Carnival of the Mobilists 131

This week's Carnival of the Mobilists touching down here at mjelly after last week's edition over at London Calling.  Lots of interesting stuff this week from posts covering big, structural themes, to detailed analysis of specific issues, to reviews of the latest newsflow.  It's all here in the Carnival of the Mobilists!  My post of the week goes to Wap Review, because I love their posts that go into the real detail of mobile web user experience. 

Carnival Regular and top tier mobile blog Wap Review has a post that really reflects what Wap Review does best - analysis of real world user experience issues on mobile.  This week it's a look at whether it is better to "fit to width" or "zoom" in terms of displaying web pages on mobile phones.  The "Zoom" option is coming to the fore as a result of the release of the iphone, but Wap Review come down in favour of "fit to width" which I have to say I agree with.  The iphone is great but let's not get carried away and change everything to the way Apple do it!

Carnival Co-ordinator and Blog Master General Golden Swamp have provided links to video of a talk on education in mobile.  The talk considers how mobile can open up access to the "cloud" of information and knowledge to billions of people. In a world where it seems that trivial things like ringtones or TV on your mobile get all the attention it is great to see people thinking about how mobile can really lead to real human progress through education and development. 

Last week's host London Calling, the Mobile Advertising blog bigs up the Nokia experience store on Regent Street in London.  I have often walked past this and wondered if it is worth going in and from the sounds of it, it definitely is!  London calling went in to see if the Nokia E71 would support the Good Mobile Messaging service and got some fantastic help from the guys in store.

The mobile opportunity blog has a great post that takes a step back from the newsflow on Symbian and considers Nokia's recent moves in the context of Psion.  (Psion was the much loved early PDA come mobile operating system company from the UK, that arguably never lived up to its potential).  This is a great post which is almost like a Harvard Business School Case study and raises the question - how will Symbian be viewed in the future in terms of its platform play?

The Mobile Thoughts blog also looks at the Symbian newsflow and provides a great summary of some of the best posts on the topic from a range of bloggers.  If you want to get a good view of the topic this is a must read post.

Mobscure has a controversial post saying that Dot Mobi is Dead, based on the recent news that ICANN are going to liberalise top level domains.  Personally, I think dot mobi has been brilliant for the mobile industry because they have pumped money and effort into promoting the idea of the mobile web and have done a lot to help provide resources and info for mobile developers.  Whether the domain is going to become a standard going forward is debateable.  Anyway, click on over to Mobscure to make up your own mind.

Wireless Foundary are good mobile citizens and recently sponsored a cracking Mobile Monday London.  Their post this week looks at the mobile ecosystem in the light of the succession of Viterio Colao to Vodafone CEO.  Again, this is a really analytical and strategic thought-piece that considers the key macro trends across the mobile value chain, from handset manufacturers, to operators to network vendors.

We move from macro to very micro with a post from Foxtrax looking at the release of the XPS 2.0 positioning hardware that is built into the iphone.  If you are involved in the nitty gritty of location based services then this is the post for you! 

Vision Mobile Research Director Andreas Constantinou analyses the recent acquisition of Openwave’s client business by Purple Labs and how a relatively unknown French software vendor is becoming a key player in the new world of open source software  for mobile phones.  Again, this is a great post that really digs into the detail of mobile phone software platforms.

Open Gardens is a blog that always has something new and interesting to say and a unique take on mobile market trends.  This week, they've taken a look at the concept of "Personal CPM" and how this could link with the profile data in IMS elements of the mobile network to enhance mobile advertising. 

Mopocket is asking for input into a survey on mobile social networking The survey is part of a study aimed at assessing the viability of social networks as they relate to the segment of consumers in the market place who seek simplicity above all in their devices.  If you are bored of twittering and friendfeeding or scanning bloglines then please go over and take the survey.   

Last but not least,  Alfie D from the Moblog crew draws our attention to a moblog for Greenpeace, Wateraid and Oxfam for the Glastonbury Leave No Trace campaign. The moblog is a web and mobile version at:
http://leavenotrace.org.uk and http://m.leavenotrace.org.uk.  Obviously, Glastonbury is now over but you can go and check out the moblog.  The moblog was open to anyone at Glastonbury, asking them to 'leave no trace' other than their texts, videos and pictures with additional geo-tagging features and other goodness. Moblog.co.uk is due to relaunch soon with a new version and this is a taster of what to expect.

Right that's it!  Big up all the contributors and all the mobile blogging crew worldwide!    

Next week's Carnival is hosted by the one and only Mippin blog from the top London mobile 2.0 startup of the same name.  Get your submissions in now!

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[Ajit Jaokar]

blogged .. sory for delay .. rgds Ajit

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