Carnival of the Mobilists 145

Carnival of the Mobilists 145 touching down here at mjelly -  whoop whoop!  Whilst the economy may be in systemic melt-down the world of mobile blogging continues to go from strength to strength - so beat the gloom with this week's round up of the blogosphere's best mobile reportage. 

By happy accident our hosting of the Carnival this week co-incides with the launch of our new directory of mobile 2.0 sites, software and apps - you can check it out at mjelly.com and m.mjelly.com.

Anyway - "UNLEASH THE BLOGS!"

Post of the week is from Carnival Regular Igor Faletski at Mobscure who has some real data from a recent project showing some massive growth in a mobile internet service, and posing the thought that in terms of mobile service delivery, SMS is dying, as a result of the growth of the mobile web.  Always nice to see people sharing data like this so well deserving of the post of the month. 

Next up, Rudy De Waele has posted an agenda for the upcoming Mobile 2.0 conference in San Fransisco.  This is an event that you only hear brilliant things about - the attendee list already looks amazing and Rudy has posted some fantastic looking sessions ranging from mobile advertising to business models to VC investment in mobile.  Rudy says that Mobilists can apply for a free ticket to the event if they contact him via his blog.

Ram Krishnan from the Mobile Broadband Blog looks what might be the first example of a white label mobile broadband product in the Spanish market.  Mobile broadband is really kicking up a storm right now and this looks like it might be the first signs of the market opening up even more so check out the post to stay up to date.

Andrew Grill has some first class reportage from the MMA conference in Budapest summarizing the key points from a session involving the head of mobile for P&G - loads of good insights for anyone interested in mobile marketing and advertising, and particularly in their role in the emerging markets. 

Simon from the mobile marketing agency Welovemobile posted a cheerful outlook in these times of economic doom which suggests that Mobile Marketing can defy the Economic Meltdown.

In a similar vein, Judy Breck, the Carnival Queen has contributed a post suggesting that Mobile is part of a silver lining to the economic mess, at least for education, given that networked forms of learning are so much cheaper to deliver than traditional class-room based teaching.  The post has has received a lot of interest and comments on her blog so go check it out.

Ajit Jaokar brings his super though-provoking, cross-platform, value-chain wide perspectives to the issue of Cloud Computing and the mobile SIM, which is going to be part of a new book of his - "Implementing Mobile Web 2.0".  Check it out at the Open Gardens blog.

Barbara Ballard of Little Springs Design (the author of some great presentations on mobile user experience and development) states that The US is Pulling Ahead in Mobile and puts this down to the convergence of mobile with the big online players who are taking a lot more risks and pushing things forward.

Fresh from running the very successful Social Media Camp, Vero from the Taptu Taptology blog has submitted a great post with some observations on user-experience design in Japan.  Japan has so much to teach us about new technologies and user behaviours, particularly in mobile but the problem is that so few people travel there from the West and there is so little reporting in the English language.  So read the Taptology post to help redress the balance - Design in the Wild - Tokyo's Metro System.

rajagopal sukumar has provided a really original and interesting post looking at what an iwatch (Apple watch form factor mobile computer) might look like.  A really different type of post to the usual ones on the carnival as it actually conceptualises the product - very interesting and highly recommended.

Moving on, Chetan Sharma of Always on Real-Time Access brings news of a new book on Mobile Broadband

Sachendra Yadav has done a nice post looking at the prospects for Nokia's new "comes with music" service highlighting some of the consumer barriers to take-up - a clear and high quality analysis.

Vision Mobile ask the question "Why did Nokia really acquire Symbian"  Research Director Andreas Constantinou digs beyond the surface to analyse why the Symbian deal is about far more than just Ovi and Android.

Smartmobs has expanded its coverage into loads of interesting areas adjacent to mobile and we're including a post from it this week that's a little bit different to provide a bit of a break from mobile-focused stuff - a vlog from the legendary Howard Rheingold on Vernacular Video.

Finally, Debi Jones at mobile jones has some great information about "the Knight News Challenge" an opportunity to gain investment for a mobile service out of $5m round of a $25m five year fund! 

Right - that's it for this week get your submissons in for next week's Carnival which is going to be over at London Calling. 

Comments

[Rudy De Waele]

Great edit, James!

Please correct my name = Rudy De Waele :)

Thanks and keep rockin'!

[james (mjelly)]

Rudy! Corrected - i didn't check it because i was convinced i know how to spell it :-) My apologies.

[rajagopal sukumar]

Thanks a lot James for featuring my post on the iWatch.

[james (mjelly)]

no probs - great post "concept hack" love it!

[Andrew Grill]

James, thanks for featuring my post on Procter & Gamble - a very popular item over the last few days.

I look forward to editing and hosting Carnival 146 at London Calling www.andrewgrill.com/blog next week.

[KnowledgeShift]

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