Carnival of the Mobilists #255 Live @ MobileGroove
The first Carnival of the Mobilists (COM) sets up tents a last time this year at MobileGroove, marking the end of a great year for the mobile industry and an even better one for the COM.
This month we received a large number of submissions —covering the months of November and December — making it just that little bit tougher to choose the outstanding blogs to include in this final line-up. So, here we go…
- Chetan Sharma leads the pack with a must-read post recounting the highlights of his 8th Mobile Breakfast Series event.
- Martin Wilson at Mobileweb Company has two worthwhile submissions. The first, a guest post on his company blog by Tina de Souza, provides recommendations to companies on how to address the retail crisis hitting the U.K. hard. In the second post Martin walks us through the basics of Google’s GoMo Initiative.
- Tomi Ahonen does his math to present us a gloomy prediction of what Nokia’s smartphone market share will likely be for 4Q2011.
- Carlo Longino over at WIP Connect submits a must-read practical post based on his recent interview with TouchType CMO Joe Braidwood. By way of background, TouchType’s SwiftKey is one of the leading paid Android apps in several markets, and has seen a huge amount of success despite having a relatively small marketing budget.
- Dave Olsen argues that ‘mobile’ is becoming a prefix when we talk about the Web.
- Mark Bridge over at TheFonecast.com brings us a valuable roundup of the CES Unplugged consumer electronics event in London.
- James Cameron catches up with mobile veteran and Head of Product Management for BlueVia.
- Antoine RJ Wright brings together a variety of perspectives in his blog post to explain why mobile fails to be a satisfying experience.
- Francisco Kattan is back with a post that analyzes Amazon and helps us understand the real essence of its competitive edge.
- Steven Hoober explains the need to design for every screen and think touch points, not devices.
- MobileGroove ends the year with two submissions. The first post builds on an interview with Atlas Premium (which made it’s debut in the recent Netsize Guide by Gemalto, a must-red mobile industry analysis and almanac you can download here for free). The second submission —from guest columnist Lisa Ciangiulli over at Optism —offers us an in-depth analysis of Starbucks’ mobile strategy.
Pick of the month goes to Tomi for his comprehensive —and somewhat controversial — analysis of issues at Nokia.
FINALLY,
Remember anyone can submit their best blog to the COM for consideration. Simply email your submission for the week to mobilists@gmail.com. If your post is selected, then the host will provide you a link to post share and tweet to your community.
Also : send in your image (thumbnail), your Twitter handle and a 50-100 word description of what you do. And don’t forget to follow the COM on Twitter (@TheMobilists) and spread the word!
