Zedmo https://blog.zedmo.com A new way to get social Mon, 03 May 2010 22:03:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.31 Vote! Why do you use social location apps? https://blog.zedmo.com/2010/05/vote-why-do-you-use-social-location-apps/ Mon, 03 May 2010 22:03:02 +0000 http://blog.zedmo.com/?p=65 Zedmo is presenting at Northern Voice, May 7-8 in Vancouver! We will be discussing social location apps, like Foursquare, Gowalla, and Zedmo. In the meantime, we’d love to get your feedback on why you use these kinds of applications in your life. We’ll be discussing the results during the presentation.


]]> Zedmo at 140tc The Twitter Conference in Seattle https://blog.zedmo.com/2010/04/zedmo-at-140tc-the-twitter-conference-in-seattle/ Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:00:15 +0000 http://blog.zedmo.com/?p=55 Daniel and Noah from Zedmo were recently down in Seattle for The Twitter Conference, put on by Parnassus Group. Here we are with the HootSuite owl:

Noah (@nbloom) and Daniel (@dwolfe56) from @Zedmo

]]> Zedmo Timberwolf Amber Ale https://blog.zedmo.com/2010/01/zedmo-timberwolf-amber-ale/ Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:13:24 +0000 http://blog.zedmo.com/?p=48 Introducting… Zedmo Timberwolf Amber Ale!

Well, maybe for now it’s just a label, which we designed with the legendary Dave Shea, but the beer will come soon. Stay tuned.

Zedmo Timberwolf Amber Ale

How cool is that design? Manly enough for you?

]]> Zedmo comes to Bootup Labs & Vancouver https://blog.zedmo.com/2009/12/zedmo-comes-to-bootup-labs-vancouver/ https://blog.zedmo.com/2009/12/zedmo-comes-to-bootup-labs-vancouver/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:57:33 +0000 http://blog.zedmo.com/?p=46 The Zedmo team is thrilled to announce that we’ve been accepted to the Bootup Labs January cohort. This means that starting January, our founding team will be setting our physical roots in the beautiful and tech-savvy city of Vancouver to embark on this successful accelerator program.

What is Zedmo? Zedmo helps you find events and social topics. You can check it out at zedmo.com or m.zedmo.com on your mobile device, but our official launch is coming in January. Be warned — the app is still fairly bare-boned — but we’re still listening to any feedback you have. Try us through our contact page or Twitter user @Zedmo.

Update: Zedmo is no longer with Bootup. It was a good two months, and we have amicably parted ways. The details about the four companies leaving Bootup were not represented properly in the Bootup post and should remain confidential.

]]> https://blog.zedmo.com/2009/12/zedmo-comes-to-bootup-labs-vancouver/feed/ 1 Is Zedmo live? https://blog.zedmo.com/2009/11/is-zedmo-live/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:15:03 +0000 http://blog.zedmo.com/?p=30 Have you been to zedmo.com, and have you started playing around? Well, yes, it’s “live” but not quite public yet! You’re welcome to play around with it, on your computer and your mobile device (zedmo.com and m.zedmo.com respectively), but it’s still a bit buggy. Stay tuned, we’ll let you know when we’re working fully and full of great events and channels. Any day now… and we are very stoked.

If you have any comments in the meantime, please don’t hesitate. Check out our contact page or just @reply us on Twitter (@zedmo).

]]> Users are still frustrated with the mobile web https://blog.zedmo.com/2009/10/users-are-still-frustrated-with-the-mobile-web/ Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:26:15 +0000 http://blog.zedmo.com/?p=27 Gomez, a web application experience management services provide, just commissioned a report on mobile web usage. FierceWireless gave the scoop on some important findings:

  • 2/3 users have had problems using the mobile web
  • Half of mobile web users are willing to wait only 6 to 10 seconds or less for a web page to load on their phone before giving up
  • More than two thirds of respondents said they would be unlikely to recommend a mobile website they had trouble accessing

What does this mean?
People want the mobile internet faster and more reliable and are likely to give up if made to wait too long. Mobile developers ought to continue to consider optimizing content for smaller screens and slower access speeds.

]]> Stay up to date at NorthGeek.com https://blog.zedmo.com/2009/04/stay-up-to-date-at-northgeekcom/ Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:48:45 +0000 http://blog.zedmo.com/?p=25 While you stay tuned for lots to come here at the Zedmo blog, keep up to date with all your lifestyle and tech goodness at NorthGeek.com, our alter-project, and follow NorthGeek on Twitter.

NorthGeek.com

]]> 13 reasons why location-based services could grow bigtime by 2013 https://blog.zedmo.com/2008/04/13-reasons-why-location-based-services-could-grow-bigtime-by-2013/ Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:11:50 +0000 http://blog.zedmo.com/?p=23 That would be 13 billion reasons: “Mobile location-based services will generate annual global revenues of $13.3 billion by 2013 up from $515 million in 2007 according to a new forecast released by market analysis firm ABI Research.”

]]> AT&T wireless service revenues surge due to data usage AKA iPhone sales? https://blog.zedmo.com/2008/04/att-wireless-service-revenues-surge-due-to-data-usage-aka-iphone-sales/ Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:57:52 +0000 http://blog.zedmo.com/?p=20 AT&T today announced 22% increase in profits in 1Q08 from 1Q07 up to $3.46B. Of much interest to us here at Zedmo is how important the growth in wireless data revenues to this surge. From their announcement: “wireless data revenues grew 57.3 percent versus results in the year-earlier first quarter to $2.3 billion reflecting robust increases in Internet access e-mail messaging data access and media bundles. Data now represents 21.5 percent of AT&T’s total wireless service revenues.”

Wow.

Well if we must let’s consider how much is attributable to iPhone sales (of course you can’t even legitimately buy the Apple iPhone anywhere else in North America!):

  • 73% of iPhones in the US are still locked to AT&T
  • The average iPhone user spends more than $90 a month on wireless service, including Internet access, text messaging, and other features. Compare that to the $50.18 average for all of AT&T’s wireless customers!
  • The iPhone (plus Apple’s WiFi-only iPod Touch) is the most used mobile browser for Internet access in the US. (Actually Symbian OS still leads globally.)
  • BUT… Apple is receiving $3 a month from AT&T for each iPhone user and an additional $8 a month for new subscribers to AT&T’s network lured by the iPhone.

So while one might be tempted to see where these subsidies fit into AT&T’s income statements how much this eats into the otherwise glorious iPhone usage payments and how Apple has this death-grip upon AT&T couldn’t we instead just be excited about the long-awaited catalyst to “The Great American Mobile Web Revolution?” I sure am and everyday consider dumping my beloved Symbian device for one.

]]> Location Based Services: Desperately Seeking Service https://blog.zedmo.com/2008/03/location-based-services-desperately-seeking-service/ Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:55:31 +0000 http://blog.zedmo.com/?p=18 Here’s a flare but yet inspiring panel video by Martyn Warwick and the TelecomTV team onsite at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona a few weeks ago. The title is “Location Based Services: Desperately Seeking Service” and it was attended by Michael O’Hara from Microsoft and Mike Amorosa from True Position. We at Zedmo got a very different takeaway from this — that the larger companies are focused on building the backend to enable LBS services but not actually building the innovative services themselves. It’s up to some risky and creative companies to take advantage of the peculiarities of mobility and geo-tagging that they’re enabling. It will also be up to the mobile carriers to embrace data-hungry (but hopefully not too hungry and slow!) applications.

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