Carnival Of The Mobilists #253
This month Tomi Ahonen moves the Carnival up a gear, combining blogging and Bowie to rock us through a collection of September’s best blogs. Today also marks the fifth time that Tomi has stepped up to the plate – so many thanks indeed!
- Martin Wilson at Mobileweb Company tells what can make —and break — your mobile strategy.
- Anne Thomas over at the Wapple blog makes a strong case for us to develop mobile-optimized websites, and supports this with some serious stats.
- Sacha Vekeman over at the Mobiya blog describes how Google is now providing Google Trader (which has launched in Ghana as a kind of copy-cat of Mobiya).
- Ajit Jaokar at Open Gardens shares his insights on what makes Smart Cities smart, and preps us for the massive changes afoot.
- Antoine RJ Wright talks about the opportunities in the market space emerging between tablets and smartphones and the services that might benefit.
- Rodrigo Arantes over at Apito e Mercado blog writes about the tensions in the OS wars and makes a plea for more open standards and open source projects.
- Alex Franks over on the Blyk blog discusses location based services and the fit with mobile marketing.
- Steve and Alison Hoober offer us a useful guide we can follow when integrating smartphone-related hand gestures into guidebooks and tutorials.
- Sachendra Yadav anticipates the changes in the lives of people in Bangalore a few years from now when phones have NFC capability.
- Jonathan MacDonald explores attitudes (especially with the advertising industry) toward change is a thought-provoking blog aptly titled Change is the Enemy of the Competent.
- Peggy Anne Salz provides us the highlights of a recent Tweetchat with Tomi Ahonen and Paul Berney, CMO of the Mobile Marketing Association.
I suggest adding a “google+” button for the blog!
Hellen
Yes! that is coming and thanks for pointing this out.