Interesting interview with Kei-ichi Enoki, executive VP at NTT DoCoMo: "Videoconferencing--this is part of your job. There is no preference to it; you have to do it whether you like it or not. We think that there is a market there, but that market itself will be small. If it goes to the consumers, I think that means a greater expansion of the market for us. But one issue is that you don't always want to use a TV phone. It is not an issue about technology; this is maybe more of a psychological issue."

Lists of links, with perhaps a pithy piece of sarcasm or a quote appended, are all I have time for this week:

• "They Stopped Calling It Rendezvous" - or, Using iTunes Playlists For Communication.
• Infospace forms a mobile game unit
• A Force More Powerful: "a nonviolent strategic simulation game", which reminded me of this story.
• Two wonderful things from We Make Money Not Art: AudioCubes, and the MIDI sock puppet.
• Interview with Brent and Sheila of Ranchero
• More on casual gaming from MobileGirl.
• For Mr Walsh and Dr Dan, "Methods of Defense Against Brute Force", from an 1840s manual. Hmm... familiar?
• Lovely mobile car ad campaign. Kicking myself that we haven't been suggesting this...
• Massively Multiplayer Online Dating Games: "A game specifically targeted to dating and socialising: as a dating service. Not as a game. Not as part of a game (SWG's character matching, etc). Not as a chat room, not as a Metaverse, not There.com but as a direct and simple service. Using a game environment in a serious - yet playful, very necessary for dating - way. "
• Rag Doll Kung Fu

Hmm, 4 of the above directly relate to Stuff We Have On...

Smart companies are harnessing the creativity of their customers: "Not only is the customer king: now he is market-research head, R&D chief and product-development manager, too."

More red hot Hume action, courtesy of cousin Nol: "Hume portrays his desperation as comprehension finally comes fiercely."

Wow - according to this interview with a guy at Nokia who's probably spent waaay more time thinking about TV content than I have, what people really want on their mobiles are not designed-for-mobile bits of video, but full broadcast stuff - what they see on their TV day-to-day.

That goes completely against what I've been anticipating, and whilst I'm suspicious that his view may be focus group-driven (asking people what they want, not watching them to find out)... he's seen the research and I haven't. Related Forum Nokia info lives here.