[thelist] wireless

[Steve Cook]

I think this is pretty fair, though the categories are of course extremely
broad and cross over quite a bit. I mean "location based services" covers a
LOT of territory. 

For myself, I think the most realistic business plans are where wireless is
included as a part of a holistic approach. Like a ticket company who deliver
wireless alerts, or a city tourism guide who have a full website with colour
photos and video tours of a city, but who allow one to choose that during a
certain time period, information of interest about a particular location
will be pushed to the mobile device. A location based tour guide in effect.

Even online games are spreading to use wireless devices to deepen the
illusion. I have a friend who is working on developing online games that
encompass everything from a graphical Mud (like Ultima Online or something),
to fax and telephone services to truly involve the user in the experience.
WAP services will be a part of their overall strategy.

Of course the current state of the art is very basic - it reminds me of when
I started developing for the web in fact :-) (even down to the "This sucks!
There's too few sites to make it worthwhile" arguments we are hearing now!)

My 2 öre!

.steve



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Van Dijck [mailto:peter at vardus.com]
> Sent: den 4 december 2000 21:23
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: [thelist] wireless
> 
> 
> I have to make a list of realistic business plans for the 
> wireless net. I'm 
> a bit baffled, here's what I got:
> m-commerce
> voice
> messaging
> location based services
> games
> 
> What do you think about these? What am I missing? examples? 
> References? Thanks!
> Peter
> 
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