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Welcome to the Carnival!The Carnival of the Mobilists is about mobility and wireless and the blogosphere. Here you will find and learn from mobility bloggers from all around the world – from personal opinions, to topics on the technology, the landscape, marketing, as well as development. The Carnival is hosted at a different mobility website every week. If you’re a blogger, you might want to enter in the future – or even offer to host it one week. Enjoy this week's Carnival! |
I've the pleasure of hosting this week's Carnival of the Mobilists. Last week we had a wonderful Carnival hosted at Debi's
MobileJones. This week, the tradition continues…
And this week we have blog entries from regular carnival mobility bloggers, as well from new ones. This week:
Simon Judge, Mobile Phone Development, writes his first Carnival entry, where he covers the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices that were published a couple of months ago. Simon explores the practices' two main concepts of “One Web” and “MobileOK” and provides good background, summary and opinion on their significance.
Emily Turretini, textually.org, writes about a new type of text message that self-destructs in 40 seconds. With StealthText you "can rest assured those sensitive messages goes poof – up in smoke". This technology reminds me of startup Dissapearing Inc. (2000) that provided similar self-destruction concepts but applied to emails.
Troy Norcross, consumer preference, explores Carphone Warehouse's new SMS Plan for business users.
Carlo Longino, MobHappy, writes about Another Use For Mobile RSS: Presence, where he continues his thoughts on RSS on mobile phones. Here Carlo reiterates the distinction between RSS the framework or platform and RSS-based applications, and the huge potentials of such applications — I agree with Carlo. In his essay, Carlo's covers the use of RSS for presence, an interesting idea.
Dennis, WapReview, writes a piece titled Webcams and i-Mode. While the title suggest webcams and i-Mode, the essay really provides an excellent coverage of i-Mode in general – background information, the Japanese providers, i-Mode in Japan and outside Japan, and development references — good read.
Rudy De Waele, m-trends.org, writes Google Music all about Mobile!, where he covers Google's Music-specific Search service and the implications on mobile — this announcement “has everything to do with mobile”.
Daniel Taylor, Mobile Enterprise, writes about Seamless roaming would make this the right bundle. In this piece, Daniel explores a new offering by Orange UK, that provides access to 3G, GPRS and Wifi networks for laptops, and simplifies things such as contracts and billing but, even though it has the potential for the killer offering, it lacks what would be the killer offering: seamless roaming between the supported networks 3G, GPRS and Wifi.
Last is my post on
Responsible Location-Based Software Don't Do Evil. A more philosophical essay, here I provide a revised version the Guidelines For LBS Developers I'd originally published a year ago, and that I continue evangelizing. Developers of location-based software, from marketing to development to the customer themselves, all have a moral responsibility to the end-user – I hope these guidelines or similar ones provide a starting point on this important topic.
My favorite post this week is… my post…. kidding, it is Dennis' on i-Mode.
Next week's Carnival, we will have the 2005 end of the year, Christmas Edition at MobHappy.
Happy Holidays…
ceo