April 2007

you might want to learn...
...ten things about South Korea
Create your own MVNO
With Sonopia - that's a Verizon wireless service that permits creating your own wirless career, tailored to your targeted community needs. The fees range between 3 and 8%.
big boys playing the ball
That was exactly my thought when seeing the news at Cristi first thing this morning -- Google's firstly securing that Microsoft has no options in the ad game (in the grand way), and afterwards putting their money where their mouth is (Brin's) when judging in terms of opportunity costs. All in all is a fun strategic game to watch (funnier to play, that's true) and I certainly agree that  it's just a matter of months until Yahoo comes up in the strategic gameboard.
Kiva
Another interesting model - an intermmediator betweek very small biz idea and investors, micro-payments to be more specific. The countries the fund receivers are from are located in the developing world.
Blyk
Interesting model -- free voice (over mobile) & advertising supported. The target is the 16-24 segment, as apparently they are more willing to take the free for ads trade. The company & the story.