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This weeks’ Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted at the Wireless World Forum and edited by Jan Kuczynski. Jan did an excellent job compiling the best blog articles on mobile the carnival offers each week.
So head over to number 34 of the Carnival of the Mobilists and make sure you check the new Mobilistas category […]

Are we living throught the birth of a new industry? I believe recommendation and discovery technologies are critical for the development of the digital revolution. If the search technologies became a need when information went digital and people started to need tools to find relevant info, the recommendation technologies are needed in a society that […]

While some of us are working and wondering what’s going to be the next new business model or next killer application in mobile technology, other people in different parts of the world are using the mobile phone to fight injustice. Trixie Concepcion of TXTPower, the group that popularized the Hello Garci protest ringtones in the […]

It’s another honour for me to welcome you to number 33 of the Carnival of The Mobilists. At 33, “L’âge du Christ”, as we say in Belgium, it doesn’t hurt to spend a bit of time on reflexion, so I hope you don’t mind taking the next two paragraphs for this cause.
The thing I like […]

This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is back home at the mother of mobile blogs, MobHappy. Head over to this weeks’ edition of the Carnival Of The Mobilists.
The Carnival Of The Mobilists is kindly sponsored by our friends at Khosla Ventures. This means you can win cash prizes for entering and hosting the Carnival […]

Spain has a great tradition of using the mobile as a viral tool for matters that matter to the people. Spain has one of most interesting case studies on the role of SMS in the Spanish elections of 2004, and there is this very spanish phenomenon of the ‘Macro-Botellóns‘ organized by internet mailings and SMS.
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Nokia takes the lead in bringing podcasts to mobile and I think that’s great news!
I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the Nokia Podcasting Application for S60 at gotomobile.com, now the beta application for the Nokia N91 is available for download here. Thanks for the tip, Steven!

Steven at Nokia informs me that this version […]

This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted at All About Symbian and compiled by Rafe Blandford.
I can hear the drummers starting up and can see the dancers coming round the corner… Break open a beer, enjoy the sunshine and sit back for an hour’s great reading - it’s time for Carnival number 31!
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This morning I received a box from a friend with some new released cd’s of my favourite artists. Pretty old skool this may seem, and it definately is to us people used to watch trends daily surrounded by the latest mobile tech. But this present brought me a particular pleasure I haven’t felt for a […]

One interesting demo I saw at 3GSM I haven’t written on yet, to classify in the category “new mobile business models” are The Klonies, the mobile avatars from Comverse. The Klonies are very cool looking teen-spirited avatars that allow you to create and express yourself. Avatars are very popular online, and I think it’s is […]