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iPhone, Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:29:46 -0700

Great anyalsis of iPhone copycats

Do You Really Want Ads on Your Phones? | Abhishek Tiwaris Blog

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:54:03 -0700

Mobile phones are considered as the holy grail of advertising. They are personal, they are highly customized and highly specific interfaces for users. Potentially they could allow advertisers to target their ads with relatively high specificity.

Google Apologizes For the Abrupt Shutdown of Video Download Service | Abhishek Tiwaris Blog

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:21:19 -0700

Google officially apologized on its blog today. Bindu Reddy, Product Manager for Google Video posted an entry on Google blog about this and positioned it as an oversight on their part. They acknowledged the mistake and accepted that their initial approach was far away from common sense. Google is not reinstating the service in any case, however its planning to make the shutdown somewhat smoother.

Sprints XOHM, Why Should You Care? | Abhishek Tiwaris Blog

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:34:27 -0700

Sprint who is spending billions in the WiMax network officially announced its brand name yesterday. They will launch this service as "XOHM" (pronounced as zoam). The website went online late last night with basic service information.

I Caught i-CAUGHT on ABC Last Night | Abhishek Tiwaris Blog

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:33:16 -0700

This is very interesting. Just few days back I was talking about what media networks should do in order to catch up to the online social media phenomenon. While channel surfing last night I landed on ABC (Channel 7) and caught the later half of a new show called i-CAUGHT. Turns out that this was not just another TV show on ABC milking the online videos. This is a big initiative from ABC News. They launched this service yesterday and it was their first show at 10/9 Central.

MEGAVIDEO -- The New Sheriff in TubeTown | Abhishek Tiwaris Blog

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:11:06 -0700

I stumbled upon a new video service from HongKong called MEGAVIDEO.

These guys are solely aimed at displacing YouTube from the #1 spot. Please bear in mind that they feature nowhere in the ComScore top 10. They have an awesome offering with 5 gigs of storage and unlimited playback length.

First Free Mobile Service, Now Free Phones! | Abhishek Tiwaris Blog

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:40:56 -0700

Over last few days there has been a buzz in the blogosphere about Google Phone. Today some credible sources are reporting that Google is definitively working on a phone and has been meeting with several vendors to identify the best path forward. Now the Google phone speculation is nothing new. Even I mentioned it in an earlier post. However this time around the rumors say that they are planning to offer it for free and support it by ads.

Social Operating Ecosystem, WTF? | Abhishek Tiwaris Blog

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:02:04 -0700

Facebook with its recent offering has delivered this amazing bi-directional deep integration. 3rd parties have much needed flexibility to participate within Facebook's social ecosystem. This prominent presence allows ecosystems to overlap and derive additional value.

Google/Sprint vs. Apple/AT& | Abhishek Tiwaris Blog

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:26:31 -0700

Interesting assessment of a brewing battle of the giants.

Free Ad based Mobile Service -- Now thats more like it | Abhishek Tiwaris Blog

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:21:03 -0700

Enter Mosh Mobile, the mobile MVNO service which is in Beta right now. Yes you heard me right, its in Beta. Very novel concept for a MVNO. Not only that, it is also restricting access to only a chosen few (kinda like early days of GMail).