MasabiThe ticket machine in your pocket
Masabi are currently on the lookout for a server developer to join our team working from our London South Bank office.
Firstly: NO AGENCIES OR RECRUITERS! We are interested in pro-active candidates who are motivated enough to find us by themselves.
DEVELOP SOMETHING AMAZING AND USEFUL
Ending the pain of queues at Railway stations, Masabi is [...]
There has to be a compelling user benefit, or significant user pain to persuade somebody to try a new technology.
There also has to be a compelling business benefit, (preferably with a year-one breakeven these days) for the service to ever get the marketing and promotion it needs.
After many trials, NFC has been on the cusp of launching in Europe for some time now. It is regularly brought up in conjunction with mobile ticketing, which has been one of the key use cases always quoted for the Felica NFC system available in Japan for some years now.
The potential is huge – but where do we stand, in late October 2009?
We’re finally able to show off some of the work we’ve been doing recently on local mobile webapps – interactive web pages which can be saved and run even when you’re offline…
I’m just back from presenting at the excellent Global Messaging 2009 event in Westminster, on the subject of what makes a good mobile service in the context of mobile ticketing and payments:
Global Messaging 2009 – Mobile Ticketing and Payments
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It covers some of our standard reference points, like the need for [...]
I’ll be giving a talk on Secure Payment and Ticketing Applications at day 2 of Global Messaging Congress 2009 on Wednesday at the Queen Elizabeth centre in Westminster, so if you’re at the conference please come along, and I look forward to meeting you afterwards! I’ll post the slides up here as well, for [...]
Last night Ben presented at Mobile Monday London’s demo night round the corner at IPC’s office behind the Tate Modern. Ben was presenting our mobile train ticketing solution, and it seemed to go down pretty well. Also there was a great roof terrace and free beer – almost enough to make me code [...]
Carnival of the Mobilists 177 over at A Consuming Experience included my last post on Sony-Ericsson, thanks! As always the Carnival covers a whole range of great articles, check it out for the best in mobile writing.Incidentally I met Improbulus, who runs A Consuming Experience, whilst screening entries for the Vodafone Clicks competition last week [...]
Another chance to meet up with Masabi, when we speak on the Thursday afternoon of Train Communications 2009, held at the Royal Horseguards Hotel, near Charing Cross in London on 11th June 2009.
http://www.traincomms2009.com/
(This conference used to be known as the Wifi on Trains conference.)
Among the presenters will be train companies from India, Japan, Taiwan, the [...]
Write up of the recent Intelligent Transport Systems‘ Seminar on Standards in UK Ticketing Wed 27th May 2009:
[ WARNING: The top third is mobile ticketing, the rest is more general transport stuff ]
Chair: Chris Queree, ATOC (Association of Train Operating Companies)
Speakers:
Ben Whitaker, Masabi
Andy Donelan, Virgin Trains
Grant Klein, Detica
Mark Cartwright, RTIG (Real Time Information Group)
Roger [...]