Its been a long time since MOpocket has hosted a Carnival Of The Mobilists and we are honored to be able to host this weeks 134th addition. MOpocket has been down for a while but is now up and running with new writer and Webmaster Mordy Gilden as well as your usual old favorites.
While its the middle of the summer and people are off relaxing and not doing their normal work routines people have still found some time to post some great mobile related posts and I look forward to sharing them with you all here.
Along the Carnival I have posted pictures from a great post I found on How to Beat Carnival Games. An issue some of you might come across over the summer months 
Lets start with the new-commers!
NEW COMERS
Joining the Carnival for the first time is Shaun Zelbers Mobile Open Blog with an interesting post which provides a starting kit for .mobi (or mobile internet) development. The post also goes into important considerations when thinking about the Mobile Internet in general and I look forward to discovering more mobile web development applications and tricks via this site.
But you cant get to the Mobile web without data and joining the Carnival for the first time as well is Ari Zoldan and his blog Going WiMax. In the world of iPhone and mobile applications its easy to forget about broadband issues but Zoldan is one of those Wimax experts that makes thinking about broadband (in this case WiMax) fun. His insight is clear in this post regarding Clearwire’s WiMAX testing and Acquirement of IDT’s spectrum. But I would peruse this blog some more to read its amazing content.
Mobile Learning
From Carnival administrator Judy Breck’s Golden Swamp we have a first hand experience post with some extra insight on teenage usages of mobile devices when it comes to education and what educators (not kids) should do about it! (and all caused by the new BatMan movie.) Her concluding remarks are right on the money.
Mobile Social Networking
Sachendra Yadav muses upon a notion I have always agreed with, namely that the mobile phone’s “contact list” is already the worlds largest mobile social networking platform given the very nature of what it is. Sachendra tells us about a company called Zyb, a mobile platform that enhances your phone book into an even more social networky platform.
Mobile Content
Over at Martin Sauter’s (hey how are you man!) WirelesMoves blog, Martin gives a little ditty on when the Small Screen Becomes Big and the pro’s of using your mobile phone for content reading instead of the good old newspaper and magazine. He is asking for other peoples personal experiences when they have preferred their phone to other reading materials.
Mobile Usage Case Study
Steven Hoober’s Little Spring Design Blog uses the examples of Mobile Data Terminals inside police cars and emergency units to talk about what it takes to really make things mobile.
Mobile Money
Carnival regular C. Enrique Ortiz writes about Junipers study that NFC Mobile Payments to Reach US$75 Billion by 2013 and how we should look at that figure realistically. Reality or wish fulfillment?
Device Security
From Ajit Jaokar’s Open Gardens Blog we get the ambitions and skepticism surrounding OMTP’s Bondi.
Voice
Sara Lipman at Really Sarah Syndication takes on the notion of an only voice activated mobile world.
The New Mobile World
The first half of 2008 took the mobile industry by storm.. Nokia+Trolltech+Symbian, Android, BREW+Flash, Adobe Open Screen, LiMo
devices.. As the dust settles, Research Director Andreas Constantinou at Vision Mobile looks at how the mobile landscape is shaping around 7 centres of gravity.
Venture / iPhone
From Mobhappy we have a very important post reminding application developers that its not all about the iPhone. (Hey Carlo, I did not see you there :-))
MOpocket
Over here at MOpocket I want to tell you about an article I have written that examines text messaging campaigns with a focus on Chase Banks text–2-win mobile marketing campaign and their apparent reaction.
THE POST OF THE WEEK
This is a hard one as we really came down to two but the post of the week goes to Andreas Constantinou’s post on the New Mobile Landscape.
Next Week
Next weeks carnival will be at my friend Paul Ruppert’s Mobile Point of View blog (which apparently is celebrating one year!). For those of you that have not yet read it or have gotten to know Paul do so, immediately! He is one of the quiet thought leaders of this space.
For more info on the carnival and how to submit or host visit the Carnival of the Mobilists Website.
Have a good week!
Mobily yours,
Justin
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This weeks 141ist Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Chetan Sharma at Always On Real-Time Access, the Carnival showcases blog post gems from our industry’s busy week of events, including CTIA, TC50, DEMO, Mobile Web Strategies, and many others.
