It’s my pleasure to bring you the 32nd installment of the Carnival of Mobilists, returning like a prodigal son with this week’s best writing about mobile technology. It brings Russell and I great joy to see the Carnival thriving, and that’s down to the support of the community, so pat yourself on the back. Thanks also to Khosla Ventures, kind sponsors of the Carnival of the Mobilists. Enough of the plaudits, though, and on with the Carnival.

There were several first-time entrants in the Carnival this week, which was great to see. Tarek Abu-Esber wants to know where all the Flash Lite demo apps are, pointing out that handset vendors are missing an opportunity to promote the potentially powerful technology.

Stephanie Rieger also writes about Flash Lite, highlighting several potential applications for it, beyond mobile marketing apps.

Shawn at Thought Pattern, who makes the case for providing different levels of user location information for mobile web sites and applications.

Frequent contributor Martin Sauter is also talking about geolocation this week, and gets my vote for Best Post with his ideas about how to incorporate geotaggings into mobile applications. As Martin points out, the technology is there, it’s high time for some cool applications that make use of location info (and by cool, I mean something more than telling me where the nearest ATM machine is).

Location technologies and services was a popular topic this week, with Daniel Taylor at the Mobile Enterprise Weblog looking into the conflicts that can emerge when location-based services are introduced to the enterprise.

Rafe at All About Symbian (last week’s able host) has reviewed Juvino, an application that promises to cut users’ mobile bills by routing its calls and texts through its own gateway. Rafe says it offers some benefits, but isn’t without some big drawbacks, too.

Michael Mace at Mobile Opportunity says he’s found from several sources that mobile application sales are stagnating, and offers some solid insight and analysis into why.

Anders Borg at Abiro has waded into the mobile etiquette debate, offering users and manufacturers some advice on how best to use ringtones. It’s common sense advice, but some that all too often gets ignored.

At Xen Mendolsohn’s Xellular Identity, she has a guest entry by Nissim Bar-Siman-Tov asking an important question for operators as they rush into video services — why would mobile users pay for content they already own at home?

MobileActive this week takes a look at The Grameen Phone project in Bangladesh, which uses microloans to finance “phone ladies” in rural villages, using telecommunications for economic empowerment.

Scott Shafer at The Pondering Primate says that there’s a big opportunity for MySpace to move 2D barcodes for mobiles forward in the US.

Following the barcode meme, over at Smart Mobs, Mike Love posts about Codecheck, a project “to create an informed “community” of consumers who are able to critically assess products prior to reaching their purchasing decisions” by snapping a picture of a product’s barcode and sending it in to the system on their mobile.

Wap Review this week takes a look at some mobile versions of YubNub, finding them pretty useful front ends to the command-line service for mobile users.

Finally, for our contribution this week is Russell’s post on the disparity between popular sites on the mobile web and on the fixed web.

A couple more new entrants to point to: Life of a Software Program Manager with a review of the Dopod S300/Qtek 8500, and TamsPalm taking a look at Palm Desktop in Windows Vista.

Other entries this week came from Steve Litchfield, MOpocket, and The Mobile Media Show podcast, as well as another audio entry from Media Slaves m-trends.org, Darla Mack and Troy Norcross.

That’s it for this week, thanks again to all the contributors. See you next week at Rudy de Waele’s m-trends.org!

[tags]carnival of the mobilists, mobilists, mobile[/tags]