Dr Richard M Marshall

I've always liked to build things. Since I outgrew Lego I've been building software, development teams and most recently companies.

I'm Founder and CTO of Rapid Mobile Media Ltd in Edinburgh, Scotland. We founded the company in February 2004. We mobilise applications, but are now focussing on Ad360 Mobile Advertising Platform.

I like to think of us as creating mobile applications that people actually use, but we go much deeper than that.

This blog, however, is much more about my observations on the last frontier, the world of mobile technology. And anything else that crosses my path.


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Hugely busy week, which is great, but I managed to have some time to have a coffee and chat to Nigel Eccles of Hubdub.com today. As we were swapping notes on our companies, he commented that much as he liked his N95 he found it very hard to find the things he used regularly. I showed him my fully customised so-called ‘active’ main screen and he was amazed. So I showed him how to change the configuration.

He asked a very good question: why does Nokia hide such useful features under many, many levels of clicks? Why aren’t their no-doubt numerous and talented human factors people  allowed to fix this? Good questions, no answers.

[Off this evening to watch my friend Osman Kent of SongPhonic records narrate a show of Turkish Whirling Dervishes at the Edinburgh International Festival. Very cool. No links as the Festival ends this weekend.]

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