STEVE SMITH
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  • Stocking Stuffers: Browsing the Mobile Brands
    "Why are you at the Mobile Wal-Mart site, Dad?" Back in t ...
  • Texting By the Numbers
    Every marketing and media brand starts sniffing around the mobile field fir ...
  • Privacy: On Doing No Harm
    The launch of the AT&T-backed Future of Privacy Forum last month spark ...
  • Playboy: The Mini-Micro Series
    How fitting that in the same week Playboy Enterprises's longtime CEO Christ ...
  • Toward A More Critical Mobility
    Every new medium needs persistent, informed critical perspectives on its product, a ...
  • Show Them You Are Listening
    Profile scraping and usage tracking is one technologically advanced way to levera ...
  • That's (Lord Save Us!) 'Utilitainment'
    My mobile agency contacts have been promising for months now that scor ...
  • Scalable Cool
    Mobilizing the blogosphere seems like a no-brainer, except perhaps when you actual ...
  • The Future Of The Future of Privacy Forum
    Formed last week in Washington, D.C, the Future of Privacy Forum ...
  • Black Friday Mobilized
    Correct me if I am wrong, which I am sure you wil ...
  • Your Site On Android
    Now that HTC estimates it will sell through over 1 million Android-power ...
  • The Value Of Privacy? Make An Offer
    How much is my browsing history worth to me, anyway? Funny y ...
  • Android Teases Me
    If you want a glimpse of a wildly promising mobile future, gr ...
  • Not Mobile Customers, But Mobile Audiences
    From the time I started this column several years ago, one ...
  • Let Your Algorithms Do the Shopping
    While much of behavioral targeting involves profiling usage patterns and content typ ...
  • SMS Ads: Talk to Your Next Date
    "Who are you calling?" my fiancée asks. "A dating service, I thin ...
  • Street Sales: Merchandising iPhone Apps Without the Store
    At our "iPhoning It In" panel during the recent OMMA Mobile conferenc ...
  • Targeting Out Of A Recession
    Joe Apprendi has seen this movie before. The CEO of ad netwo ...
  • Shallow And Sassy
    I have been playing around lately with the limited number of consum ...
  • Building The Better Bottle Opener
    A number of themes and issues from last week's OMMA Mobile sh ...
  • In Search Of Mobile Targeting
    The challenges of tracking, tagging and targeting mobile users is legendary. ...
  • Measuring The Opportunities
    As this column hits your mailbox, OMMA Mobile should be in fu ...
  • Bejeweled Begone
    When I think about all the trouble mobile gaming has had getti ...
  • I Know Just What You Would Like
    Clothing sizes for women are notoriously, maddeningly arbitrary. Two years ago, myShape.c ...
  • Wapped Upside My Head
    According to a recent survey by Azuki systems, 52% of mobile use ...
  • Who Are Your Soldiers?
    Viral marketing campaigns are notoriously unpredictable. Until you send an edgy pie ...
  • Pumping Up Email IQ With Catalog RFM
    In many ways, online behavioral targeting merely formalizes techniques that direct markete ...
  • What's On Tonight?
    This whirlwind tour of mobile video comes to an end for n ...
  • Clip-Snackin' Good
    My ongoing tour of mobile video this week brings me to cl ...
  • Revenue Science: On Standards, Those Verticals, and Independence
    This week, the Behavioral Targeting Standards Consortium (BTSC), announced an Advisory Boa ...