DeepDarkSee

Great trip to Fort Myers to visit my Dad. We rented a boat on Sanibel Island and spent the afternoon on the water (Audrey, Kathryn, my Dad, and me). Saw several pods of dolphins, and jumped almost enough wakes to keep people happy!  I made this recording with my phone, starting when we turned around to head back to the barn. Hey, btw, I’m exercising a new feature of BiM Active, posting to external blogs!

This is hilarious.  The ultimate toying with a telemarketer.

Check out this promotional video of the “Midtown Mall” in Rochester, NY, 1963. I used to go there with my family. My brothers and sister remember that mall vividly, and the animatronics, too.  It’s ironic since the 60′s and early 70′s were a period of inner city decline in cities like Rochester all over the Eastern US.

The Silicone Valley Mobile Monday meeting this month was focused on metrics for the Mobile space. Here are the slide decks from presentations by M:Metrics and Telephia.

Some items that I found interesting…

• 89% growth in downloads revenue over the past year, yet downloads are less than 25% of mobile data revenue
• all mobile data areas are growing, but MMS penetration is going gangbusters
• 43% of people aren’t aware that they can download apps to their phone, 44% have no interest in doing so. That leaves only 13% with an interest in buying/using downloaded apps
• 70% of mobile game revenue is concentrated in the top 10 publishers
• preloaded games still represent almost HALF of games played
• porn is sticky (average session time is 3x longer than other video content)
• 9% of pink RAZRs are carried by men, 7% of magenta RAZRs too