I'm going to the Emerging Telephony conference February 27 to March 1. If you're going and want to meet there, drop me a note. You can find my contact info here.
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The walls between the web, wireless, entertainment, and computer industries are coming down. This weblog explores the opportunities that result. You may want to subscribe to the feed or e-mail service.
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About Michael Mace
- I'm VP of product marketing at UserTesting. In ten years at Apple, my roles included Director of Worldwide Customer & Competitive Analysis and director of Mac Platform Marketing. At Palm I was Chief Competitive Officer and VP of Product Planning. For more info on me, visit my website. Note: The things I write here are my own opinions and do not represent the views of my employer(s).
Recommended Posts
Although most blog posts go out of date pretty quickly, I think some that I've written in the past are still relevant and worthy of your attention. Here are the ones I recommend:
- The Big Picture: How Mobile, Personal Computing, Media, and the Internet All Fit Together
The Market(s) for Mobile Devices
- The Shape of the Smartphone and Mobile Data Markets
- Desperately Seeking the Info Pad
- Will the Smartphone Kill the PC?
- European vs. American Mobile Phone Use
The Mobile Platform Wars
- Nokia, the Computer Company
- Nokia Declares War on Apple
- Hypenotized by Apple
- Is Apple Too Powerful?
- Adobe and Apple: Let's Get Real
- What's Really Wrong With BlackBerry?
- Who Killed Symbian?
The Rise of Web Apps
- "Software as a Service" Misses the Point
- Who's Really Using Web Apps, and Why
- How Web Communities Work
- The Web as an Apps Platform
- The Web as a Medium for Creating New Media
- Web 2.0 Doesn't Cut it for Mobile Devices
Operating Systems & Infrastructure
- A Quick History of Software
- It's the Ecosystem, Stupid
- The Mobile Data Apocalypse
- Mobile Applications, RIP
Content Distribution
- Removing the Middleman
- Removing the Middleman, Part 2: Music
- Removing the Middleman, Part 3: Books
- The Future of Publishing: Why Ebooks Failed in 2000
And Also...
- The Cluetrain Manifesto Revisited
- Bring on the Singularity!
- The Three Laws of Technology Strategy
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Recommended Sites
Tech-related sites:
- Michael Gartenberg
- Muni Wireless
- The Register
- Rough Type
- What Japan Thinks
- Community Group Therapy
- DW2.0
- Asymco
- Technologizer
Mobile sites:
- Lifeblog
- Telepocalypse
- Wireless Watch Japan
- Software Everywhere
- Disruptive Wireless
- Techype
Mobile commentary aggregators:
- Carnival of the Mobilists
- Wireless Watch Community
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1 comments:
Hi Michael. I'm looking forward to holding the discussion. Sorry to tell you, but I'm attending as an independent blogger so you won't get to hear any prepackaged marketing of any sort this time. I definitely hope to get a good conversation going, though. Please be sure to stop by.
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