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New Social Music Sites

By Mark Levy CEO of MaxxoMedia The web has forever changed the way people experience music. Here are a few sites I found this week that are cleverly combining elements of social networks, games and artificial intelligence, enabling people to discover and share music like never before. Music Discovery...

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Applications On the Run

Posted by Mark Levy | Posted in Articles, Mobile | Posted on 11-04-2008

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By Mark Levy, CEO MaxxoMedia

Last week, Las Vegas played host to the telecommunications industry’s annual CTIA conference. Over 20,000 people converged for the event to exhibit and explore the many opportunities of the wireless telecom world. Vendors were on hand to showcase the latest mobile-based applications — here are a few that stood out for me.

PC Games Come To Life On Mobile Phones

Back in 2003, Universal Pictures released “The Incredible Hulk” movie. About one month prior to the movie hitting theatres, I was part of a team that licensed the mobile content rights to the movie from Universal and Marvel. We had the rights to make a mobile game along with releasing various ringtones and graphics. Given the time frame to produce and release the game, we opted to produce a simple puzzle game.