Eric Schmidt from Google which is worth repeating:
"Mobile phones are cheaper than PCs, there are three times more of them, growing at twice the speed, and they increasingly have Internet access. What is more, the World Bank estimates that more than two-thirds of the world's population lives within range of a mobile phone network. Mobile is going to be the next big Internet phenomenon. It holds the key to greater access for everyone - with all the benefits that entails."
Korean search engine more succesful than Google
... but only in Korea.
An interesting article from
Business Week and blogged by
Ajit Jaokar describes an innovatiove Google Answers type search engine called Naver that is more popular than Google or Yahoo on Korea.
What he's talking about is a three-year-old initiative called
"Knowledge-In." The program lets users ask and answer questions on
anything from recipes for kimchi to the composition of rocket fuel.
Readers judge the responses, and the millions of folks who have
answered questions are ranked as "ordinary," "knowledgeable," "highly
knowledgeable," "supernatural," or -- for 22 truly prolific answerers
-- "gods." "Naver is great because you get all sorts of detailed
information in very specific questions and answers," says Song Han
Sil, a 25-year-old pianist in Seoul. "Many of my friends don't even
know that Google offers Korean-language service." The database now has
some 37 million questions and answers that can get returned with
search results.
However according to the
Korea Times yesterday Yahoo are poised to take over the NHN company that owns the search service.
Now why o why would I ever, ever want to watch TV on my mobilephone when I am in the house already!
