{"id":101,"date":"2006-05-04T20:08:03","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T04:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=101"},"modified":"2020-12-12T09:37:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T17:37:59","slug":"carnival-of-the-mobilists-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/101\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnival of the Mobilists 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n $\"$ <\/a> Welcome to the 26th edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists. The Carnival is a traveling showcase of some of the best recent writing on mobile topics. Each week the Carnival midway appears at a different mobilist’s blog. I’m pleased to be this week’s host and can tell you that we have a truly great collection of posts for your enjoyment and edification.<\/p>\n

Lets start with John Sun at Mobile Analyst Watch<\/a> who offers an in depth 5-part comparison<\/a> of two products for runners, cyclists and hikers. The series pits Bones in Motion’s BiM Active<\/em> handset based location aware application against a dedicated device, the Garmin Forerunner 205<\/em> GPS personal training watch. As both a serious runner and a knowledgeable mobilist John delivers a great review.<\/p>\n

At Mopocket<\/a> Justin Oberman analyzes a flawed SMS marketing scheme<\/a>, explaining where it went wrong and how with a better understanding of mobile and a little follow-through it could have been a great campaign. Read Justin’s piece to learn how to make your mobile marketing effective.<\/p>\n

From Paris, Stuart Mudie in Blethers.com<\/a> writes about how Nokia is using blogging<\/a> and bloggers to promote it’s products – the latest iteration being two French blogs dedicated to the N91 and 3250.<\/p>\n

This week’s MobHappy<\/a> entry is by Carlo Longino who takes a critical look at Skype’s new WiFi phone<\/a>. Carlo compares the new device with cellular and reaches what some may find a surprising conclusion.<\/p>\n

At the Mobile Enterprise Weblog<\/a>, Daniel Taylor discusses some of the challenges<\/a> facing SalesForce.com or anyone else seeking to develop and market enterprise level mobile applications.<\/p>\n

C. Enrique Ortiz’ at Mobility W e b l o g<\/a> wonders if screen scraping mashups are trampling on the rights of authors <\/a> and other content providers – very relevant to the recent debate about mobile transcoding.<\/p>\n

The Pondering Primate<\/a> explains how he sees the potential for a mighty marketing engine<\/a> in a recent Yahoo\/Nokia alliance.<\/p>\n

Ajit Jaokar at Open Gardens<\/a> has a thought provoking post on the many meanings of digital convergence<\/a> and how they relate to Web 2.0.<\/p>\n

Tomi Ahonen on his Communities Dominate Brands<\/a> blog analyzes the seductive appeal and enormous revenue generation of text messaging and offers a prediction that eventually texting will be more popular than voice calls – even in backwaters like the US. Read Tomi’s piece here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Avner Ronen writing on Xellular Identity<\/a> with an item<\/a> about the two biggest US carrier’s new content restrictions. Avner does a great job of skewering these bureaucratic attempts at defining forbidden words and images.<\/p>\n

My pick for Post of the Week<\/em> goes to Michael Mace writing at Mobile Opportunity<\/a>. Michael’s post is a wide ranging examination of the past, present and future of the e-book business. Michael’s a skilled writer and he certainly maintained my interest in what I initially though would be a dull topic. Michael weaves in fascinating asides as he traces the intricacies of both print and electronic publishing from author through publisher to reader. Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Howard Rheingold at Smartmobs<\/a> points to Mozes<\/a>, an inovative short code service that returns a variety of information when sent a “Mozes code”.<\/p>\n

How about a mobilst podcast? This week the Mobile Media Show<\/a> podcast features mobilist Rudy De Waele<\/a>, who talks about his Women in Mobile series, the Carnival of Mobilists, ForumOxford and his future predictions of mobile phone use.<\/p>\n

Finally, my own contribution to the Carnival is this recent review<\/a> of Wampad.com<\/em>, an interesting new mobile portal that is based around search.<\/p>\n

That’s all for this week’s Carnival. Next Friday you will find a brand new carnival at The 3G Portal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Carnival welcomes new contributors. If you’d like to participate, visit this MobHappy post<\/a> for full particulars on the why and how of becoming a Carnival Mobilist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"