The Law of Mobility talks about value increasing with mobility. The impact of this law is being felt because the barriers to building mobility in are being obliterated week after week. Here are examples of technology advances enabling this to happen:
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Now playing: Red Mountain Church - Lord, Dissolve My Frozen Heart
I had a note yesterday from my friend Danny Briere. Danny’s making the rounds at CES. He told me that I had to check out GestureTek Mobile - said they had a lot of fun trying out the apps the company is demonstrating this week. As a Wii fan, if this video is any indication, I can certainly understand…
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Now playing: Jill Phillips - By A Thread
Bonus: Sue Marek reports that Wireless is the undercurrent of CES
More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Each week we will track indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:
Full list here.
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Now playing: Sara Groves - In The Girl There’s A Room
Bonus: Jack Gold identifies 7 Steps to a Highly Effective Mobile Strategy
Mobility is a wonderful thing. As mobility gets built into all products and services, businesses need to learn how to both capture the power of mobility and manage the dangers introduced through mobility. Here are some examples of how the power of mobility is being applied to create competitive advantage:
Complete list here
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In order to be winners in the new mobile era, businesses will not only need to capture the power of mobility, but also manage the danger. Highlighted below are recent examples of the danger of mobility and how some firms are beginning to manage it:
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Now playing: Andrew Osenga - New Beginning
Wrapping up this week’s links…
Indicators
More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Each week we will track indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:
Enabling Technology
Bonus: Michal Lev-Ram comments on “The battle over next-generation cellular networks“
The Law of Mobility talks about value increasing with mobility. The impact of this law is being felt because the barriers to building mobility in are being obliterated week after week. Here are examples of technology advances enabling this to happen:
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Now playing: All Star United - Love And Radiation
You may have noticed that I haven’t been posting my normal category posts this week. The companies and publications that normally feed these listings have quieted down for the holidays. Instead of posting a post each day with one or two links in it, I thought it’d be more productive to consolidate down to a couple of posts this week. Here’s the first one.
Converged Products
The most convenient way that mobility is getting built into products is through the convergence into the cellphone of capabilities that previously existed as standalone products. That way, those products are now with you and available for your use whenever you need them wherever you go.
Managing the Danger
In order to be winners in the new mobile era, businesses will not only need to capture the power of mobility, but also manage the danger. Highlighted below are recent examples of the danger of mobility and how some firms are beginning to manage it:
Capturing the Power
Mobility is a wonderful thing. As mobility gets built into all products and services, businesses need to learn how to both capture the power of mobility and manage the dangers introduced through mobility. Here are some examples of how the power of mobility is being applied to create competitive advantage:
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Now playing: Switchfoot - Love Is The Movement
When I first started blogging the Law of Mobility nearly two years ago, I thought it was important to have a way for folks to receive an e-mail each day with the previous day’s postings. There are a few folks who I know wouldn’t be reading the Law of Mobility if not for this option, but for the most part my readers use other tools (in December, 34% of you used Netvibes, 31% used Google Feedfetcher, 11% used Bloglines, and the remaining 24% used at least 25 other tools).
But, for those few that really want to receive the Law of Mobility via e-mail, I want to make sure that the experience is positive. Way back when, I selected Feedblitz as the service for e-mail delivery. Over the past 21 months, Feedblitz has changed their service in some ways, none of which I see as positive. I’ve kept an e-mail subscription myself to monitor how well it works and, frankly, the problems with delivery have been increasing. Some days I’ll receive two or more different e-mails with the previous day’s post. Since folks sometimes ask “why did you send me your Law of Mobility message twice yesterday?” I know that this is perceived as me personally overloading folks’ mailboxes. None of us need that. Other days, it never arrives, or it arrives much later than normal (e.g. the afternoon rather than the morning). That’s just not acceptable.
So, I’ve decided to switch my email delivery service to FeedBurner. I already use FeedBurner for tracking readership (e.g. the reader stats I listed above) and I’ve been impressed with the company, its quality and reliability, and the constantly improving set of features. In June of last year, FeedBurner was acquired by Google. I’ve watched to make sure this is a positive for FeedBurner’s services, and it has been. I have confidence that the company is going to stick around, investments in new functionality are at least continuing if not increasing, and Google isn’t forcing the company to radically change direction.
Interestingly, while FeedBlitz lets a blog owner both export current subscribers and import new subscribers using a data file, FeedBurner only lets me export my current subscribers, not import. In general, this is a good thing since it means each of you decide whether you want to receive these e-mails.
However, if you want to change to getting your Law of Mobility through FeedBurner instead of FeedBlitz, it means you need to take a few steps:
That should do it.
I’m not going to take any active steps to shut down the FeedBlitz delivery of e-mails, so if you like FeedBlitz or can’t be bothered to take the above 6 steps, you shouldn’t notice any difference. But I also am not going to take any of the active steps I’ve had to take at times to make sure that folks are successfully receiving their FeedBlitz e-mails.
If you think I’ve made a mistake in pursuing this change, feel free to let me know.
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