Welcome readers of Carnival of the Mobilists

Attention visitors from the Carnival of the Mobilists:

Welcome to this blogsite

I am honoured to be included in the Carnival of the Mobilists. You will find most of the bloggers on the Carnival to be "pure" on mobile telecoms topics, and this site may seem to be a bit "off-centre" for some visitors interested in purely mobile telecoms topics.

I've written three bestselling books on next generation "3G" mobile telecoms, so mobile is at the heart of my background and I regularly write, speak and consult on mobile telecoms. But my fourth book was co-authored with Advertising/Marketing/Branding guru Alan Moore, and we took a more comprehensive look at the convergence of telecoms, internet and media. In analyzing those we discovered the emergence of digital communities, which resulted in our book, my fourth, and this blogsite Communities Dominate Brands.

Thus this blogsite has often mobile telecoms related stories, but there are also lots of stories about the internet eg blogging, search etc; as well as media (digital TV, music, videogaming, advertising) and a lot about the new connected consumer. As essentially all of those various industries are now exploring the mobile telecoms dimension, there will often be mobile telecoms issues related to most postings here.

But for those, who would like to visit this site as a member of the Carnival of Mobilists, I would like to point you to four recent postings of mine, to show the kind of thought-leadership I frequently offer at this blogsite. Please consider these four postings, to evaluate my contributions to the Carnival.

2006: The Year the i-Pod Died

This is my most recent "controversial" posting, and typical of the future-facing postings, conference presentations and articles of mine. I discuss the mass-market of music players in 2006, mobile phone versus the stand-alone i-Pod.

Don't Feed the Lions

This is a posting typical of my "Pearl of the Month" and the discoveries I make of new innovations in the mobile space. I have a collection of literally over 1000 of these, and over 300 of them are in my first two books.

Monster Statistic: 2 billion cellphones, its now official

I am also deeply involved in the analysis and forecasts for the mobile telecoms industry, as I chair or present at most leading forecasting conferences and also am frequently called to task about my predictions. At 2 billion cellphones, its more than internet users, more than TV sets, more than automobiles, more than credit card holders, etc. Read the posting for more..

Economist falls for Skype-Hype: wrongly predicts end to mobile voice calls

Finally, occasionally I am struck by bad analysis of our industry. This was one blatant example, where the Economist wrote an excellent piece on Skype threatening fixed landline telecoms, and then wrongly leaped to the conclusion that mobile telecoms is even more threatened by Skype. I explained very deeply what was wrong with the story.

If you like these types of blog postings, please visit this blogsite for more. But keep in mind that Alan Moore and I set up this blogsite to deal with a more broad area, specifically those digital customer-communities, and look at mobile telecoms only as one area that is affected. Thus this site is likely to have only one or two mobile phone-specific postings per week.

You may well find that the mainstream postings at this blogsite are of also great interest.

One more thought. All who are interested in the Carnival of Mobilists, may become interestedin exploring these matters more deeply, with not only most of the "Carnivalists", but also many of the leading authors of 3G/mobile telecoms books and other leading experts. We got together in September to start up Forum Oxford, as the definitive discussion board for the industry. As the Forum is sponsored by Oxford University, it is free now, and will be free forever. We have over 400 active members posting 10 new topics every week and average 8 new messages per day. Come join us. For your first-time registration you need a registration code "forumoxford". Join the Forum at:

www.ForumOxford.com

See you there as well  :-)

Regardless, thank you for visiting us here at Communities Dominate Brands, and if you like this blogsite, you will love our bestselling book of the same name   :-)

Comments

[Juno Mindoes]

There’s no doubt that the white iPhone 4 has a much better camera than the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3Gs, and the new HDR functionality makes it even easier to get good results during hard lighting conditions.