At CES this year I attended several sessions on mobile content, and learned a great deal. One of the main things that I learned is that I am relatively ignorant about this space. I was embarrassed to not know what a MVNO was, and \”off portal\” and \”off deck\” were not in my vocabulary.
But since billions of people will have cell phones in the coming years and my driving interest is to provide wholesome, healthy, educational, historical, genealogical, family and religious content to people everywhere using any device, I need to dive into this space with vigor.
One VC post from last June explains the \”off portal\” concept quite well.
So here are a few questions I\’m going to ask you to help me with.
Question: If you have rights to thousands of songs already, what is the best and fastest way to provide ringtones to mobile phone users? Would you work with an aggregator, or can you write software that cell phone users can download in order to start purchasing directly from you? How exactly does this work?
Second question: Provo Labs needs to hire a world class mobile content and commerce guru. We will have literally millions of pages of content (text, images) and tons of audio and video that we will want to deliver to people on their mobile devices.
What companies in Utah and outside of Utah should we be talking to?
Qpass seems to handle most of the mobile transactions. But I saw a report from Infospace\’s recent earnings call that they reported a huge increase in mobile content transactions as well. Could they be a partner as well?
Does anyone want to join us and help us deliver our valuable and uplifting content to mobile phone users worldwide? Or help us get moving in the right direction?
7 thoughts on “Help Wanted: Mobile Content”
We emailed back and forth a while a ago about a sample mobile payment app that I had written: http://motivatedideas.com/mobilecc/
Then my father-in-law passed away, we sold our house and had a baby one month early (the same day we were moving), so you and I lost contact…
I would like to talk to you about it sometime to see if you think it is a viable option. If you would like to discuss it, please email me.
Thanks
Here is one I just bumped into seconds ago:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=bd3b7c58-4e29-452a-9bbc-bd42c00ff48e
Paypal for your phone…
I think you should approach Brian at http://flingmedia.com/
You may want to contact these people. I have worked with them in the past creating mobile content, and they have what seems to be a good solution
You should talk with these guys.
http://www.zvue.com
Paul I think you should check out http://www.myzus.com, Their founder will be visiting Utah in the next two weeks, so may be a good time to network. You can reach him roshan@myzus.com
Ps: he’s my brother
Cool blog by the way!
Paul I think you should check out ww.myzus.com, Their founder will be visiting Utah in 2 weeks may be a good time to network, You can reach him at roshan@myzus.com
Cool blog by the way!
Hope this is not a re response!