Frontiering Talk

Robert Poe from the Dailywireless has a great story on Obopay, which has been able to setup a kind process to allow people to send money to others, as long as both are US phones.

It is kind of the way Paypal allows you to transfer money between email addresses, in that both sender and receiver of the funds has to link a credity card or bank account to their email (in Paypal’s case) or their Phone (in Obopay’s case).

Perspective: This won’t allow people to start buying groceries with their cell phones, but it’s a start and I think will take off with American teens.

Low cost flyer Jetstar has created a new campaign which encourages consumers to drop in pictures of themselves and some friends to create a “wish we were there” post card.

Perspective: It’s not a bad site, easy to use and relevant to the travel category. It’s a good chance for Jetstar to improve their database of potential customers. The post card can not really be personalised with text or your own pictures (apart from the head photos you load), and there was no option to print or save my creation. There is also no gallery of created post cards which I think would work well.