Pat Phelan: Bits, bytes and telecomsMobile, Roaming and Social Media

I decided to sit back and watch the reactions to Microsoft’s purchase of Skype before I made any comment, well done Om for gazumping everyone. Firstly, a couple of interesting points 1. Microsoft paid around $1000 per customer (imagine Facebook at that kind of valuation) 2. A lot of sites reported that Google and Facebook were in [...]

Unless you have been hiding under a rock all week you will no doubt have heard of Quora, if not, what’s Quora? Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it. Milo loves it and thinks “it will be the next twitter” and usually as my colleagues will [...]

We are just back from our holidays and I really thought that with Foursquare and a ton of MAXROAM credit that we were going to find all these little off the beaten track places or these amazing places to eat suggested by my 791 friends a number of which live are or are from the [...]

I have been thinking about writing this for the past few weeks and my buddy Om gave me the shove to do it yesterday with his post “FourSquare’s Crowley on Facebook, Check-in Fatigue & the Copy Cats” This post is absolute killer to write given my past positivity and possible giddiness on location based services. [...]

Groupon the Chicago based coupon/discount company yesterday announced that they had completed at raise at a $1.35 billion valuation. Always nice to be proved right though, I have been ranting to anyone who will listen for the past three years about discount vouchers and I think that Groupon are only scratching the surface. So what [...]

I had to read and re-read this a number of times before it sunk in. “Zynga Was the Number-Two PayPal Merchant in 2009″. Unless you lived on another planet in 2009 you would have heard about Farmville and Mafia War’s but the figures being mentioned around Zynga now are really quite incredible. Russia’s Digital Sky [...]

As I said in my last post 2010 involves some big changes for me. I have this urge to get fit and not to die young, its that serious. One of the really cool devices which I have purchased is Withings a wifi enabled scales which pushes your weight to where you decide. I have [...]

I have written on this extensively before and will keep this post short but with all the handbags being swung here I thought it might be an idea to do a simple real world experiment to show why PR isn’t necessary any more for smaller brands. So its Sunday morning and your head is lifting [...]

You are now familiar with my regular cyber squatting on Pat’s blog. Today 1 year after this post we are going to see if Twitter can be mainstream and still be interesting. In last few weeks celebrities took over our favorite social medium. Not that it bothers me. Twitter is a democracy. My issue is [...]

To celebrate winning the best phone award at the Mobile World Congress 3 the mobile network have given me a fantastic new INQ1 to give away on this post. Even the worlds hottest telecoms blogger loves it “With INQ1 you can have Facebook© on your mobile like never before. You get Facebook© alerts direct to [...]