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This weeks Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by David Beers at Software Everywhere. Original take from David and congrats to Michael Mace from Mobile Opportunity for his Post of the Week, called European vs. American mobile phone use in which he looks at some elementary differences between European vs American cell mobile phone culture.

Read edition #44 here. Note for David: I was just being enthusiastic

While I was away, the following Carnivals have been published:

Carnival of the Mobilists 43 at 3-Lib
Carnival 42 at MobileActive
Carnival 41 at MOpocket

Judy Breck did a wonderful job hosting this weeks’ edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists at Smart Mobs.

It’s great to see the Carnival of the Mobilists 38 at the weblog mother of mobile communication, pervasive computing, wireless networks and collective action.

I am pleased to receive the very first $500 “Host of the Month” award, sponsored by Khosla Ventures for my hosting of the Carnival of the Mobilist 33 here at m-trends.org in June. I am also pleased to see that the $250 “Post of the Month” award went to Stephanie Rieger with her post on “Casual mobile snacks for everyone”, my selected post of the week from the same nr. 33 edition.

If you would like to participate with a post or as a host to the Carnival, read the instructions here at the mobili.st website. I would like to thank Khosla Ventures for believing in the value of this network, especially Russell and Carlo at Mobhappy for making this all happen, and all the mobilists for their continuous support, belief and enthusiasm towards this project, a proof that collaborative writing projects work!

This weeks’ Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Xen Mendelsohn at the Xelullar Identity, a special edition of the best writings in mobile of last week. Looks like she has seen too much football this month so she makes a most original comparison to the World Cup final of this Sunday, so head over and check out number 35 of the Carnival of the Mobilists.

As part of its sponsorship of the Carnival of the Mobilists, Khosla Ventures is awarding $250 to the author of the best post each month and the best Carnival Host will win $500.hey’ll go up for public vote.

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

Also don’t forget to put your vote for the Best Post For June at the mobili.st website.

As part of its sponsorship of the Carnival of the Mobilists, Khosla Ventures is awarding $250 to the author of the best post each month. Every week, the host picks their favorite submission, and at the end of the month, they’ll go up for public vote.

My post of the week in last weeks’ Carnival went to Stephanie Rieger’s post on “Casual mobile snacks for everyone”.

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 about the Carnival when looking back at the previous issues is the learning curve we all seem to go through with our personal opinion on mobile related stuff but more important is that thanks to this open-source community and collaborative writing, we all learn from each other from wherever we are and in whatever mobile connected environment we might be, since technology and the networks don’t evolve at the same speed in different places.

Different business models are applied in different countries but whether we communicate over voice, by sms, mms, moblog our camera pictures, read our feeds on the mobile, or listen to podcasts on our cell, it’s all about communication and at the Carnival of the Mobilists we find all sorts of people writing their thoughts, experiences and ideas on mobile and wireless: techies, designers, developers, philosophers, journalists, marketers, there’s always something interesting to read (or now also to listen to), that’s the great thing about the Carnival of the Mobilists: it’s all about collective and intuitive intelligence, experiences, sharing ideas, discussion, the joy of writing and reading, the passion for anything mobile and last but not least the fun to enjoy it when bringing all this elements together.

This weeks’ Carnival of the Mobilists has all of this again with a solid dose of quality! Thanks to our sponsor Khosla Ventures for supporting us. And now enough reflexion, let’s get back to action!

This week there’s more then just tech and testosterone, we have no less then 5 female contributions - regulars Darla, Emily, Keren, Judy and Xen were not even in this week - a missed opportunity to take over, girls but I’m really happy to see that this group seems to be setting the tone for more balance of the sexes in our sector. Bringing in more female experience, intuition, diversity and fun can never harm, so ‘noblesse oblige’ for a gentlemen like me, let’s start with the women

Newcomer and psychologist Dr. Deborah Serani has an entry on Ringxiety: The Next New Disorder. “Do you have the sensation that your cell phone is ringing or vibrating when it’s not?” Check out yourself I would say…

Kelly Goto writes about the introduction of LBS into personal and family life and put some interesting thoughts forward whether this is an interesting move forward: “… are families ready for the shift? Is this considered a luxury to be able to track, or is it an invasion of privacy? Is the tracking accurate enough in urban areas and are their kids going to be OK with the lack of privacy in return for the liberty of having a mobile device of their own?” Kelly talked to actual parents and reveals some interesting insights in this post.

Other newcomer BiBi Cambridge comes in with a surprising sociological input on how the London’s’ underground gay scene is using Bluetooth to get together: “Yes, these days if you make sure you’re on the last carriage of any tube train in London and you whack on your Bluetooth (it works underground you see) you may be surprised to find that the paired devices to be found all around you have names like …” I won’t tell you where she got off the next stop but it’s definitely not a usual spot here at the CotM. Satisfaction guaranteed?

Stefanie Rieger gives us her insights on mobile games in Casual Mobile Snacks For Everyone: “Do current mobile games allow for quiet time, playful time, competitive time, learning time, contemplative time, silly time? We have a unique opportunity with mobile devices in that they can be insanely personal and private while being incredibly social and contextual (presence, location etc.) They can offer small moments of quiet play or learning—no peers, no pressure—or small moments of highly networked interaction and competition. Not to mention hybrids of the two.” Refreshing blog, and my favourite post of this week! Do check also her selection of June’s Best Industry Podcasts. Excellent choice if you ask me.

Which brings me to another podcast this week: Debi Jones did a really interesting interview with other mobilist Martin Sauter available as podcast on Media Slaves. They discuss mobile network capacity as it relates to mobile social media. Must hear!

Back to the boys brings us as usual some very excellent tech related reflexion from regulars such as Daniel Taylor on “Multiple Architectures for Mobility“, Tom Soft on “Another Flash from J2ME Developer Perspective“, Anders Borg on “Java ME, still not Write One, Run Anywhere“, Tam Hanna on “Investition security in the 3G content business“, David Beers on “How wireless becomes free“. Dennis Bournique - finally got his family name, from Wap Review does a review of the mobile edition of Yes.com, a site that tells you what song’s playing on the radio. Hello?

Jim Downing over at Smart Mobs reports on the mobile Linux-based platform independent foundation of some big mobile handset manufacturers (Motorola, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Samsung Electronics), along with mobile operators NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone.

Justin Oberman at MOpocket stumbled upon - not the web 2.0 social bookmarks site - a giant interactive digital billboard on the corner of 50th and Broadway. Kind of a surprise for a New Yorker it seems, especially when the campaign is to celebrate BBC World’s entry to the USA.

Italian newcomer Fabrizio Errante asks “What do we do with our old phones?” and urges organizations to start thinking about the number of soaring devices, month by month.

C. Enrique Ortiz gives his opinions and analysis on the Future of Messaging: “The next level of messaging is about enhanced messaging that is always on, messaging that can be active or passive based on user preferences, messaging that leverages many media channels, where presence, personal data, and social aspects are all integrated. The next level of messaging is about understanding and maximizing the mobile context and thus the messaging experience.” How about that?

And last but not least I recommend you read the latest ponderings of Scott Shaffer on the relation between mobile search and the physical hyper linking of things: “There will come a point when there is more Internet traffic from mobile devices than PCs. What happens to search engines then?” And “What happens when every can of Coke can be hyper-linked to the net? Or every Elton John CD, or every menu, concert ticket, street sign, business card, bag of Pringles.” This is definitely one of THE hot topics for the coming months. Be sure you’re going to read about it somewhere at the Carnival of the Mobilists!

So, that’s it for this week! Thanks for reading, if you got until here, and thanks to all the participants this week for their great contributions. Again, another goldmine of valuable information on anything mobile; please head over and read their posts!

Next week the Carnival is hosted by the Wireless World Forum. If you’re not a member yet, why not become a Carnival of the Mobilists host and get your free subscription (worth GBP 200 to join). For details check the mobili.st website.

* image by Andrew Berglund

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 every month.

The Carnival is growing week by week and invites new writers about mobile as well as old friends to participate - you don’t need a special invite. Send your entry for next week no later than next Wednesday, 9PM PST to: mobilists@gmail.com.

BTW: next week I’m hosting again here at m-trends.org

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!

Head over to another wonderful 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 every month.

The Carnival is growing week by week and invites new writers about mobile as well as old friends to participate - you don’t need a special invite. Send your entry for next week no later than next Wednesday, 9PM PST to: mobilists@gmail.com.

This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is pink and is hosted by the amazing Darla Mack.

If you don’t know Darla by now, she’s one of the most productive bloggers writing on a daily basis different articles on everything mobile with a female touch. Darla took also the lead in the Women In Mobile series.

No need to repeat the Carnival is some of the best weekly writing about mobile from around the web. So head over to Darla’s Carnival

The Carnival is growing week by week and invites new writers about mobile as well as old friends to participate - you don’t need a special invite. Send your entry for next week no later than next Wednesday, 9PM PST to: mobilists@gmail.com.

This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Ajit Jaokar at Open Gardens. Lot’s of great posts this week and some special anouncements. Head over for some of the best writing about mobile from around the web in this weeks’ edition.

The Carnival is growing week by week and invites new writers about mobile as well as old friends to participate - you don’t need a special invite. Send your entry for next week no later than next Wednesday, 9PM PST to: mobilists@gmail.com.

Mobhappy infatiguable duo Carlo and Russell anounced some nice goodies recently related to the Carnival of the Mobilists. Carlo anounced last week the birth of the mobili.st website, designed by Gotomedia, and Russell anounced yesterday, the CotM will be sponsored by Khosla Ventures from June untill the rest of the year.

“The sponsorship will take the form of cash prizes every month, as well as the Best of the Year Carnival prize which we run in December. Every month, the best Carnival Host will win $500 and the best Post will win $250. Of course, if you host and post, you could win the lot!

In December, we’ll be running the Best Post of the Year again, hosted at MobHappy, where we’ll be awarding two cash prizes before the holidays, of $1,000 and $500.”

This is really great news for this great initiative I have seen growing from the beginning… In only a couple of months this collaborative writing experiment became a well-respected source for people in the mobile industry.

If this is the first time you hear about the CotM, you can check all the previous issues here. Participating is easy, send your entry to: mobilists AT gmail DOT com before 9.00pm PST on Wednesdays. All participants writing about mobile are welcome - you don’t need a special invitation. In order to be considered to be a host, you must have already successfully contributed to the Carnival as a writer 3 times or more. All details and future schedule at the new mobili.st website!

I’m sure this sponsorhip is going to stimulate the participants to do even better writing on mobile. Congratulations and thanks to Russell and Carlo and all the people who have helped growing the Carnival of the Mobilists!

Oh and… I just realised I have choosen a really tough month as a host in June