The other day, Springwise.com had a post titled “Audiobooks for phones” about a product and company in Sweden.
Bokilur is Swedish for book on phone. And the company offers exactly that: audiobooks for cellphones. …
Books are usually split into 5 parts, each of which costs SEK 30 (USD 4.10/EUR 3.25), and is between [...]
Tag Archives: cell-phones
read a good bokilur lately?
26 Jul 06 – 10:31 pm
gaming in libraries: old idea
20 Jul 06 – 8:13 am
Some have tried smoking rooms, had boy’s club rooms and games, and many have tried simply to make the rooms homelike and cheery, and all of their experience is valuable to us.- “The Library as Social Centre“, the opening address of the Minnesota Library Association, October 12, 1905, by Miss Gratia Alta Countryman
Read the [...]
say “buy” with your phone
13 Mar 06 – 11:01 pm
While I’m on the topic of phones…
Today I came across some very potentially important news . Sprint is partnering with movie ticketing giant/annoying ad purveyor Fandango to sell and issue movie tickets via cell phones. The issuing mechanism is pretty novel. Once tickets are purchased, a message including a scannable barcode is [...]
bad sign
7 Feb 06 – 6:14 pm
Hot on the heels of my post about libraries trusting patrons, and writing a sentence about drinks (gasp!) in our buildings, I walk into a local library and see this sign. Does this make anyone else as sad as it does me? Why does this library want to treat their [...]
mobile madness
13 Nov 05 – 10:32 pm
A Japanese primate researcher announced the other day that mobile phones are turning Japanese youth into apes. Or at least that’s the sensational way to put it.
“Parents let their kids go out because they think they’re only a phone call away. And even if the kid doesn’t come home, parents don’t call them because [...]
sms numbers
28 Mar 05 – 4:09 pm
There isn’t a full report, but PEW Internet /American Life has a ‘PIP Comment’ out titled
do i know you?
4 Dec 04 – 7:40 pm
Something struck me as my friends and I were killing time during the (god-awful aneurysm inducing) commercials before a film last night. We were paying absolutely no mind to each other (nor the commercials). I realized that we were all using our phones when one friend exclaimed to another, “My tetris [...]
RefSMS
3 Nov 04 – 4:11 pm
If you thought Reference by Instant Messaging was progressive, what do you think about Reference by SMS?
For those of you not familiar, Short Messaging Service (SMS) is the feature available on the majority of cell phones that people use to send not voice messages but text messages to other cell phones (or some IM [...]
Yahoo! Alerts, eh.
30 Sep 04 – 9:14 pm
About two months ago I wrote about Yahoo! Alerts beta. Here is a followup to that.
For the past two months I’ve been receiving probably 15 text messages per day from Yahoo! One of these is a weather report for the next day, and the rest are ‘breaking news’ stories. While I still [...]
silence is golden
1 Sep 04 – 5:50 pm
I’m sure every one of us has found a cell phone user annoying at some point, but the Huntington Beach Public Library must have been pushed over the edge. According to some news stories they have put in place a drastic fine schedule for disobeying their no cell phone use policy. After an [...]
