The Law of Mobility talks about value increasing with mobility. The impact of this law is being felt because the barriers to building mobility in are being obliterated week after week. Here are examples of technology advances enabling this to happen:
Archive for August, 2006
Enabling Technology: Week of 8/20/06
Sunday, August 27th, 2006Indicators: Week of 8/20/06
Sunday, August 27th, 2006More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Each week we will track indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:
Complete Lists Now Available
Saturday, August 26th, 2006I’ve written a simple program to extract from my weekly listing posts all of the individual entries and compile them into a complete list for each category. So, for example, you can now get to one list of all 288 converged products that have been listed since the Law of Mobility blog was first launched.
The lists are accessible from the right hand navigation bar under “Complete Lists”, or here they are for easy reference:
Capturing the Power: Week of 8/20/06
Saturday, August 26th, 2006Mobility is a wonderful thing. As mobility gets built into all products and services, businesses need to learn how to both capture the power of mobility and manage the dangers introduced through mobility. Here are some examples of how the power of mobility is being applied to create competitive advantage:
Managing the Danger: Week of 8/20/06
Saturday, August 26th, 2006In order to be winners in the new mobile era, businesses will not only need to capture the power of mobility, but also manage the danger. Highlighted below are recent examples of the danger of mobility and how some firms are beginning to manage it:
Converged Products: Week of 8/20/06
Friday, August 25th, 2006The most convenient way that mobility is getting built into products is through the convergence into the cellphone of capabilities that previously existed as standalone products. That way, those products are now with you and available for your use whenever you need them wherever you go.
- Cellphone as sales tool
- Cellphone as auction paddle
- Cellphone as “a remote for your life”
- Cellphone as child locator
- Cellphone as campus directory
- Cellphone as digital audio player
- Cellphone as song identifier
- Cellphone as alarm clock
- Cellphone as business card scanner
- Cellphone as DVD player (kinda)
- Cellphone as flashlight
- Cellphone as TV
- Cellphone as modem
- Cellphone as bomb detonator
- Cellphone as Spanish social network
- Cellphone as VoIP phone
Mobile Music: Back to School Edition
Monday, August 21st, 2006If I were half my age and packing my car for a long drive back to university, here’s the playlist I’d likely queue up for going mobile:
Indicators: Week of 8/13/06
Sunday, August 20th, 2006More and more, the world around us reflects the growing assumption of the law of mobility. Each week we will track indicators of Mobility’s growing importance in our businesses, our lives, and our society:
Enabling Technology: Week of 8/13/06
Sunday, August 20th, 2006The Law of Mobility talks about value increasing with mobility. The impact of this law is being felt because the barriers to building mobility in are being obliterated week after week. Here are examples of technology advances enabling this to happen:
Capturing the Power: Week of 8/13/06
Saturday, August 19th, 2006Mobility is a wonderful thing. As mobility gets built into all products and services, businesses need to learn how to both capture the power of mobility and manage the dangers introduced through mobility. Here are some examples of how the power of mobility is being applied to create competitive advantage: