Welcome to the 21st Carnival of the Mobilists!!! It is an honor to be hosting this weeks Carnival of the Mobilists here at MOpocket! Its hard to believe that the Carnival is now 21 which means, to remind my European readers, that the Carnival can now legally partake in alcoholic substances and download pornography in the United States! Just in time for the Gathering of the Mobilists over at CTIA in sin city Las Vegas! Which I have just been told by Rudy via Skype is now booked.

Any-who, thanks for all those that submitted articles to this weeks coming of adult age (american version) Carnival of the Mobilists! There is some really top notch writing this time around so lets get started.

MOBILE + SOCIETY

First off, Mr Rheingold over at Smart Mobs posts about a really interesting interview that he and Mimi Ito gave on Keitai (thats japanese for mobile phone) culture, a favorite subject of mine.

MOBILE MARKETING

Troy Norcross over at consumer-preference.com’s mobile marketing and spam blog tells it like it is when it comes to concerns over mobile marketing for children. Go Troy! Protect our kids!

While we are on the subject of kids, check out Stowe Boyd’s blog in which he, citing two of our very own mobilists) chimes in on the extremes of cellphone identity from both ends of the spectrum.

WOMEN IN MOBILE

Rudy from M-Trends continues the much needed Woman in Mobile series with a tribute to Judy Breck a digital integration genius who is doing many wonderful things for this world. He’s got a way with mobile women I tell ya….

OPERATOR/CARRIERS

Ok, there are two really good posts about EU’s decision to Ban Roaming charges. The first comes from Ian Wood (aka the Digital Evangelist) in which he discusses what good can come of all this (besides not having to pay tariffs while roaming). Then, Tomi T. Ahonen of the communities dominate blog chimes in with some ideas of his own on what the carriers should be doing now.

MOBILE APPLICATIONS

The boys over at Mobhappy have a nice little piece on the “Free Stuff for Advertising” phenomena and how it is infiltrating the mobile space. Russell thinks its not so pretty.

Debi Jones from Mobile Jones writes about a really interesting mobile 2.0 project called emosive a Flash application that mashes up tunes, song lyrics, and Flickr photos.

T Norcross presents Minimo open source mobile browser new release impressive posted at Walter Adamson.

Newcomer Prashant John over at discobabu analyzes what is needed for a google like location based service.

PURELY SMS

In her usual fun but elegant style Darla Mack of the same named darlamack blog shows the signs the an SMS explosion is on the cusp here in the States as more and more SMS services are being displayed on adds and by adds but how, already, its being taken over by the 1-900 sluts and hunks who all want to text with you for only 99 cents. Can you txt dirty?

APPLE STUFF

Dennis’ from Wap Review sent in a post that as a Mac user i enjoyed immensely. I am surprised to, now that I think about it. What will it take for more Apple specific mobile sites to pop up… an Apple Phone?

Everyones favorite Pondering Primate (one day you will have to tell us where all this monkey business came from) The Vanilla Gorilla thinks so with his post on the potential of Apple’s move into the mobile sphere and the possibility of them becoming a mobile marketing powerhouse.

POLITICS

Lady Xen that cute Klonie Israeli from over at Xellular Identity ponders real political SMS voting. For people really interesting in this subject also check out what a company called Mobile Voter is doing regarding SMS voter registration here in the States… via Textually

TECHIE STUFF

Daniel Taylor over at Mobile Enterprise Weblog writes a treatise on the role of IT and the human IT management processes where he clarifies what he meant by a “Hobson’s Choice for enterprise IT” in an earlier carnival post.

Ajit Jaokar from over at open gardens writes about how Ajax will will replace both J2ME and XHTML as the preferred platform for mobile applications development.

VOIP

Ken Banks over at Kiwanja.net has some amusing thoughts on what it means to Skype.

FINALLY

Well, thats everyone. If you think I left you out let me know

Before I get to to my post and my choice post of the week I just want to say how great it is to be a part of this mobilists community. All of you have been so nice in helping me and MOpocket out during these its early days and your kindness and advice have meant the world to me. I have enjoyed meeting those of you who I have met and am very much looking forward to meeting those of you that I have not yet met

MY CHOICES

Ok, my choice post of the week goes to a new blog in general. I want to introduce my fellow mobilists to the newest addition to the mobilist weblog world… mobileactive.org a community of activists dedicated to exploring ways of using the mobile medium for social good and other types of activism. Of particular post importance please check out Ken Bank’s (the founder of FrontlineSMS) post on riding the MobileActive wave.

FROM MOpocket

As for my post of the week I want everyone to take a look at my my post (and I am sorry Dorrian for not having done this sooner) on an amazing new SMS service and technology here in the states called Mozes.

If you are in the UK don;t forget to help end the Seal Hunt by texting the word “Ban It” to 60123 (more info)

Well, thats all! See some of you at CTIA!

Next weeks carnival of the Mobilsists is at Helen Keegan’s Musing of a Mobile Marketer (no rest for us CTIA wanderers, we are hardcore mobilists!)

The Carnival invites new writers about mobile as well as old friends to participate - you don’t need a special invite. Send your entry no later than next Wednesday, April 5th at 9PM PST to: mobilists@gmail.com. And, if you have any feedback about any of the posts, the idea behind the Carnival, or its format or style, please leave a comment as we’d love to hear from you. For more information regarding the Carnival of the Mobilists visit here.

Thats all and thanks for visiting and remember to come back often!

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