GoLive! Mobile Blog

Perhaps one of the most interesting projects we’ve been a part of is our recent collaboration with the FBI to provide a text messaging platform for citizens to send in anonymous tips. The initiative should launch some time in the first quarter of ‘08, and will be the first of its kind in the U.S.

The FBI currently offers a number of ways for citizens to send in anonymous tips, so it is logical that they are pursuing a mobile options considering cell phones are the primary form of communication for a large percentage of Americans.

Will the public use it though?

While that remains to be seen, in my opinion it’s inevitable that the public will eventually be using this method of reporting an anonymous tip.

We have quietly launched our “Matrix” Mobile Application Server over the past few weeks, primarily filling backlog orders from existing clients which were made while we were finishing development. I blogged about Matrix a while ago while we were still in development so please read that post for further details. Matrix is essentially a Mobile Application Server for the hosting, distribution, and billing for mobile apps written for J2ME/Windows Mobile/Symbian/BlackBerry/etc. The product targets mobile application developers and mobile game developers who are creating multiple versions or “ports” of an application to support the various mobile OS’s, standards, and handsets.

While we’ve done various mobile game and mobile app projects on a one-off basis, Matrix is a true, turn-key solution for this segment. We’ve been working on it for almost a year now..

To learn more about the Matrix Mobile Application Server check out our website:

http://www.golivemobile.com/matrix.htm

Well…I guess everyone with half a brain expected AT&T to perpetually push back the OPPC launch date as they have been doing. I blogged about OPPC a couple months ago if you’re not sure what I’m talking about. The bottom line here is, OPPC is a tremendous undertaking and has encountered some significant hiccups which AT&T is working out.

There has been problems with duplicate subscriptions that AT&T has recently addressed, as well as multitudes of carrier/aggregator provisioning errors and connectivity issues.

Reliability of the START notifications which notify of successful double opt-in are also of grave concern around the industry…while content provider control has gone down dramatically, there is no doubt that the system poses significant protections and enhancements to AT&T subscribers and the industry at large.

Mobile search has garnered a ton of Venture Capital investment over the past year, and we at GoLive! Mobile have seen a definite explosion in the number of clients pursuing applications in this space. We have powered over a dozen mobile search applications in the past year — large and small, premium-rate and standard-rate, WAP based and SMS based, and on and on. Heck, we even launched our own mobile search application to demonstrate the power of SMS-2-WAP as the ultimate mobile search combination.

Of all the services GoLive! is powering in this space, though, I must say that my favorite is Johnn27.com — a pure SMS based mobile search application which employs college students around the country to answer your search queries for $1.99 per query. The service provides spectacularly human and useful responses, unlike the automated services such as Google SMS.

You can try Johnny27 by texting any question to the short code 272727.