Archive for February, 2009

Instant Mobilizer delivers the mobile Web in seconds

February 23rd, 2009 by Marc

instant Mobilizer

dotMobi has just launched Instant Mobilizer. It’s a great tool to get small businesses up-and-running on the mobile Internet. Instant Mobilizer automatically converts websites to a mobile-friendly format. No development effort, hosting or site maintenance needed.

Image of the week

February 20th, 2009 by Herbert

This week’s best image is taken from a movies magazine. Thanks for participating.

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Vote for kooaba

February 20th, 2009 by Marc

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Please vote for us in this competition. In cooperation with ADC*E, the Art Directors Club of Europe, XIPAX is initiating a worldwide creative competition to be operated exclusively online.

XIPAXThe XIPAX community will shortlist the top 10 ads via online voting. The winners will then be judged by a qualified panel of leading creative professionals: the board members of ADC*Europe from 18 countries.

We uploaded some of our work in the Mobile part of XIPAX. Feel free to vote for our campaigns (e.g. for O2, easyJet or Mentos). Thanks in advance for your support!

Win tickets for the International Motor Show

February 17th, 2009 by Marc

Opel Switzerland are raffling not less than 5′000 tickets for the 79th International Motor Show in Geneva with their first interactive print campaign. Have a look at one of the ads:

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To win one of the much sought-after tickets, take a picture of the new Opel Insignia in the ad with your mobile phone and send it via MMS to a shortcode. After the image has been recognized by kooaba’s mobile image recognition service, you will receive a code via SMS which can be entered on DiscoverOpel.ch to see if you’re one of the lucky winners.

Snap a picture!

Image of the week

February 13th, 2009 by Herbert

New on the kooaba blog, we will start the category “image of the week”, which shows each Friday the most impressive image that was recognized during the week.

The image of this week (below on the left) surprised us. It was correctly recognized as the movieĀ Dogville (below on the right).

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13% of Facebook users log in from their mobile phone

February 12th, 2009 by Herbert

With over 220 million users, Facebook’s growth begins to slow down on the traditional Internet. With worldwide over 4 billion mobile phone users, Facebook strategists clearly see the potential for growth in the mobile sector. Already 13% of their users log in from their phones.

Facebook thinks that this trend will go up and begun talks with almost everyone in the business in order to bring more Facebook to more handsets.

The Next Digital Experience

February 10th, 2009 by Marc

We’d like to share a great panel at the World Economic Forum 2009 in Davos with Chad Hurley (YouTube), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Shantanu Narayen (Adobe), Hamid Akhavan (T-Mobile), Eric Clemens (Wharton), Mike Arrington (TechCrunch) and Craig Mundie (Microsoft) about social networking and the future of mobile. Enjoy!