Carnival of the Mobilists No. 20
Great to host such an outstanding group of writers for this week's carnival.
My recommended reading is from Rudy De Waele (from m-trends.org writing at gotomobile blog) for his post about context and the mobile web. Why? Because I think context and user behaviour is one of the most important things anyone creating mobile services should be paying attention to.
Justin Oberman at MoPocket tells the tale of how music lovers could TXT for sweet relief at SXSW, and gives us lots of good reasons why a perfect storm may be brewing to make the mobile phone and cause marketing a perfect couple.
Scott Smith over at Mobile Weblog gives us lots to think about on mobile interface design. Don't you think more improvement in this area along the lines Scott suggests is kind of important?
Nabeel Hyatt at everypoint stirs up some great discussion on his blog about when to build a mobile brand (or at least when not to). He says that web properties porting over content or services to mobile will likely win their category. I'd agree if the mobile company is thinking mobile only, but what if a mobile/web oriented start-up leveraged the phone to beat the web properties at their own game?
Daniel Taylor at the Mobile Enterprise Weblog boldly says that RIM doesn't have a strategy, at least not one that enterprise mobility managers will support.
The exceptionally informative Emily at Smart Mobs posted some research finding that 3G mobiles' change social habits. We know we're only at the beginning ...
The always inspiring and forward thinking MobHappy crew are still waiting for mobile advertising. Carlo gives us some great insight into the disconnect betwen the consumers' unwillingness to pay for rich content, and the carriers' hunger for more revenue.
Darla Mack at the coincidentally named darlamack.com blog reveals to us secrets of the Nokia mobile sites. Imagine the day we can see and use all great mobile applications from around the world on our own phone? Darla gives us an excellent glimpse.
Ajit Jaokar at Open Gardens introduces us to bird mimicry. I have already ordered the "Sparrows that sound like electric can openers" ring tone.
Dennis at Wap Review does his usual fine job of offering developers a great project, this time trying out the Opera Mini on Palm OS 3.5 and 4. He concludes that it might run reliably on pre Palm OS 5, except for slow load times (there is some irony there right?)
Keeping things technical, Martin Sauter continues a perfect three part series on Wireless VOIP demystified, helping explain some serious industry shifting tech.
Tomi Ahonen, from the blog Communites Dominate Brands, points me to his fantastic article on 3G-TV Convergence. If you're doing anything related to video content on the phone, go read this now and save us all from some mediocre approaches that Tomi writes on how to avoid.
Xen Mendelsohn at Xellular Identity asks Confused? Don't be. She reminds us that we're still figuring out all the social norms of presence and accessibility (and, to me at least, the technology too).
Troy Norcross of Mobile Marketing & Spam does some excellent consumer advocacy with a review of hard or soft boiled opt-in.
I hope I covered all the great links sent my way as editor of the week. If I didn't, then this 30 second video clip and my week's entry is for you!
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