"a peak of over 2,000 SMS votes per second across its award-winning voting platform, VoteWinner, during the grand final of The X Factor, which was held on Saturday 16 December 2006."

"For the 50 days covering the period of the Christian celebration of Lent, those signing up will get a daily text message encouraging them to behave in a more Christian manner."

Seems glance-ish to me. Want nicer interface than the web-based one and not managed to get IM working yet... (I also finder twitter less intrusive than IM)

"it wasn't being reasonable, it wasn't an apology - it was extravagance, it was panache, it was that "aw f--k it' gesture, where you throw it all away, jumping completely out of the fight/flight equation and end up somewhere else."

Jobs: “Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain.”

""Users are creating free content for YouTube. Maybe the question should be, 'How much is YouTube paying its users'", said Kenswil."

Fantastic book.

Excellent analysis

Nice idea, and something that suits any pen/touch-based UI I reckon (no idea why UIQ don't have this for the P900 series). But nothing new - Black&White had these didn't it?

Anyone for a riot?

"this is how network operators like it - and it's their network"

I want to play more of these :)

Boom boom!

"One huge advantage of having a Sky mobile brand would be the opportunity to use the mobile as the back channel - just by linking the mobile number with a subscribers set top box "

Amazing interfaces

I'd echo this experience, advertising a company. Ran a full-page mag at in The New Media Magazine at the height of the dot-com boom. Resulting calls: 2, both from folks I already knew to say "nice ad".

Some interesting analysis brought together here, but nothing ground-breaking.