what if a phone was a library
TRANSCRIPT
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A PHONE WAS A LIBRARY
INTRODUCTION
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every
society, in every family.”- Kofi Annan
I WILL TALK ABOUT
MOBILEcommerce
advertising
video
youth
webapplications banking
communicationlocation
presence micro
messaging
devices
information
multimedia
searchfriends
education
attention
networks
economy
QUICK FIGURES
over
3.1 billionmobile phones in use globally
THIS IS A LUXURY
THIS IS A NECESSITY
I HAVE THIS IN MY POCKET
IT’S CALLED THE MOBILE WEB
QUICK FIGURES: MOBILE WEB
China has
155 Millionmobile internet users
QUICK FIGURES: MOBILE WEB
South Africa has
10 Millionmobile internet users
QUICK FIGURES: MOBILE WEB
Wikipedia will serve over
50 Millionmobile impressions in July
recently launched Wikipedia Mobile has served over 40 million impressions up unti l 20 July 2009
THERE ARE APPLICATIONS TOO
MAKE DINNER RESERVATIONS
BOOK A FLIGHT
QUICK FIGURES: MOBILE APPS
65 000 iphone applications
1.5 Billiondownloads
QUICK FIGURES: MOBILE APPS
50 000 mobile applications
500 Milliondownloads from GetJar
MXit
14 Millionusers
QUICK FIGURES: MOBILE APPS
BOTH WIN
MOBILE WEB VS. MOBILE APPS
BASICALLY WE ALL WIN
mobile web usage
mobile appusage
demand for infrastructure
increased commerce opportunity
economic growth
rely on
DATA CONNECTIVITY
MOBILE WEB & MOBILE APPS
EVERYONE WILL JUST BE AN ISP
IT’S NOT ALL HUNKY DORY
CHALLENGESlack of education
development languagesaccessibility
screen sizes
rich interfaces
lack of standardsconnection speed
costs search
mobile friendly sites
distribution
I KNOW WHERE YOU ARE
LOCATION BASED ADVERTISING
The Grid
700 Thousandusers
QUICK FIGURES: LBS
I WATCH IT WHEREVER
QUICK FIGURES: MOBILE VIDEO
South Korea has
22 Millionmobile TV subscribers
QUICK FIGURES: MOBILE VIDEO
mobile video upload growth
1 700 Percenton YouTube in the last year
IT’S NOT ALL FANCY EITHER
“please call me”
237per second
7.5 bill ion text messages delivered using Vodaom’s please call me service, in South Africa 2008
QUICK FIGURES
SEEING MORE THAN YOU
Finally, we have a medium that is ubiquitous which allows access to information that fundamentally
impacts on the way we live our lives and go about doing business.
WHERE TO FROM HERE
THANK YOU
Tyler ReedFounder & CEO of TinyImpact
c: +27 82 664 7797m: [email protected]: http://tyler.imt: http://twitter.com/tylerreed
TinyImpactA business that is dedicated to enabling the mobile web through advertising, analytics, commerce and publishing.
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