Carnival of Mobilists 211: Best blogs on mobile in past week: Apple, Google, Blackberry, Opera, Blyk?

Its quite a moment in time, when we think of parties. In North America they have the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, a big party of winter sports (here's to my native Finland skating against Canada in the Ice Hockey final). In Latin America this is the time of the 'real' Carnival, the biggest of which is of course the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. In Europe the mobile industry gathers to party with the biggest industry event of the year as the Mobile World Congress commenced today in Barcelona Spain. All around the world yesterday we cherished our loved ones as it was Valentine's Day.






And here in Asia its the biggest party of the year for the whole continent, the start of the Lunar New Year (or known in the West as the 'Chinese New Year') and we are entering the Year of the Tiger here, as we see in this picture from my home country of Hong Kong. So yes, here at the Communities Dominate blog we have the honour of hosting the Carnival of the Mobilists for the third time. It is Carnival number 211. Welcome.

PARTY ON WAYNE, PARTY ON GARTH DEPARTMENT

(A bit of Canada-related humor there from Wayne's World, Wayne's World, party time, excellent...). Yes, obviously I meant to say Valentine's Day department. Andy Favell at MobiThinking looks at Valentine's Day 2010 and how new mobile services can capitalize on the annual day of love. Not just how to offer messages and ads, but also how to sell through the mobile platform on Valentine's Day.

PLATFORMS FOR YOUR PLATFORM SHOES DEPARTMENT

Here in mobile we always fuss about our platforms, standards and systems. Dennis Bournique at WAP Review writes of Opera Mini and points out the smart little Java ME browser that runs on most phones, has about as many active users as iPhone and iPod Touch combined. Dennis has good illustrative images at the blog and asks developers not to forget the millions of users on Opera Mini.

Then Ajit Jaokar at Open Gardens describes vividly a near-future scenario where Twitter becomes the glue to enable the internet of things. He even shows prelimiary services on Twitter that are steering the web into that direction.

DESIGN TIPS AND PARTY ADVICE

And do we love them apps eh? Yes we do. Barbara Ballard of Little Springs Design has a simple example of poor mobile internet design related to gaming, with a very simple and clear guide on what should happen on a link - and what actually happened.

Then at Peggy-Ann Salz's M-Search Groove, Antti Ohrling, one of the co-founders of Blyk gives a guest column on the role of messaging in mobile advertising, with very userful and perceptive seven rules. He also gives a good overview of the new strategy for Blyk now as it now partners with many mobile operators to deliver targeted mobile advertising.

THE APPLE OF MY GOOGLE DEPARTMENT

It seems almost a 'law' of mobile telecoms, that we cannot have a day go by without something about the Apple iPhone or of Google's interests in mobile. This Carnival is no exception.

What is the The iPhone Effect in South Korea? It may surprise you. An unanticipated outcome is how the introduction of the iPhone opened South Korea's market for many Android phones, explained by Tashi Levent-Levi of Radvision's Voip Survivor blog.

Then we have Francisco Kattan at his blog explaining how Dynamic Cell ID can be used by operators to block Google from "stealing" location from their networks. (This is revised version of the summary to the blog. I apologize Francisco for my original Carnival entry misrepresenting your blog)

WASTE NOT THINE REALITY DEPARTMENT

Russell Buckley gives another thought-provoking posting at MobHappy about how AR (Augmented Reality that is) may perpetuate a world of digital trash. Is very well worth thinking about and has a great illustrative video at the blog

REST IN PEACE DEPARTMENT

CEO ie C Enrique Ortiz gives the RIP eulogy for Dot Mobi (ie .mobi) - Enrique feels Dot Mobi did achieve good education and visibility for mobile at a time when it was really needed. And he has hopes for new gains out of the hopefully new .mobi as it enters a new phase.

WE HATE HYSTERIA AND HYPE DEPARTMENT (oh, don't get me started)

Tam Hanna at TamsBlackBerry blog looks at the overblown hysteria that uninformed journalists gave to the recent Blackberry hack.

Here from the Communities Dominate blog we won't offer any blog submissions but simply remind that for all your mobile industry data needs for 2010, bookmark our statistical industry review page. We hope it will serve you well in the upcoming year, even after the partying is over and we all have to return to reality. Next week's Carnival is not yet set, if you are a past Carnival entrant, you can still rush to enter to host it. See www.mobili.st for more. 

BEST BLOG OF WEEK

All good parties have to come to an end. Antti Ohrling's guest column seemed to me to bring the greatest value to this week's Carnival. His seven rules for mobile advertising are: Permission, Relevancy, Timing, Value, Two-way communication, Measurement, and Keep it simple. Very good advice in this year when we expect mobile advertising to nearly double again as it grew by 85% last year. So thank you Antti and M-Search Groove, for thebest blog post of the 211th edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists. (Party on Wayne, party on Garth!)

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