I’m happy to host the 86th installment of the Carnival of the Mobilists, founded some time ago by Russell here at MobHappy. It’s great to see the Carnival carrying on, and Judy Breck is now doing a fantastic job of running the show. The Carnival continues to be a vibrant and active community, keeping tabs on and making sense of this dynamic industry. So without further ado…
Xen Mendelsohn kicks things off this week with a “30,000 ft. view” of the mobile content market. A solid overview of the mobile content market that’s worth bookmarking for later reference and background.
Following Xen’s intro, Michael Mace at Mobile Opportunity says that Amazon’s new Flexible Payments Service could be a boon for the off-deck mobile content market, since it gives content providers another outlet to bill for their goods — and one that doesn’t come with the onerous revenue-sharing requirements of carrier billing.
At the Skydeck blog, Jason Devitt goes over Nokia’s recent sales figures, looking at what’s driving the company’s big market share gains.
Dennis at Wap Review this week looks at the mobile version of RSS reader NewsGator, and finds a lot of promise, but also some pretty serious usability problems.
Antoine RJ Wright says that social networks need to do a better job of integrating with mobile, so they can drive more offline social interaction, rather than just online virtual interaction.
At his Mobile Point View Site, Paul Ruppert takes a look at Chinese newspapers’ moves to go mobile.
My own contribution to the Carnival this week was a post on a couple of companies that want to deliver the mobile equivalent of pop-up ads to users’ idle screens.
Other posts this week came from Darla Mack, with details of the SlingPlayer for Symbian trial, the Masabi blog on using thick vs thin clients for mobile data apps, Open Gardens with some notes on a mobile ad roundtable, and from Taptology on the fun of Orange UK’s content filter.
Thanks for all the entries, and be sure to submit for next week’s carnival, hosted by Darla Mack!
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