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Just a quick post to draw your attention to this presentation about Shanzhai phones in China. Shanzhai means something like ‘mountain hideout’ and they are a kind of guerrilla class of new devices appearing on the streets of Beijing. The designs range from the batshit-crazy (but, yes, I want one): Check out this forthcoming phone from Indian mobile manufacturer, Lava: Notice anything unusual compared to the normal Nokia/Blackberry fare? So I met this guy called Max in the pub – he’s a pal of some long-time cronies from the now-somewhat-dormant UK laptop business ACi. Max suffers from hayfever – he’s known as ‘snotty Max’ in some circles. He’s tried all the drugs and cures you’ve ever heard of – as you would If you look back a couple of years, nobody really expected that social games, like Farmville, Mafia Wars and Texas Hold’Em Poker, would be a particularly powerful force in social media. How wrong we were. News emerged yesterday that Twitter is going to introduce advertising to its service. This will take the form of what it is calling ‘promoted tweets’ that will appear at the top of search results through the service in a contextual manner. Many thanks to mobile guru Tomi Ahonen, who was kind enough to forward me some extracts from his Almanac 2010. The Almanac collects together data about the mobile industry worldwide. |             | |||
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