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Network Responsibility

by Raj on January 23, 2011 · 1 Comment

In the past 6 months, I’ve seen more and more infrastructure companies focused on network data optimization (and why shouldn’t they be with video consumption continuing to explode and now representing 40% of all data load). On the other hand, from an operator perspective, the introduction of data caps in creates the downside protection they [...]

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Using a Mobile Phone to Drive Behavior Change

by Raj on November 8, 2010 · 3 Comments

Back in May, I was inspired by BJ Fogg’s book Mobile Persuasion which described the phone as being used for 3 distinct purposes: entertainment, utility and behavior change (FYI, I don’t actually recall if it was exactly entertainment and utility (or communication) but I want to focus on the third one). In any case, the [...]

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Apps vs. Web Apps

by Raj on October 6, 2010 · 1 Comment

Earlier this week, I moderated the Apps vs Web Apps event at MobileMonday. In addition to being a topic that is quite dear to me (with my prior browsing experience), we had a fantastic turn-out with over 800+ registrations and maybe 400+ folks at the event! In any case, we touched on a variety of [...]

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Understanding Developer Psychology

by Raj on September 28, 2010 · No Comments

I recently moderated the “Go to Market” panel at Mobile 2.0 last week. I took the path of pretending to be a developer and asking my panelists what I should do. I started by asking the panel what platform should I build for 1st, 2nd and 3rd. I was expecting a very rationale answer based [...]

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Are Platform Game Lobbies the Next Social Graph?

by Raj on August 18, 2010 · 2 Comments

When speaking with the larger social gaming companies and asking why mobile hasn’t been a focus (to date), the response is interesting and a validation of how fragmented the mobile device and platform landscape is. Typically, the answer is something along the lines of “…we launch an average Facebook game and we make $3M per [...]

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Understanding PDE (Positional Determining Entity)

by Raj on June 10, 2010 · No Comments

In the past 2 years, the industry has finally moved beyond LBS as a category to LBS as a feature. As stated previously, “What app wouldn’t be more useful with location?”! What’s misunderstood in all of this is how location is retrieved by the app and what this means. E911 (government mandated subscriber location lookup) [...]

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The Fragmented Web

by Raj on July 29, 2009 · No Comments

One of the interesting trends in the industry is that the browser is becoming the platform for mobile applications. Why build native apps that require significantly more engineering effort then web apps which are truly a write once, run anywhere – this is what we’ve always been evangelizing at Skyfire. I’ve always pointed to the [...]

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