Comments for Mass Mobile Month http://massmobilemonth.com Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:40:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Mobile-Enabled Digital Photo Frame Dropping Soon by Douglass Turner http://massmobilemonth.com/2010/03/22/mobile-enabled-digital-photo-frame-dropping-soon/#comment-17 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:40:47 +0000 http://massmobilemonth.com/?p=306#comment-17 Hmmm. Not sure I buy the concept. Photos on a mobile device are typical shared not by sending them over the cloud but by sitting in a cafe, classroom, or bar with your friends passing the device around. Unless something has change recently, sending photos “over the air” (the raison d’etre of MMS) has been a complete bust: expensive, poorly design, complex, basically broken.

The whole digital photo frame concept has always puzzled me. The classic example of technology chasing after a problem. A picture in a frame is intended for extended viewing. It has nothing to do with rapid updates. Occasional updates? sure. A simple WiFI transfer from PC to frame would be fine.

Bottom line: this feels like a collision of two divergent use cases.

Cheers,
Douglass
twitter: @dugla

]]> Comment on MoMo Founder Matt Gross on the Past, Present and Future of Mobile in Boston by Kyle http://massmobilemonth.com/2010/03/08/momo-founder-matt-gross-on-the-past-present-and-future-of-mobile-in-boston/#comment-16 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:16:03 +0000 http://massmobilemonth.com/?p=282#comment-16 Doug,
Too true. However, I think Jennie was trying to evoke a future where the overlap of these vertical devices is so incredible that terms like “mobile” and “geo-located” are much harder to define. It’s a vision not of the writer, but of the subject. Thanks and please check out more at BostInnovation.com.

Kyle
Editor
BostInnovation

]]> Comment on MoMo Founder Matt Gross on the Past, Present and Future of Mobile in Boston by Douglass Turner http://massmobilemonth.com/2010/03/08/momo-founder-matt-gross-on-the-past-present-and-future-of-mobile-in-boston/#comment-9 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:25:34 +0000 http://massmobilemonth.com/?p=282#comment-9 Careful Wade,

Mobile doesn’t replace. Mobile fills a deep, powerful need we were unaware of until it was revealed to us. Mobile is one part of a landscape of specific interactive technologies, each with a set use cases that perhaps overlap to some extent. These technologies are of course loosely coupled via the cloud.

It is not about either/or but rather both/and.

Cheers,
Doug
I tweet as: @dugla

]]> Comment on Announcing the Official Mass Mobile Month iPhone App, from Swift Mobile by MK http://massmobilemonth.com/2010/03/03/announcing-the-official-mass-mobile-month-iphone-app-from-swift-mobile/#comment-5 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:45:19 +0000 http://massmobilemonth.com/?p=249#comment-5 Another iPhone app which covers events and other interesting stuff for Boston area entrepreneurs. Check it in Apple App Store for “VentureFizz”

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