The Carnival of Mobilists no. 35 Is Here

Hi everyone!

After a month of the football craze, the world cup is now coming to the climax with the final being played this weekend with the Carnival of Mobilists! Two of the European superpowers, the aging French team against the attacking might of the Italians are going to sweat on the field for the title... The excitement is everywhere (especially at my work place) so read these great posts divided to a few fields and then go for the best (and last) football mania moments :)  And... let the game begin!

The Mobile Web Field

Starting with the captain, Martin Sauter, with my favorite post of the week: a great tip to operators - note the little things that make or break the user experience, the little difference between a goal and a missed shot!

Dennis at the Wap Review joins the field and takes a look at the new beta version of Yahoo Mobile email finding it promising and more attractive - even though there’s always a room for more…

Wanna shoot a goal? Wanna know how can Samsung, Sprint, Palm, Verizon or Nokia turn into a mobile internet company? The Pondering Primate answers it thoroughly.

The Social Networks Field

C. Enrique Ortiz responds with his 5 reasons why social networks (mobile and web) fail to a received ball from Tristan Louis, who defines the basic elements of a successful (and unsuccessful) social network. Great team work boys!

On the same team of Social Networks: Anders Borg summarizes the current state of the mobile IM and distincts it from the usage of SMS/MMS. No doubt that the mobile IM offers new outlets to sharing and expressing which will generate revenues for the operators.

Justin Oberman explores the field of Second Life and the mobile opportunities lying there, saying "the field is free, pass the ball here"...

And to my contribution to my team: I'm covering Cellcom's attempt to leverage the web 2.0 success with its users generated content and social network to promote the operator's new 3G services. Looks like identifying the next mobile trend is not enough...

The Mobile Marketing Field

Among the cheerleaders we have two real experts, one screaming "yay" and the other screaming "boooo":

David Murphy at the Mobile Marketing Magazine brings a great example of choosing the right medium to the conveyed message (for a recruiting IT engineers campaign) by using MobileTag solution.

Helen Keegen shares her unplesant experience of receiving Lakeside Shopping Mall's lame SMS marketing efforts and shares her insight and comments as a mobile marketer.

The Mobile Apps Field

Thomas Landspurg introduces a new field for our players: the mobile (and web) widgets as the equivalent of “Web2.0″ apps for the mobile. Interesting!

Darla Mack asks, why on earth would you pay for something you can do on your own?! Save the ticket money and watch the game at home...

The Mobile Industry Field

In honor of Canada Day (and the Canadians who didn't get to play in the world cup), Stephanie Rieger writes a deep review of the mobile (wireless?) industry in Canada: penetration figures, stats, lifestyle, "some local context" and Stephenie's interesting predictions for the future of the Canadian mobile industry.

Daniel Taylor looks at Sybase's last moves announcing the information product suite on action replay and raises some interesting questions about them. 

Well...

It was a real pleasure having you all here, cheering and screaming, you crazy fans! ;) But every game ends after 90 or so minutes, the team hits the showers and gets a rest and the crowd goes home... (I bet it didn't take you that long to read all the way through). Hope you enjoyed and see you next week at Mobile Jones!

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Comments

[Darla]

Woohoo!!! Rah Rah Rah!! Lol, excellent job girl! (shakes pom pom's wildly)

[mobilejones]

Really nice job on the CoM, Xen. You've set the bar high for the rest of us. Brava!

[Xen]

thank you girls for the compliments :)