
I haven’t submitted to the Carnival in a long time… will get to that hopefully soon. But this week’s Carnival of the Mobilist is at the WAP Review. Check it out.
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I haven’t submitted to the Carnival in a long time… will get to that hopefully soon. But this week’s Carnival of the Mobilist is at the WAP Review. Check it out.
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If you haven’t yet, go check out the latest Carnival of the Mobilists at Debi Jones (MobileJones) blog, a great edition that summarizes 15+ top blog entries from mobility bloggers from around the world…
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The first Carnival of the Mobilists of 2008 has been published at Paul Ruppert’s Mobile Point View blog. A great edition it is with lots of great of entries from mobility bloggers from around the world… Check it out!
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The above photo is of the ferris wheel in Helsinki, source: ashlyfanderson
Welcome to the Carnival of the Mobilists #104!
It is great to be back hosting the Carnival…
This week’s Carnival is dedicated to the land of the Finns, where I spent the whole last week.

Some facts about Finland. According to the CIA World Factbook, Finland’s key economic sector is manufacturing – wood, metals, engineering, and electronics industries. And of course mobile handsets, and Vodka and Saunas. For the latter, you have to be there to know what I mean
. With a population of 5,238,460 (July 2007), it has 1.92 million (2006) telephones lines in use, and 5.67 million (2006) mobile cellular phones in use (now, that is penetration). Other facts include 2.323 million (2007) Internet hosts, and 2.925 million (2006) Internet users.
The Carnival of the Mobilists #104
This week we have entries from Martin Sauter, Dennis, Jim Hughes, Tarek Abu-Esber, Ajit Jaokar, Dan Lewis, Steve Litchfield, Jaclyn Epstein, Keving Flemming, Howard Rheingold, and truly yours, me.
Let’s begin… My friend Martin Sauter of WirelessMoves writes a very interesting piece titled Bit Pipe or Profiting from the Long Tail? where he covers the long-time mobile operators dilemma of being a bit pipe or more, specifically service providers, and its relationship to the Long Tail. He writes “So now look at mobile operators: Selling bandwidth is nothing but making money with the Long Tail of the web. Sounds a lot better than ‘bitpipe’, no?”
Dennis of the WAP Review writes about mPoria – Mobile Mall, where he covers mPoria, where “real merchandise can be purchased using your phone and delivered by UPS or FedEx to your home or office”. As usual, Dennis writes a very good product review.

The above photo is of Helsinki and its Cathedral, source: http://blog.arendsen.net
Jim Hughes at Feet up! writes Google Maps, give us the data! where he covers his experiences running Google Maps for Mobile on the E61, but most importantly Jim points out that Google is building a huge database of mast locations with everyone’s help, and that such data should be made accessible to others.
Tarek Abu-Esber writes Mobile Device Testing Products And Services, where he covers new services for developers for testing their mobile applications. Tarek covers Device Anywhere, PACA Mobile Center, Nokia Services, and other; a good resource for developers.
Ajit Jaokar of the Open Gardens blog writes Mobile browser plug-ins: The browser as a platform la Facebook platforms, where he covers the idea of mobile browser plug-ins. Ajit writes “If browser plug-ins take off, then the browser becomes a platform much like the Facebook platform.”
Dan Lewis of Skydeck writes Is one cell phone enough?, an interesting piece that covers stats on why people carry multiple handsets, and very importantly, the implications for estimates of cell phone penetration. A good read.
Steve Litchfield of All About Symbian writes Taking storage for granted and ‘The Importance Of Backups’ part 362, where he writes about backups… You have been warned; when was the last time that you backed up your data?
John Puterbaugh of Nellymoser writes 2008 Predictions, his expectations for 2008.
C. Enrique Ortiz, of the About Mobility weblog writes The killer Mobile-Desktop combination, where I cover the use-case of leveraging the desktop to enhance the mobile experience.
Our last entry by Howard Rheingold of SmartMobs is Tim O’Reilly on open mobile where Howard covers some interesting remarks by Tim O’Reilly on his letter to the New Your Times. Check it out.
My favorite piece for this week is Martin’s Bit Pipe or Profiting from the Long Tail?
Thanks for reading the Carnival this week. Note that this week’s edition is the last for 2007, and that first CoM of ’08 will be at Paul R. Ruppert’s Mobile Point View blog.
The Carnival of the Mobilists founders, organizers, hosts, bloggers and all participants wishes you a happy and save Holidays and a great New Years!

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Wow, the Carnival of the Mobilists is 100 editions old! From the original concept by the MobHappy guys Carlo and Russell, to this week’s latest edition, it is wonderful to see the Carnival continue to make an impact on Mobility with its regular and new contributors from around the world. I wasn’t able to submit anything to the 100th edition as I was out of town, but if you haven’t yet, see this week’s edition at Abhishek Tiwari’s weblog.
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This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is at Ubiquitous Thoughts blog. Topics include Google’s Open Handset Alliance and Android, marketing, product reviews, and education. Good read.
Previous/recent carnivals that I meant to mention in my blog and all are must reads:
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If you haven’t yet, go check out this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists at taptology. This week’s topics include Web 3.0, free speech, mobiles in civil society, U.S. carriers, the “Phonetop”, the Mobile 2.0 Conference, and other.
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Another great edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists, this week at the Communities Dominate Brands blog.
Thanks to Tomi for picking up my blog entry On iterations, mobile, texting, web, and local applications.
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This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is at Abhishek Tiwari’s weblog, who is hosting the Carnival for the first time, and who has done a great job with it.
A great set of entries this week from the blogosphere, including Rudy of M-Trends, Xen from Xellular Identity, Paul from Mobile Point, Tomi and Alan of the Communities Dominate blog, and many others, including truly yours, me!
It has been a while since the last time that I submitted an entry to the Carnival of the Mobilists, and it is good to be back.
Thanks to Abhishek for including my entry on the topic of Mobile Context, which is a topic that I am spending quite a bit of time working on lately.
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The Carnival of the Mobilists #88 is at Xen’s Xellular Identity weblog, with 13 must read entries on mobility. Go check it out…
Thanks to Xen for picking up my entries on digital divide and mobility.
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This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is at Paul Ruppert’s Mobile Point View blog.
This thing keeps getting better and better, go check it out. Thanks to Paul for picking up my piece, and choosing it as this week’s Utopic Post! Awesome!
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This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists #84 is at Mobile Messaging 2.0, and written by Debi Jones (of MobileJones.com) …
Topics this week include SMS, MoSoSo, the iPhone, Mobile Web, Nokia handsets, Carriers/Operators, Mobile Industry, and International Travel; a great read.
Thanks to Debi for including my piece The Elements of the Mobile Context, which is a topic that I will continue to expand over time…
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This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists (#83) is at Golden Swamp – great submissions from the blogosphere. Check it out! Thanks to Judy for including my entry The next big thing is Touch.
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Now that I am (almost) done with my move to WordPress, I’m ready to host the Carnival of the Mobilists #82… Woohoo! My apologies for the delay (and for not including an entry this week)…
It has been a while since the last time that I hosted a Carnival of the Mobilists, and it is my pleasure to host again… This week we have 12 submissions from Mobilists from around the world, covering topics that include the iPhone, Mobile Web, a wiki for 3G travelers, mobile security, enriched ringback tones, and tips. So let’s get started:
A good set of entries… And my favorite entry for this week is Jason Devitt’s Congressional Hearing on Wireless Innovation and Consumer Protection, as it covers a very important topic, one for which creating awareness is important. My second choice is Masabi’s article on the Problems with Mobile Security #1.
So I hope that you have enjoyed this week’s Carnival; see you next week at GoldenSwamp!
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This week's Carnival of the Mobilists #80 is at MobileJones… topics include mobile applications, the iPhone, mobile ddversiting, and the mobile industry.
Welcome back Debie! It is great to see you back; we missed ya' Thanks for including my entry…
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