This is very interesting .. Google to offer advertisements based on behavioural profiles .. but offers users a chance to edit profiles. Behavioural profiling, 3D profiles etc is also covered in a very recent book I wrote called Social media marketing How Data Analytics helps to monetize the User Bas...

Note: This is a guest post from William Volk - co-founder of Playscreen - A good friend and a leading authority on iPhone, games, appstores and other related areas Now that I have products in Apple and Google's App stores (10 and 4 respectively) I can share some observations. Yes, Apple's App Store ...

A bit delayed but I think I will cover some topics which have not been covered adequately before. I also intend to blog more about the companies/topics covered here. Here are my impressions of MWC Barcelona. Overall This year, in one sense everything had changed and in another sense nothing has chan...

Today, I chaired the Business of Mobile 2.0 session today at Mobile World Congress Barcelona I believe that this was the single largest attendee session so far(outside of keynotes) and we have been getting lots of great feedback! Glad also GSMA could arrange the larger room and the more interactive ...

This is a great article .. I love learning from history .. and this is good .. Learning from the Great Depression - Here is a sampler of companies that shunned debt, diversified, and innovated during hard times and are still here today...

I totally agree with Mike Arrington's views in the BBC "Apple has become such an important part of the tech culture and they lead in so many ways with product visions, it's unclear that without that leadership which Steve Jobs can provide if anyone else can do that," said Mike Arrington, editor of t...

BACKGROUND It great to be invited to attend and participate in the State of the Net conference in Washington DC by Tim Lordon Director of the Internet Education Foundation who met me when I spoke at the EIF event at the European parliament . I would also like to thank MEP James Elles and Peter Linto...

This is an excellent and balanced article by Irving Wladawsky-Berger whose views and thinking I follow closely .. well worth a read .. Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution For me, the operative paragraph is: When it comes to Cuba, it feels like we have abandoned our faith in t...

This blog is an extension of a previous blog ( There is only One Web i.e. Only one thematically consistent Web powered by Web Technologies ..) and incorporates extensive feedback from Luca Passani, Dean Bubley, Jag Minhas, James Pearce and Prof Jeff Sonstein. Many thanks for all these great comments...

Playscreen launches a new iPhone game called Bounce trap. As per the review on appcraver Bounce Trap's objective is to fill and remove all the round holes on the screen without running out of balls. The balls are released from the top of the screen and are dropped through a tap. Once a ball hits a h...