Podcast Episode 14

With special guest Alfie Dennen from Moblog the team discuss the new Moblog platform, Three’s hoodie-hating store, Christmas in July, the iPhone (heard of it?) app store, O2’s continuing epic-fail to provide Dan a service, an update on everyone’s favourite toy – the personal mobile network – and a special follow-up feature on James’s brand evangelism post this week with some tips for Carphone Warehouse (no carphones, not a warehouse)….  As ever it’s all wrapped up with the regular ‘things of the week’.

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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.
Alfie Dennen is from Moblog… the original mobile blogging platform.  So that’s Mr Dennen to you m’kay?

Sites mentioned in the podcast:

Moblog

Ewan’s post on the Three store hoodie ban

The iPhone application store

Have O2 goofed MMS security?

James’s ‘Carephone Warehouse’ post

Things of the week:

Agfa Bluetooth photo frame
James’s midnite flit to York aided by Textperts
AGPS
and Nokia Maps
iPhone Apps: Grafitio and Urban Spoon

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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