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Carnival of the Mobilists #77

by Zach at 9:14 pm | June 10th, 2007 | Category: Links

Welcome to the 77th edition of Carnival of the Mobilists! This is the first time that the Carnival has been hosted here on SiMo so welcome to all of the new visitors. Just like its predecessors, this week’s Carnival is packed full of the best writing from around our ever-growing blogosphere. So sit back, take a sip of that coffee, make sure that your calls are forwarded - and enjoy!

We’ll start things off this week on the C. Enrique Ortiz Mobility Weblog where Enrique applies the offline mentality of offerings such as Dojo Offline and Google Gears to the mobile environment. In his post The Future of Web Applications is “Local”, Enrique touches upon the technical aspects of applying interactive offline concepts to mobile devices and details some reasons that offline content will be so important.

We’re already seeing some instances of offline mobile content as Dennis of WAP Review points out in Offline Browing with Opera Mini, Bloglines, And Gmail. Dennis details how he uses the combination of Opera Mini and Bloglines to satisfy his need for offline RSS content, and that Google’s Gmail java app can perform a similar function with his email.

On the other side of the coin, Mobicious is a new mobile content discovery and delivery service discussed in detail in Xen Mendelsohn’s post Mobicious: One Part iTunes, One Part Google on Xellular Identity. As new devices, better data plans and integrated WiFi continue to make the mobile web more accessible, services like Mobicious make the PC and mobile browsing experiences more and more analogous.

Speaking of digital content, the Nokia Media Transfer tool for Mac is now available and noted all across our blogosphere. Jonathan Greene of the atmaspheric endeavors blog posted the first screen caps and brief walk through that I came across in his post Nokia Media Transfer is Very Cool. Rudy De Waele of m-trends.org is equally impressed and gives us some quick thoughts in his post Playing with Nokia Media Transfer.

In his first contribution to the Carnival, Paul Ruppert of Mobile Point of View discusses mobile remittance technology and the new regions that must be targeted for expansion. His post Next Big Thing in Mobile: Bottom of the Pyramid Plays considers the technology that will facilitate the future of mobile remittances and the current and potential financial benefits surrounding mobile transactions.

Digital books are another example of an emerging mobile industry that is gaining increased popularity in several regions. In Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow in Mass Media part X - Books Tomi Ahonen of Communities Dominate Brands discusses the potential of the digital book market and highlights Japan as an example of the success that mobile novel offerings have already had.

Is there any social networking service gaining heat faster than Twitter right now? I would wager that most of the people reading this have visited twitter.com at some point and many have even registered. Gerrit Visser of Smart Mobs linked to a great article this past week in his post Twitter for Business: Toy or Tool? As you’ll read, Twitter can be used for much more than just tweeting with your pals.

Looking back at the history of mobile and electronic technology, Tarek El Ghazali of the Symbiano-TeK blog compares Nokia phones of old to the newer Nseries devices in his post When SMS was a Feature. I can remember the first time I saw a mobile phone send an SMS - and indeed I thought it was amazing!

Moving from the past to the present and future of mobile technology, Barbara Ballard covers a topic that really interests me on the Little Springs Design blog. Her post Paper Computing discusses the “digital pen” technology offered by companies like Livescribe and Nokia. I haven’t yet had the chance to try one of these products but thinking ahead to a future where even school children are using this technology, I can’t help but breathe a sigh of relief for forests around the globe.

Ricky Cadden of Symbian-Guru.com ponders why cross-platform gaming isn’t truly interconnected yet in his Thoughts on Mobile Gaming post. These days popular stationary and portable gaming consoles can all connect to the internet in one way or another, as can mobile phones that support gaming. So why can’t gamers save and load data across platforms?

Considering a different aspect of mobile gaming, ad-supported games are becoming much more common these days. Ted Wugofski posted a very good article entitled Datacasting and Mobile Advertisements on his OJO Mobile blog that discusses a better way to advertise to the mobile community. Ted talks about how datacasting can result in a more efficient, versatile and cost-effective campaign for advertisers as opposed to the 1:1 approach.

Last but not least - my favorite post of the week! This past Friday Krisse posted an excellent article over on All About Symbian. The Big Fight 2007: Series 40 vs S60 pits two of the latest devices from Nokia against each other in an OS fight to the finish. Krisse’s article is an outstanding feature that is packed with insights and images to help you follow along. Is the gap between standard-platform devices and smart-platform devices narrowing? Click through and find out!

That wraps up this week’s Carnival and I hope that you found the linked articles as interesting and informative as I did. Be sure to check out Carnival #78 next week when it will be hosted by my buddy and everyone’s favorite guru of all that is Symbian - Ricky of Symbian-Guru.com. That’s two Symbian- themed blogs in a row… I like it! :)

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