{"id":242,"date":"2007-01-07T14:14:59","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T22:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2020-12-11T09:34:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T17:34:31","slug":"carnival-time-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/242\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnival Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\" Flying Thingy - Photo by Rick Tagai \" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/flyingThingy.jpg\" alt=\" Flying Thingy - Photo by Rick Tagai \" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span>Photo by <a title=\"Link to Rick Takagi's photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rt425\/\">Rick Takagi<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Attribution\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/images\/cc_icon_attribution_small.gif\" alt=\"Attribution\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" align=\"middle\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Noncommercial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/images\/cc_icon_noncomm_small.gif\" alt=\"Noncommercial\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" align=\"middle\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Share Alike\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/images\/cc_icon_sharealike_small.gif\" alt=\"Share Alike\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" align=\"middle\"\/> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/2.0\/\">Some rights reserved.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After a long holiday break, the <em>Carnival of the Mobilists<\/em> is back. I&#8217;m honored to host it here at <em>Wap Review<\/em> with a great selection of posts from all areas of the mobile scene.<\/p>\n<p><strong>History and Prognostication: <\/strong>It&#8217;s the time of the year to review where we&#8217;ve been and what&#8217;s ahead.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mad4mobilephones.com\/news.php3\">Mad4mobilePhones<\/a>&#8216; Patrick Altoft highlights a prediction by researcher Dr Martin Illsley that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mad4mobilephones.com\/news\/289\/\">2007 will be the year for complaining by picture message<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>C. Enrique Ortiz at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cenriqueortiz.com\/weblog\/\">Mobility Weblog<\/a> offers his analysis of mobility&#8217;s current state as well as predictions for this new year in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cenriqueortiz.com\/weblog\/Mobility\/2006\/12\/31\/Thoughts-on-Mobility-2007.html\">Thoughts on Mobility 2007<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m happy to say that Greg Clayman, &#8220;mtv networks&#8217; wireless media guy&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/twofones.typepad.com\/twofones\/\">twofones<\/a> shares my enthusiasm mobile Gmail and Reader. Greg has an idea what Google&#8217;s next mobile move might be in <a href=\"http:\/\/twofones.typepad.com\/twofones\/2006\/12\/google_mobile.html\">Google Mobile.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abiro.com\/news\/\">Abiro &#8211; Mobile News<\/a> Anders Borg looks not one, but 15 years into the future and speculates that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abiro.com\/news\/2006\/12\/future-mobile-phone-is-most-likely-not.html\">The future mobile phone is most likely not a phone<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190316010940\/http:\/\/mobhappy.com:80\/blog1\/\">MobHappy<\/a>&#8216;s Carlo Longino spotlights the mobile highs and lows of the past year in <a href=\"http:\/\/mobhappy.com\/blog1\/2007\/01\/07\/that-was-the-year-that-was\/\">That Was The Year That Was<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reviews:<\/strong> Looking at new mobile hardware and software<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rudy De Waele at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-trends.org\/\">m-trends.org<\/a> reviews four new S60 handsets in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-trends.org\/2007\/01\/nokia-nseries-leaps-ahead.html\"> Nokia Nseries: Leaps Ahead!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartmobs.com\/\">Smart Mobs<\/a>, Gerrit Visser looks at a new SMS based local mobile community built on sharing events and bands in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartmobs.com\/archive\/2007\/01\/03\/a_myspace_for_t....html\">A MySpace for the mobile generation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>My own contribution is a look a promising but as yet incomplete LoSoSo (Local Social Software) app, <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/237\">Socialight &#8211; Geocoded Stickynotes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Troy Norcross at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumer-preference.com\/\">Mobile Marketing &amp; SPAM<\/a> explains why mobile search isn&#8217;t working in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumer-preference.com\/2007\/01\/yellcom-lost-in-mobile-search.html\">Yell.com lost in mobile search<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Technology:<\/strong> How stuff works and how to make it better.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ajit Jaokar at <a href=\"http:\/\/opengardensblog.futuretext.com\/\">Open Gardens<\/a> weighs the merits of two competing technologies for enabling dynamic rich mobile content &#8211; one proprietary, the other open &#8211; in <a href=\"http:\/\/opengardensblog.futuretext.com\/archives\/2006\/12\/flash_lite_is_n_1.html\">Flash Lite is not WICD &#8211; But it should be!<\/a> which is my pick for the <strong>Post of the Week.<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/opengardensblog.futuretext.com\/archives\/2006\/12\/flash_lite_is_n_1.html\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Mihai Preda at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.javia.org\/\">The anatomy of a project<\/a> offers a likely to be controversial proposal for the Java ME development community in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.javia.org\/?p=33\">JAD is BAD<\/a>. In the process, Mihai does a good job of explaining the Java app installation process in layman&#8217;s terms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.treotoday.net\/\">Treo Today<\/a>&#8216;s Azizi Jennis goes off on one of my pet peeves, proprietary mobile cable connectors in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treotoday.net\/2006\/12\/07\/its-time-for-a-mobile-device-connector-standard\/\">It\u2019s time for a mobile device connector standard<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Phil at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonsidermobile.com\/\">Moonsider Mobile<\/a> provides some advice for users about mobile&#8217;s biggest religious war in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonsidermobile.com\/gsm-vs-cdma-which-one-is-the-best-for-you\/\">CDMA vs. GSM, which one is the best for you?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bellubbi.com\/wordpress\/\">SmallDoses<\/a>, Kiran Bellubbi presents his theory on why SMS is so successful and what that means for mobile application designers in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bellubbi.com\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/11\/designing-better-mobile-apps-learning-from-smss-stickiness\/\">Designing better mobile apps &#8211; learning from SMS\u2019s stickiness<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>David Beers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pikesoft.com\/blog\/\">Software Everywhere<\/a> takes a look at the mobile Linux code that Access has Open Sourced in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pikesoft.com\/blog\/index.php?itemid=136\">ACCESS opens source to Linux application framework<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Business Plans: <\/strong>Winners and Losers and how to be the former:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sagar Satapathy discusses Yahoo&#8217;s Voice over IM entry and it&#8217;s implications for Google and VOIP providers like Vontage in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voiplowdown.com\/2006\/11\/voip_voim_phone.html\">VoIP + VoIM Phone War Heats Up<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voiplowdown.com\/\">VoIP Lowdown<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Carnival newcomer Nick Wright at <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmarketingandmedia.blogspot.com\/index.html\">Vir(tu)al Marketing and Media<\/a> has a great analysis of where user generated video content on mobile is (and isn&#8217;t) going in <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmarketingandmedia.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/mobile-video-turns-to-self-defeating.html\">Media Mobile video turns to self-defeating broadcast model<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In <a href=\"http:\/\/xendolev.typepad.com\/xellular\/2006\/12\/ringback_tone_m_1.html\">Ringback Tone Market Challenges (Part II)<\/a> Xen Mendelsohn at <a href=\"http:\/\/xendolev.typepad.com\/xellular\/\">Xellular Identity<\/a> proposes a new off portal business model for ringback tones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Andreas Constantinou proposes a new model for selling handsets, a modular approach where extra cost features like an FM Radio, Bluetooth, HSDPA or enhanced security are added at point of sale in <a href=\"http:\/\/visionmobile.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/retail-idea-3-selling-hardware-features\">Retail idea #3: Selling hardware features<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visionmobile.com\/home.php\">VisionMobile Forum<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Mobile Opportunity&#8217;s Michael Mace in <a href=\"http:\/\/mobileopportunity.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/sprint-and-wimax-are-these-guys-serious.html\">Sprint and WiMax: Are these guys serious?<\/a> is bullish on the US carrier&#8217;s WiMax plan &#8211; if they actually pull it off.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That wraps up the 58th edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists. Next week&#8217;s host is Thomas Landspurg at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.landspurg.net\/\">TomSoft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have something to say about mobile, consider contributing your blog post to the Carnival. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/mobili.st\/\">mobili.st<\/a> to learn how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Rick Takagi Some rights reserved. After a long holiday break, the Carnival of the Mobilists is back. I&#8217;m honored to host it here at Wap Review with a great selection of posts from all areas of the mobile scene. History and Prognostication: It&#8217;s the time of the year to review where we&#8217;ve been and what&#8217;s ahead. 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