University of Oxford Next Generation Mobile Applications Panel

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Welcome!


The University of Oxford's new Next Generation Mobile Applications Panel ForumOxford has been live since September 2005 and now has over 2000 members from over 80 countries.

Our membership is growing now at 2.3 new members per day. We have over 2500 topics and have become more active, now adding 11 new topics per week, and the discussions in the topic threads have increased: we now average 6.1 comments per thread (or 5.1 replies). In total we have over 6000 comments if you want to read it all, and we added 1441 new comments over the past four months.
(data correct as of July 2008)


Click here for details of the 2009 conference on 24 April.

Our membership is becoming more international. The UK proportion has fallen to under 40% for the first time, at 39%. Our biggest region continues to be rest of Europe at 24% and 292 members. The next largest group comes from Asia (199 members), then North America (162), Africa (40), Oceania (25) and South America (13)


These were our most popular discussion threads over the past few months, in order of popularity (i.e. by most replies) and now also mentioning who launched each of these most popular threads:

  • Three launches flat rate (Dean Bubley) 17
  • Effects of near field communications (Tope Omintola) 18
  • Apple launches games for iPod (William Volk) 18
  • Mobile web vs one web (Barbara Ballard) 19
  • GPS Data to browsers (Peter Cranstone) 19
  • xHTML vs full mobile browser (Ajit Jaokar) 21
  • iPhone tail wags the dog (Ajit Jaokar) 21
  • SMS first in USA (Giff Gfroerer) 22
  • Flash Lite is not WICD but it should (Ajit Jaokar) 27
  • MVNOs MVNOs MVNOs (Tomi Ahonen) 29
  • Mobile web phone (Ajit Jaokar) 30
  • Mobile interactive marketing (Lawrence Zhou) 34
  • US Market fixed price web (Ajit Jaokar) 37
  • FMC What is the value proposition (Ajit Jaokar) 37

... and the most discussed topic over the past 4 months has been:

  • Mobile 2D Barcode services (Peter Cranstone) 42

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