Carnival Of The Mobilists 253 - Best blogs of the month about mobile: this time its all about change

Welcome to the Carnival of the Mobilists, the best blogs about the mobile industry of the month. This time we cover the month of September - give or take a day or week or two..  Yes, sorry we went well into October this time but yes, technically this is September's Carnival. We are up to Carnival 253 and for us here at the Communities Dominate blog its already the fifth time we have the honor of hosting the Carnival. We also did it with:

COTM 47 in 2 Oct 2006
COTM 93 in 3 Oct 2007
COTM 211 in 15 Feb 2010
COTM 229 in 5 July 2010

As usual, there were many more entries than we could select among the winners. I wanted to keep this strictly to the ten best blogs, and it was tough deciding who didn't make it (and of course I cheated a bit haha as you'll see).

When I was looking at what I had left, the theme for today seems to be change. So I call upon the guest bard to sing a song for us at the Carnival, about Change, and as there is more than one change going on, it will obviously need to be David Bowie, singing his song Changes.

Still don't know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets and
Every time I thought I'd got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I've never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I'm much too fast to take that test

So lets start our Carnival with some themes of our bloggers tackling mobile - and change. First up we have Martin Wilson on the Mobile Web Company blog, where he writes about how the wrong approaches can wreck your mobile strategy. (Martin's Twitter handle is @Indigo102)

Anne Thomas over at the Wapple blog echoes similar themes and calls any of us lazy who don't bother to do mobile optimized websites, plus tosses in some statistics about how much it will cost you too. 

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
Turn and face the strange
Ch-ch-Changes
Don't want to be a richer man

Sacha Vekeman over at the Mobiya blog writes about a different type of change happening in Africa, where few have access to the web, but Google is now providing Google Trader which has launched in Ghana as a kind of copy-cat of Mobiya. Google's other African initiative Google SMS is also discussed that has launched in Uganda. (Sacha's Twitter handle is @svekeman )

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
Turn and face the strange
Ch-ch-Changes
Just gonna have to be a different man

Ajit Jaokar at the Open Gardens blog tells us of a great manifesto to the future of cities, in what makes Smart Cities smart. That is certainly more change for us all to witness. (Ajit everybody knows is @ajitjaokar of course on TW and we should all be following him)

I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence
So the days float through my eyes
But stil the days seem the same

On the pure hardware side of of mobile we are seeing more change, Antoine RJ Wright tells on his blog of the market space that is appearing between tablets and smarpthones and anticipates services built to capitalize on that. (Antoine is @arjwright on TW)

And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through

Rodrigo Arantes at the Apito e Mercado blog writes (this time in English, he usually blogs in Spanish) about the changes that now are increasing in the OS wars, and laments the loss of MeeGo - while begging for more open standards and open source projects. (Rodrigo's TW handle is @rodrigottr )

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
Turn and face the strange
Ch-ch-Changes
Don't tell them to grow up and out of it

Then we have LBS, Location-Based Services and there certainly is a need to change attitudes towards the utility of LBS, as Alex Franks writes on the Blyk blog that LBS should be only a part of mobile marketing activities and far greater benefits come from other aspects (hear-hear says Tomi..). (Alex's Twitter name is of course @alex_blyk )

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
Turn and face the stranger
Ch-ch-Changes
Where's your shame
You've left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you can't trace time

Talking about tracing.. Steve and Alison Hoober on their blog have a very useful guide to showing smartphone-related hand gestures in guidebooks and tutorials. They have really put some thinking into it, to make the gestures intuitive and consistent.

Strange fascination, fascinating me
Ah changes are taking the pace I'm going through

Sachendra Yadav at his blog anticipates the changes in how consumers behave in a nice scenario he describes of how a pair of friends will meet up in Bangalore a few years from now when their phones have NFC capability. (Sachendra is simply @sachendra on TW )
 
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
Turn and face the strange
Changes
Pretty soon now you're gonna get older
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
I said that time may change me
But I can't trace time

And then we have a commentary on change itself, by the man, Jonathan MacDonald ie JMac. He wrote on his blog about attitudes especially with the advertising industry adjusting to mobile advertising on his blog that Change is the Enemy of the Competent, a most insightful and thought-provoking blog. (JMac Tweets as @jmacdonald )

Thank you to David Bowie for serenading our Carnival this time with that whimsical song of yours about changes. So before we go to the best blog of the month, a few plugs. Peggy-Anne Salz (Who is @mobilegroove on TW) wrote a very nice write-up about the Tweetcast we had with Paul Berney (himself @paulbmma on TW) of the MMA, Peggy and me, about mobile marketing and Peggy went to find links to many of the cases we mentioned. An excellent summary of our one intense hour on Twitter.. If you're into mobile marketing, this blog is definitely worth reading even as it was not strictly a blog article as such.

We of course honor Steve Jobs's passing, yet another huge change for your industry and know mobile is better for Steve having been in it, and nothing will ever be quite the same again. From my side, under normal situations I would have submitted my blog about mobile money, but as host, obviously my entry will not be considered this week.

In picking this month's winner, I also decided to exclude the two blogs who mentioned me by name (thank you for mentioning me, obviously) as that would seem a bit questionable haha.. So who has the best blog in mobile this past month? It was a very tough call but in the end I went with JMac and his blog 'Change is the Enemy of the Competent'. Congratulations Jonathan MacDonald.

For those who are in or near England this coming week, on Friday 28 October Ajit Jaokar and I will be co-chairing again the annual Forum Oxford Conference - be there or be square.

Next Carnival of the Mobilists will be hosted at (TBA).

Comments

[jMac]

Thanks so much! Really appreciated!

I'd like to say that all of the posts you mention are great and it's an honour to be included with the boys and girls above.

Cheers everyone :)

[reverse cell phone lookup]

Remarkable post that had me riveted from the start!

[John Phamlore]

On the theme of everything going mobile, in the US, the HDTV standard adopted left out the same ability to be received in moving vehicles as the older analog over-the-air transmissions had (probably a feature not a bug). This was decided well over a decade ago, so it was clear that the future of video transmission was going to be left to mobile and that, at least in the US, the major carriers would have a great say.

So Nokia, the company that lived or died by its relationships with the carriers, decided to ally with ... Intel, the mortal enemy of the carriers with its WiMAX effort. Note the recent stories about Intel retrenching in some of its efforts in television.

Well done by the Linux moles inside Nokia.

[@rodrigottr]

Thanks Tomi!

All posts where really great and inspiring

:)

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Welcome to the Carnival of the Mobilists, the best blogs about the mobile industry of the month. This time we cover the month of September - give or take a day or week or two..

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Thank you to David Bowie for serenading our Carnival this time with that whimsical song of yours about changes. So before we go to the best blog of the month, a few plugs. Peggy-Anne Salz (Who is @mobilegroove on TW) wrote a very nice write-up about the Tweetcast we had with Paul Berney (himself @paulbmma on TW) of the MMA,

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So lets start our Carnival with some themes of our bloggers tackling mobile - and change.

[Charles Woodson Jersey]

And then we have a commentary on change itself, by the man,

[B.J. Raji Jersey]

We of course honor Steve Jobs's passing, yet another huge change for your industry and know mobile is better for Steve having been in it, and nothing will ever be quite the same again.

[landy bridal]

My best friend picked this bridesmaid dress for her August wedding.

[Donald Driver Jersey]

Peggy-Anne Salz (Who is @mobilegroove on TW) wrote a very nice write-up about the Tweetcast we had with Paul Berney (himself @paulbmma on TW) of the MMA, Peggy and me,

[Clay Matthews Jersey]

We of course honor Steve Jobs's passing, yet another huge change for your industry and know mobile is better for Steve having been in it, and nothing will ever be quite the same again.

[William Henderson Jersey]

And then we have a commentary on change itself, by the man, Jonathan MacDonald ie JMac. He wrote on his blog about attitudes especially with the advertising industry adjusting to mobile advertising on his blog that Change is the Enemy of the Competent, a most insightful and thought-provoking blog.

[Tramon Williams Jersey]

Talking about tracing.. Steve and Alison Hoober on their blog have a very useful guide to showing smartphone-related hand gestures in guidebooks and tutorials. They have really put some thinking into it, to make the gestures intuitive and consistent.

[Ryan Grant Jersey]

Pretty soon now you're gonna get older
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
I said that time may change me
But I can't trace time

[Reggie White Jersey]

Sachendra Yadav at his blog anticipates the changes in how consumers behave in a nice scenario he describes of how a pair of friends will meet up in Bangalore a few years from now when their phones have NFC capability. (Sachendra is simply @sachendra on TW