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Carnival of the Mobilists #96

7 Comments Published by Rudy De Waele October 24th, 2007 in Carnival Of The Mobilists, mobile 2.0

After a long flight back from iPhoneland, a severe jetlag - I can’t sleep on planes - and catching up with the works, I finally got to edit the 96th Carnival of the Mobilists. Nearly 2 years after my first Carnival of the Mobilists participation, headphones plugged in and a moody playlist on, I’m ready to roll out my 4th CoTM edit of some of the best blog articles on anything mobile of last week (fyi you might also want to read previous edits #33 and #64).

With CTIA IT & Wireless still busy, a week after the Mobile 2.0 Conference and the Symbian Smartphone Show, this is one of the most dense and exciting periods in mobile of the year. I definately would like to add the Web 2.0 Summit to the list - though Daniel Appelquist wasn’t quite happy with the low attention mobile got at the summit, and he has a point here. Maybe invisible at this years’ summit but undoubtly more present than ever in surrounding announcements and events. Convergence (sorry couldn’t find any better word yet) between web and mobile is happening!

With Scobleizer picking up on Mobile (only) Social Software and Martin Varsavsky visiting Steve Jobs… this looks to me as the start of just another exciting period to come…. You ain’t seen nothing yet

In a week where Google Docs Mobile was released, Steve Jobs anounced an iPhone SDK, Facebook to open a developer platform for mobile, Nokia releasing the N810 Internet Tablet, and (again) Google launching free IMAP for Gmail, the web going mobile - or was it the other way around? - is definately looking more interesting and more realistic than ever before… Not to forget the news that Orange will sell the iPhone in France without SIM-Lock (the French consumer rights forces Orange to offer the iPhone also without contract and without SIM-Lock)… You may skip from here if you think all this isn’t exciting

So let’s have a look at the discussions following last week’s Mobile 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Mike Rowehl compiled already a lot of reactions on the event, I added my impressions and more links in my Mobile 2.0 Wrapup, some discussions continue on various channels and threads on Jaiku. BTW: interesting to see a lot of action is shifting from Twitter to Jaiku after the Finnish start-up joined Google.

A real mobilist discovery for me this week was John Puterbaugh’s post on RIA Platforms for Mobile Services. John is the Founder and Chief Strategist of Nellymoser. Read also his thoughts on Mobile 2.0 – when and how. Definately word a read and adds interesting thoughts to many previous discussions on this topic.

Very to the point as well was Kelly Goto’s comment on Russ McGuire’s post on Mobile 2.0: Mobile Internet vs. Mobility:

“(…) Regarding your thoughts on “always on,” “personal information+mass adoption” and “context” are right on. The term “two point oh” has overextended itself and initially was used to say “next generation” of the technology, enhanced by user generated content and awareness (leading to social networks) and the notion of “placelessness” which focuses on the message/communication and the content rather than the device or location. It IS more than the web.(…)”

and C. Enrique Ortiz “No mention of Windows Mobile @ Mobile 2.0 Event” reply on a previous rant from Rob Tiffany. More of these lively discussions and divergent opinions, please!

Read also Rafe Blandford on Motorola 50% stake in UIQ and Carlo Longino’s notes on this event, both reporting from the Symbian’s Smartphone Show in London.

Tarek Abu-Esber looks this week at Mobile Device Technology & The Mobile Web. Mobilist ‘godmother’ Judy Breck reports on Smartmobs how students are “sorting out student mobile rights at school“, an issue that Oliver Starr mentioned also in one of his live blogging posts at Mobile 2.0 on Blognation:

“Seriously, though in all the discussion we’ve had today no one has really emphasized privacy and I think that the total erosion of privacy is perhaps the single most significant change that people will ultimately “feel” as it has massive and lasting repercussions that will reverberate across all cultures, socio-economic groups, and aspects of life.”

Clearly not to be overlooked issues in our maxed out social media world of today.

Read Morten Hjerde’s take on why the iPhone will attack Sony Ericsson but loose out to Nokia in Europe. Another great blog discovery for me, realy great stuff on his blog!

On the Mobile Marketing side Bill Day picks in on a great idea for a personal mobile business card, an earlier post from Russell Beattie. Troy Norcross looks at How to block text message spam and Dennis Bournique has a closer look at the Mobile Metrics Report on AdMob.

That’s it for this week, hope I didn’t left anyone out. Next week, the carnival is hosted by Andreas Constantinou at Vision Mobile.

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Hosting Next Mobilist Carnival #96

0 Comments Published by Rudy De Waele October 20th, 2007 in Carnival Of The Mobilists, mobile 2.0

Dear mobilists,

I’m hosting next Monday’s CotM.
Since I will be travelling from Sunday to Monday, I would appreciate if you could send your entries before Saturday 2pm PST / 11pm CET so I can store them on my laptop and do the editing on the plane.

There’s going to be a lot of entries focused on Mobile 2.0 Conference and Symbian Smartphone Show but I’ll consider any other interesting topic of course.

If you have doubts how to participate, please read the Mobilist FAQ.

Looking forward to your entries!

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