Carnival of the Mobilists 157

Welcome to the Carnival of the Mobilists 157 touching down here at mjelly.com after last week's Carnival over at Wap Review.  Some great stuff in this week from the mobile 'A' list bloggers, industry thought leaders and people out in the trenches building the next generation of mobile.  It's all here at the Carnival of the Mobilists. 

Post of the week is tough as there are so many good ones ... I'm going to go for Tomi Ahohen's piece on The Nokia Decade because it is so much more than a blog post and really comprehensively covers mobile convergence - it's a bit of writing that you could go back to again and again. 

Whilst you're here please check out our directory of mobile websites and mobile applications - or just continue to the Carnival below:

The Mobile Market

Mobile Guru Tomi Ahohen has submitted a big review of digital convergence and disruption by Nokia over the past ten years, entitled The Nokia Decade. As is typical from Tomi there are loads of facts and stats in there and it is actually far more than a blog post - more of an in-depth essay, but very readable and insightful.  The post actually brings to life a slide that I saw years ago from Nokia showing how phones had already converged with things like watches and alarm clocks and were now moving into new areas like digital cameras.  Five Stars for this piece it's a must read. 

Dean Bubley of Disruptive Analysis, the mobile consultancy, claims that The Mobile Industry is in a State of Denial about the Economy in a really thought-provoking post.  Dean does a great analysis showing that whilst people might not decide to dump their mobile altogether there is going to be a lot of pressure on the mobile industry.  For example, Dean suggest that the mobile network operators are going to be much more focused on reducing costs and consumers are going to be shopping around and more cautious with their mobile spending so things like the smartphone boom might come a bit unstuck.  Killer post. 

Ian Wood from Wireless Foundry looks at the state of the mobile Zeitgeist with a great review of the current status of the market across the entire network value chain from operators to handset and equipment vendors. 

Patrick runs a really interesting blog I've never come across before called SMS is the New Black and has submitted a post seeing if people could live without their mobile for 3 days ... they couldn't ...

Mobile Business Models

Igor Faletski has a great post looking at possible business models for Skyfire the new mobile browser which he describes as "Opera Mini on Steroids".  I was really impressed with this analysis - which is a very crisp look at the options for building revenues to the level that Skyfire's VC investment is going to require that they reach. 

Vision Mobile have a post this week on Network as a Service, a new business model for network operators which asks what are mobile operators are doing with all the intelligence within their network.  They look at the recent trend towards opening up of network intelligence to 3rd parties and what the business model for this looks like.  

The legendary Ajit Jaokar has contributed Unharnessing collective intelligence - A business model for privacy on Mobile devices based on k-anonymity which assesses a possible approach for anonymising user data whilst providing personalized services.  As usual its a really top-quality post from Ajit and well worth a good read over a cup of coffee.

Mobile Advertising and Marketing

Simon Liss of Welovemobile has contributed a think piece around how mobile advertising relates to mobile marketing in the context of banner advertising. He considers why some types of advertising are taking off while others are not, looking at the commercial factors driving the mobile ecosystem. Simon also discusses what needs to change to get non-mobile brands more interested in banner ads and mobile web advertisng in general.  I really enjoyed this post when I first read it - very smart view of the current state of play in the mobile advertising market from someone involved day to day in the industry. 

Jonathan MacDonald brings a piece setting out his view on `The Future of Advertising and Marketing and how mobile fits into all this, as part of the Every Single One of Us initiative which was launched this week. The piece is  hosted on the Agit8 blog, which has just been started up by Alfie Dennon of Moblog and is all about changing the world through technology. 

Mobile Advertising Supremo Andrew Grill of the London Calling Blog offers a video interview where he talks about a range of issues facing mobile advertising today and some potential solutions.  Great to see someone submit multimedia to the Carnival - would be great to see more of this actually. 

MIR Show - jMac takeover - Andrew Grill from Mobile Industry Review on Vimeo.

On a similar theme mjelly's submission for this week is a review of some of the mobile marketing agencies that are popping up as the mobile advertising market grows.  

Mobile Learning, Healthcare and Government

Judy Breck has noticed that Russel Buckley has included mobile learning in his predictions for 2009 post this year and specifically pointed people at Judy's blog if they want to know more about mobile learning.  Judy provides a link to all the relevant mobile learning post on her blog. 

Still on the mobile learning meme Mark from Ubiquitous Thoughts has a very nice summary of a recent report on mobile learning which he links into some of the mobile recent predictions for 2009 that are out there. 

Like Education, Healthcare is a sector where mobile can really make a big difference to people's lives.  The virtuate blog looks at how More Physicians Use Mobile Technology in Clinical Care - great to have Virtuate in the Carnival this week covering a really exciting area of mobile. 

From Education, to Healthcare to Government - Smartmobs Gerrit Visser points to a service called Tweetminster where you can find and follow British Politicians who are on twitter. 



Mobile Internet and Browsing

Dennis from Wap Review has been running a cracking series of posts looking at the features of the mobile web browser Opera Mini and how to get the best out of them.  This week's carnival submission is all about  "Open Mini's Hidden Power User Menu" and it's a must read for any Opera Mini user that wants to get the benefit of Wap Review's expert in-depth knowledge of the application. 

Andrea Trasatti has reviewed his experience with the browser, NetFront, running on an "average" mobile device, the SE V640i.  Very good post pointing out that operators and handset vendors are really shooting themselves in the foot by not installing better native browsers like opera mini.  

James Pearce of Dot Mobi looks at how best to manage switching users between desktop and mobile sites.  This is something so many people get horribly wrong and this is another must read post. 

Mobile Handsets and Platforms

A couple of posts this week looking at the Palm Pre.  Gabor of Mobile Thoughts has blogged his view on the Palm Pre which is a very nice in-depth analysis of some of the issues facing Palm with its new device. 

C. Enrique Ortiz also looks at the Palm Pre taking a critical look at their approach from the point of view of their existing customer base, given the fact that the new device is apparently not backward compatible with existing palm apps.  Some great comments on the post already - read it and join the conversation!

Steve from allaboutiphone looks at what happens when you have downloaded loads of apps from the iphone app store and your iphone is full up of them.  I really love these types of posts on mobile user experience and Steve has really picked up something interesting here - I often see iphone users scrolling across lots of pages of apps in the way he notes and this does seem to be a bit of a usability flaw in the current iphone design. 

Whilst Palm and Apple are the new guys in town, Microsoft has been plugging away at mobile for a while with its Mobile Windows Platform.  Volker Hirsch runs a really good blog on Mobile Entertainment and services and in his post "Win ME: Bigger, Better, Stronger, Less?" provides an analysis of the future strategic direction of Windows Mobile. 

That's all folks!  Next week the Carnival is being hosted by the RadVision blog.  So get your entries in! 

 

Also look out for the announcement of the Mobile Peer Awards finalists later this week.

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