mobi Enthusiast .mobi

Welcome back to mobiEnthusiast^TM Magazine in sunny Southern California for another exciting edition of Carnival of the Mobilists #225. Carnival of the Mobilists is a roundup of the best and brightest bloggers who write about mobile technologies and news. So, what’s new this week on the mobile web?

Mobile finance takes center stage this week on two of our contributors’ blogs:

Andy Favell at mobiThinking.com – Mobile money will make the world go round – It’s packed with statistics, as we’ve come to expect from Andy for the mobile marketing professionals.
Carl Martin of Mobsessed- A Pitch to Financial Institutions: You need to GET mobile

In developer news:

Volker Hirsch from Volker on Mobile (who has excellent taste in Wordpress themes) asks: “Has Android Got Game?“
Tam Hanna ofTamsS60 – the Symbian Blog alerts developers to a bug in rendering graphics on particular phones in Sony Ericsson Vivaz distorts bitmap application icons
Tsahi Levent-Levi of VOIP Survivor writes about the main challenges of integrating mobile video telephony into the Android OS by handset vendors in The 3 Biggest Challenges of Integrating 3G-324M into Android
Google, Apple and the Internet OS from Andrea Trasatti’s tech notes and more. Andrea doesn’t know I’m including his work, but I find his technical knowledge to be an important piece of the mobile landscape and added him as a write-in entry.

Net neutrality

Ajit Jaokar of Open Gardens takes the bull by the horns (sorry, couldn’t resist) in The holy cow of net neutrality: Should Operators be the only ones feeling guilty about net neutrality and are we confusing net neutrality with tiered pricing?Among other considerations, Ajit states that there is no such thing as net neutrality on platforms like Twitter and Facebook when they make the transition from platform to service provider, and it’s the developers of games and apps on these platforms who bear the brunt of the lack of transparency. Thank you for standing up for developers, Ajit – you have the post of the week.

The iPad is still capturing the attention of bloggers:

Antoine RJ Wright calls his iPad a “spoke in the wheel” of mobile, and not the showstopper he expected in Living with an iPad, or How My Smartphone Gets Smarter

In light of the recent FTC decision to allow the Google/Admob merger to stand, this article is another write-in entry I found this week:

Going Mobile: How iAd and AdMob Move Apple vs. Google to a New Playing Field from Knowledge@Wharton

Mobile Publishing

mSearchGroove

Thomson Reuters SVP Plea To Publishers: Go Mobile, But Focus On Companion Products & Mobile Commerce including “the pivotal importance of iPhone and iPad apps and the business imperative to pursue monetization models beyond ad-funded and freemium.”

and

Another reason for companies to think bigger than apps: M-PUBLISHING PODCAST: Handmark CEO Tells Why ‘Good Brands & Great Apps’ May Not Cut It

Finally, for a fairly thorough history of mobile and mobile considerations, pour yourself a giant cup of coffee or tea and plan an extra twenty minutes or so to visit with Tomi Ahonen of Communities Dominate Brands. He wrote Everything you ever wanted to know about mobile, but were afraid to ask. For our small business owners, mobile marketers, students and mobile newbies reading today, this puts a great deal of where we are today into perspective.

Thanks for reading, and remember, if you write about mobile, you can be part of the next Carnival. Please visit Mobili.st for further details.

Bookmark It