Mobile Developer Summit 2010 : Prototyping SMS/Voice Services

Last week, I was at Nimhans, Bangalore talking on Prototyping SMS & Voice services to the audience of Mobile Developer Summit 2010. Here are the slides + photos from the event.

The Secret Powers of Time

Really interesting talk and a wonderful illustratiion by cognitivemedia.

Samsung Shakedown

Nice AD Campaign

Disappearing Car Door

Very interesting concept and prototype.

I can see some safety issues here though. But, on the whole, I liked it!

Durex Baby on iPhone

This is just tooooo good!!!!! Very creative!

Audi Ad – Jack in the box

Jack in the Box

Mobile Phone Number Suspended After 3 Users Die In 10 Years

A mobile phone company has suspended the number 0888 888 888 – after every single person assigned to it died in the last 10 years. [via telegraph]

The first owner Vladimir Grashnov – the former CEO of Bulgarian mobile phone company Mobitel which issued the number – died of cancer in 2001 aged just 48.

Despite a spotless business record there were persistent rumors that his cancer had been caused by a business rival using radioactive poisoning.

The number then passed to Bulgarian mafia boss, Konstantin Dimitrov, who was gunned down in 2003 by a lone assassin in the Netherlands during a trip to inspect his £500 million drug smuggling empire.

Dimitrov, who died aged 31, had the mobile with him when he was shot while eating out with a model.

Russian mafia bosses – jealous of his drug smuggling operation – were said to have been behind the killing.

The phone number then passed to Konstantin Dishliev, a crooked businessman, who was gunned down outside an Indian restaurant in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia after taking over the jinxed line.

Dishliev, an estate agent, had secretly been running a massive cocaine trafficking operation before his assassination in 2005.

He died after £130 million of the drug was intercepted by police on its way into the country from Colombia.

Since then, the number is understood to have been dormant while police maintained an open file on Dishliev’s killing and his smuggling ring.

Now phone bosses are said to have suspended the number for good. Callers now get a recorded message saying the phone is “outside network coverage.”

A Mobitel spokesman would only say: “We have no comment to make. We won’t discuss individual numbers.”

Facebook Parodies

Precisely!
I have always wondered what’s so exciting about the Farmville and MafiaWars games. These videos explains .

I am wondering why the Zynga folks haven’t sued them yet!

Miniwagon Rap

Loved this TV commercial.

HQ – MINIVAN RAP – SWAGGER WAGON -

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