Thursday 29 May 2008

Mobile Share Trader

The world's first 'white-label mobile share trading platform' has just been launched.
How do I know that it is the world's first? Truth be told - I don't, I'm guessing.
Googling did not throw up any other white label m - share trading application.

Have a look at the Mobile Share Trader site


Wouldn't it be a good idea to have a website which just offers trading on blue chip
companies from a mobile phone?

Tuesday 22 April 2008

Call the police - a status is born Nomobility

A word is born NOMOBILITY, a lighter state of being is on the horizon
- nomobility.
I could hyphenate it, nomo-bility. Do with it what you like. It flirts
lightly with the word nobility and describes a person who is pleased and
proud NOT to be seen with a mobile phone. A free-thinker perhaps?

It started one evening when I decided to visit my new neighbour and family
and we had such a great time that I didn't notice the time passing. When I
got home at 11:45my partner had called the police and weeks later I am
still listed as a missing person . It's oddly amusing.

Nevertheless I now walk the streets of my London neighbourhood without a
mobile phone and I feel lighter enobled even (enomobiled).

Let it roll of your tongue, say "at last I am nomobiled".

Monday 14 April 2008

Nomosexuality

And there I was thinking I am funny. In my previous blog
today I mentioned the similiarities between the new
buzzword Nomophobia and Homophobia and cracked half a
joke about nomosexuality thinking I was the first person
to use it.

Well I just googled the word and it turns out that nomosexuality
describes people who don't have any need for the base physicality
the rest of us quite likes to indulge in.

Nomophobia and living as a No-Mo

A friend of mine works for the Post Office UK, and he told me
how the latest buzzword 'Nomophobia' came to enter the virtual ether.

Patrick O'Neill the clearly very creative 'Head of Communications'
at the Post Office came up with this term just one week ago, and
already Google is showing 80.000 links to different sites picking it up,
and guaranteeing it a secure space in our lingo 2008.


Nomo-phobia, stands for 'no mobile - phobia', the fear of not having
access to your mobile phone or being cut off for one reason or another
from your network.

The play on letters with the word homophobia are quite amusing.
Nomophobic as an adverb works, if we decouple it from the word
'phobia' we are looking at a 'No-mo' a person without a mobile phone,
a species which will cease to exist if we don't take make sure that
we continue tolerating it's existence amongst us.

What about no-mo-sexuals? Now I'm getting lost.