Casual Mobile Snacks for Everyone: "We have a unique opportunity with mobile devices in that they can be insanely personal and private while being incredibly social and contextual (presence, location etc.) They can offer small moments of quiet play or learning—no peers, no pressure—or small moments of highly networked interaction and competition. Not to mention hybrids of the two."

The bandwidth of sex: "as you know, human DNA is a digital information code composed of a sequence of four bases. This means that each base can be represented using two bits of information, and since the human genome has about 3 billion bases, this is equal to 6 gigabits. So you can think of your own genetic information as something that would easily fit on an Ipod Nano! Now the interesting thing is that you get half that information from your mother, and the other half from your father. But your father's part of the information had to be transmitted to your mother through an act of sexual congress (unless you are a test tube baby), and given the amount of time it took him to "transmit," you can calculate the bandwidth of the connection between your mom and dad."

Martin Sorrell on companies and speed: "The people running traditional companies do not move rapidly enough. It is impossible to change a company rapidly enough in this era of technological change... If the base business is under attack you can do some things with the base business but the people running the base business cannot move quickly enough."

MobileActive: "MobileActive is reaching out globally seeking examples and case studies of activist campaigns that make use of mobile phones. We're trying to track down campaigns using mobile phones for awareness building, voter registration, civic participation, event mobilization, fundraising and more"

How does on-portal time translate to revenue?: "However, I did find it surprising that O2's i-mode users spend twice as long online as their WAP users. It would be interesting to compare the respective i-mode and WAP data ARPU figures to see whether this translates into realisable revenue for O2,""