Archive for December, 2009

Smartphones Generate Most Mobile Web Traffic

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Smartphones generated 48% of mobile web and app traffic on the AdMob ad network in November, 2009, according to a study of its users by AdMob.  A year ago, 30% of all traffic came from Smartphones.

Bringing Money to Your Blog

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

If you are an active blogger like I am, you know how hard it is to attract an audience.  And, if you succeed in attracting a decent sized audience, the next thing you want to know is how to monetize all of that hard work that you put into your blog site.
Infolinks offers in text [...]

Web Hosting Rating

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

A good comparison site when it comes to webmaster tools is critical to the overworked entrepreneur.  A comparison guide to web hosting can be one of those tools.
The host of this site is Blue Host.  I selected them after going through lots and lots of offers.  Pricing differences were minor, but features were most important [...]

We all Need Some Geeks

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

If you are involved or interested in mobile marketing, chances are that you have also been active with your own web sites for several years now.  At the core of owning your own web site or blog is web site hosting.  That is, unless you want to use the hosting provided by Blogger, Wordpress, or similar.
Most people [...]

Local Mobile Search

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

It should not surprise anybody that the most popular searches being done on the local mobile internet are the following:

Directories — 42%
Maps — 41%
Restaurants — 37%
Movies — 30%

(Source — TMP Directional Marketing study)

Treasure Chest of Mobile Marketing Articles

Monday, December 14th, 2009

If you are looking to get up to speed on mobile marketing applications, a great place to start would be the Delicious page of Neustar’s Omar El-Ezaby.  It has over a hundred pages and over a thousand articles that he has bookmarked.
It’s a great resource for those of you involved in mobile marketing.
Take a look, [...]

Cheaters Can’t Cover Digital Tracks

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

by Bob Bentz
Tiger Woods has mastered every possible shot on the golf course, but one thing he hasn’t mastered is his
own cell phone.
Cocktail waitress Jaimee Grubbs has produced over 300 salacious text messages that she received from Tiger.  Las Vegas nightclub hostess to the stars, Rachel Uchitel, was texting Woods just before the auto accident.  [...]

Tiger’s Sexting Text Messages

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Tiger Woods transcripts of text messages with Jaimee Grubbs.
Tiger: Hey Sexy I can’t come out this week. Something came up family wise (July 20, 3:04 p.m.)
Jaimee: That’s okay I hope everything is fine … would have liked to see you
Tiger: We will make it happen
Jaimee: I drove out for the night [...]

Yahoo Betting on Mobile

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc expects “exponential” growth in mobile advertising even as the overall

market is only starting to emerge from its deep downturn, a top executive of the Internet media company said on Thursday.
Yahoo’s mobile advertising business, while small, has seen substantial growth, and the company is focused on boosting the number of [...]

Tiger Sexting

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

If you are a regular reader of the Text Message Blog, you know that we spend a lot of time writing about
sexting.  Why?
Why not?  It gets readers to visit us.
The latest, and possibly biggest ever, celebrity to go on a sexting binge is none other than Tiger Woods.
Sexting is a term used to describe the [...]