Yes, the mobility landscape is picking up…
- Special interests groups are picking up — for example, Mobile Monday is spreading like wildfire, so other mobility related groups
- The mobility related job market is getting better
- More mobility conferences – see The Mobile 2.0 event, and Under the Radar Mobility Conference
- More and better mobility websites, blogs, people, and web presence
- Mobility companies or companies extending to mobile are picking up as well: from Google and Yahoo! to other such as the ones presenting at Under the Radar: 4info, Admob, CascadaMobile, ComVu, Daem Interactive, EQO, Flurry, GreyStripe, Juice Wireless, Loopt, MobiFusion, Mobileplay, Mobo, MotionDSP, Nexage, Ontela, PayWi, Pixpulse, Pixsense, Plusmo, Rocketalk, Renzoo, Sapphire Mobile Systems , ScanR, Sharpcast, TinyPictures, Veeker, Voxlib, Winksite. And many other still in stealth mode…
- The network, handsets, runtimes, mobile Internet and ecosystem, are reaching the level of cooperation, sophistication and functionality that many of us (knew and) have been patiently waiting for (so many years)
- There is even the mobility-specific Internet domain .mobi (that while not needed, is an example of companies that want to monetize the mobile web)
Mobility books I don't think are picking up, but I attribute that to the sea of related information that is available on the web.
The year 2007 is going to be a very good year for mobility!
It is all good…
ceo
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