Free cellphones to the people!

Free cellphones to the people!

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Apparently that is the future according to many and not very suprising Google thinks so too. Here is an article by Eric Auchard at Reuters, with an interview with Googles CEO Eric Schmidt –
INTERVIEW – Google CEO sees free mobile phones, funded by ads.

Amazingly this exist in a new startup, Blyk, with an impressive team. Marko Ahtisaari, the former Director of Design Strategy at Nokia, is their head of Brand and Design. Several similar attempts have been made all with more or less success The free PC project some eight years ago in France for instance.

Lets watch and see. It is a fun approach, but I am sceptical, yet optimistic that it could work. The question is more whether the market is ready or not. It wasn’t nearly ten years ago, but might now.

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Erik is currently an Innovation Coach at the AT&T Foundry. Erik was the CTO of Spot.us, a global platform for community-funded local reporting (winner of the Knight News Challenge). Previously, Erik co-founded Allvoices.com, where he served as the VP of Social Media and User Interface. Allvoices.com is a global community that shares news, videos, images and opinions. At the Reuters Digital Vision Program at Stanford University between 2005-2006, he created the website inthefieldONLINE.net, which drew widespread recognition from major global media including PBS, CNN and BBC, and was featured on Discovery International’s Rewind 2006 as one of the 25 highlights of the Year.

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eriks

Erik is currently an Innovation Coach at the AT&T Foundry. Erik was the CTO of Spot.us, a global platform for community-funded local reporting (winner of the Knight News Challenge). Previously, Erik co-founded Allvoices.com, where he served as the VP of Social Media and User Interface. Allvoices.com is a global community that shares news, videos, images and opinions. At the Reuters Digital Vision Program at Stanford University between 2005-2006, he created the website inthefieldONLINE.net, which drew widespread recognition from major global media including PBS, CNN and BBC, and was featured on Discovery International’s Rewind 2006 as one of the 25 highlights of the Year.

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