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":"
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. Lets start with John Sun at Mobile Analyst Watch who offers an in depth 5-part comparison of … Continue reading