Carnival of the Mobilists

We welcome Mark Bridge, who steps up to host the Carnival this week at Fonecast.

The line-up of thought-provoking posts includes:

• Carl Martin at Mobsessed tells us why Google’s Nexus One may be a “fail”
• Over at TamsS60 Symbian blog, Tam Hanna asks if Apple or Nokia really supports developers – period.
• At Mobyaffiliates, James Coops discusses the potential of pay-per-call and click-to-call mobile advertising.
• Over at MSearchGroove Taptu CEO Steve Ives speaks out in a podcast about the existence, evolution and future of the Mobile Touch Web.
• Antoine RJ Wright asks if there really has to be an app for everything.
• C. Enrique Ortiz suggests explores how handsets with computational power (smartphones indeed!) might be linked together in networks to solve complex problems.
• Chetan Sharma shares his quarterly update on the U.S. wireless data market for Q1 2010.
• Finally, Ajit Jaokar weighs in with his views about the Google/AdMob deal still under discussion by the FTC.

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Roll up for the Carnival at Mobyaffiliates, where James Coops curates the #1 place for making money on mobile.

The line-up – representing the best of mobile blogging — includes:

• A look at mobile advertising and tough questions around Apple, iAd and the impact of the  Google-AdMob acquisition from Andy Favell at MobiThinking.
• A stat-packed look at why mobile is booming from mobile guru C Enrique Ortiz.
• An excellent overview of RIM BlackBerry from Carlo Longino – that recounts key figures and highlights of the recent WIP Wireless Industry Partnership BlackBerry event.
• Mark Bridge over at Fonecast provides us his personal analysis of the Google Nexus One handset.
• Over at Open Gardens Ajit Jaokar weighs in with his take on Google, Nexus one and the d2c strategy.
• Amdocs’ Matt Anderson provides arguments and in-depth research to show that the “future could in fact be rather bright indeed – not just for service providers, but for the entire ecosystem – if service providers were to start taking specific steps to improve off-portal services and digital commerce.”
• And finally, a podcast at MSearchGroove tracks Blyk’s launch in the Netherlands after fine-tuning its business model.

READ THE COM #223 HERE

This time the Carnival comes to us from Volker Hirsch’s insightful destination commenting on all things mobile.

This week the line-up includes:

• James Coops from Mobyaffiliates provides us with an excellent overview of mobile affiliate networks.
• Jay Ehret asks the question: “Is it the Year of Mobile yet?”. And he has some refreshing answers.
• Dr Jim Taylor delights us with a look at the phenomenon of over-sharing and social media.
• Ajit Jaokar from the OpenGardensBlog looks at the decline of fixed line and the future of mobile.
• Peggy Anne Salz at MSearchGroove features a podcast on app store marketing.
• Tego Interactive’s Alfred de Rose asks if the Apple needs an iPhone in the enterprise.
• And, finally, Rudy de Waele tells us all about his next event, Mobile 2.0 Europe.

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