http://argumente.ro/cat45009Romanian blog about business and strategyhttp://argumente.ro/cat450092012-02-05T21:50:16+00:00@rgumenteenhttp://argumente.ro/cat45009/art0924479588/
That being said I find it incredible that Evan and his team get very valuable insights onto the directions they might take twitter onto - take link 1 or link 2 as some of the recent examples I came across. That's I guess one of the most powerful outcomes of an ever increasingly noisy blogosphere environment.
]]>2007-06-13T06:23:00+00:00MobileDragoshttp://argumente.ro/cat45009/art1188037939/Kottke's take, in case you missed it.
]]>2007-01-13T12:30:00+00:00MobileDragoshttp://argumente.ro/cat45009/art4993487975/acquired a mobile gaming shop for 1.2 million euros. Apparently it is a vertical strategic move for creating a strong portfolio for a compelling value proposition in a future move towards becoming a mobile virtual operator.

Last fall I actually had the chance of looking very close to the MVNOs fundamentals - that's a very interesting opportunity, still virgin in Romania and that basically needs a god differentiator in the niche one is aiming at. It is a wholesale business whereas in a classical Porter way you position yourself somewhere between being the lowest cost provider or the highest value proposition provider -- it's basically a marketing business.

Hence segmentation is key - take some some nice examples from the Scandinavian market: Norwegian Chess sold a while ago to TeliaSonera, gaymobile or Kvinders (mobile operator targeting women only) from Denmark.

That's one industry I would bet my money on, as opposed to hmm, real estate for example, which is still hot in Romania and where everybody and their mother is an expert. :)
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]]>2007-01-05T21:28:00+00:00MobileDragoshttp://argumente.ro/cat45009/art4394168264/your photos/videos from the phone on the web in only one click
]]>2006-07-25T02:39:00+00:00MobileDragoshttp://argumente.ro/cat45009/art8482968953/posted about Odeo's side project - twttr - which basically involves sending (mass) SMS-es to your friends with your status, etc. Ev positions it as a mobile blogging tool probably because all the messages are listed on the web in a public timeline.

Some people argue that twttr's just a West Coast version of dodgeball (which is quite used here in NYC). Personally, I hardly can find much of a personal use of it or as viral as they claim to be it, but probably people into setting IM funny status (most likely kinders/teenagers) might use it. We'll see how it goes, the direction of the future product development is what matters most and most likely I am not in the target anyways, personally I think hellodeo has better odds to fly.

Digging around the story, I also ran into other cool mobile-centered apps:
- jaiku
- mocial
- freever (acquired by buongiorno last year in August)
]]>2006-07-17T15:43:00+00:00MobileDragoshttp://argumente.ro/cat45009/art9644405612/How to do your own podcasts -- easier than I had thought actually, it works like a charm. You only need two pieces of software (free) and a mic.
]]>2006-02-21T18:07:33+00:00MobileDragoshttp://argumente.ro/cat45009/art9735652848/ Bill Gates' statement about the 20 dollar phone from Davos as alternative to Negroponte's $100 laptop as just plain jealousy on Google's involvement in the laptop development as well as on Linux being used as OS. It seems that there's a lot of movement in the $20 mobile phone space though.
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]]>2006-02-06T22:04:59+00:00MobileDragoshttp://argumente.ro/cat45009/art9551362700/
The following quote is what triggered this category creation:

"76 percent of Japanese consumers use their phones for Web browsing, compared to just 12 percent in the U.S. market."

The reason is cultural-related, as expected, as allegedly in Japan a home-based PC is not a common thing.

The entire press release is worth reading. [ via]
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