It’s easy to chuckle at a vintage Radio Shack ad like this one on YouTube from 1990 that touted the “Affordable, Portable, Cellular Telephone” from Radio Shack (gee…do ya think that’s a Bill Gates-like character for the boy?). What most of us don’t know is that these ‘brick’ phones, with their six inch antennas, listed for $1,200 ($1,970 in 2011 dollars) and the average cellular phone call cost was $.40/minute!
We’ve come a loooong way since 1990 and it’s likely this mobile thingy is gonna be big. ;-)
Joining us on this episode of the Minnov8 Gang is Justin Grammens, co-Founder at Recursive Awesome, LLC, owner of Localtone, LLC founder of the Mobile Twin Cities User’s Group, and co-founder of Mobile March. During the “Gang Mentality” segment we’re pleased to have been joined by Lisa Foote, co-founder of MixMobi and a pragmatic expert in the mobile space overall. She also speaks at many industry events (e.g., the upcoming Mobile March) and is a strategist with a global perspective on the mobile space.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Beyond the Pale is the artist & their song “Faral O’Garas” via the podsafe Music Alley.
Discussed during the show:
- ZDnet report on Macworld 2011
- Macworld site 2011 predictions
- Windows Phone 7 devs get long-awaited pay day
- Tweet Aggregator, Paper.li
- iPad Cases w/keyboards
- Nokia CEO Elop Lays Groundwork for New Strategy, Hints May Be Open to OS Switch
- Gartner: App Sales To Top $15 Billion In 2011
- GlueCon and Glue Hackathon (Minneapolis won vote to be one! Date to be announced soon.)
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January 30th, 2011 at 12:39 pm
Texting and short forms aren’t a replacement for long form. Two completely different animals. Long form takes work, short form doesn’t (usually). But, most of the Tweets that flow through my streams link to long form posts. And, with long form + comments one can explore a topic or actually have a conversation around it. That’s very hard to do with short forms.
So Graeme, I want you to feel guilty about giving up the long form