Podcast Episode 13

This week we talk about unlimited drinks Dublin, review the kit that the mobile geek at Glastonbury used (that’s James by the way), talk about Flirtomatic’s move into the German market, Ewan’s ‘mobile hell hole post’ and our favourite new things in the regular ‘things of the week’ slot.

…oh and one other thing too… what was that now…?

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The contributors:

Ewan MacLeod is turning off Motorola RAZRs and burning phone holsters he is SMS Text News.
James Whatley’s blog is here. He works for SpinVox doing clever social media stuff and their blog.
Dan Lane’s blog is at http://invalid.name. He’s CTO at Howler Tech.
Ben Smith is a management consultant. He has a blog, but anything worth reading is contributed here.

Sites mentioned in the podcast:

People we met at Unlimited Drinks Dublin:

Paschal from Mobile Travel Technologies
Connor from Connector.ie
Dave from Just Routes
Russel from Vodafone – watch this space for news of his project.

Flirtomatic

James’s Mobile Geek at Glastonbury post

Ewan’s Mobile Hell Hole post

Things of the week:

Orange’s N82
The new QIK client
The Loc8tor ‘stuff finder’
JoikuSpot Premium

We’re really keen to get your feedback on the podcast – please let us know in the comments or tell Ewan – ewan@smstextnews.com.

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