Carnival of the Mobilists #103

Welcome all to the Carnival!! GoldenSwamp.com is proud to host #103 of the weekly showcase of the best about mobile from the blogosphere. We do the hosting during the closing days of our old WordPress visual theme ‘ and invite you to come back soon to see the NEW sister blogs GoldenSwamp.com and Learnodes.com. But now, you are invited to wander down the midway of mobile that follows.

MINDS MEETING MOBILE
We begin with a blog feature written by Roland Piquepaille that has been going strong nearly twice as long as our Carnival. It is SmartMobs’ Roland’s Sunday Smart Trends #192. Headlining is the remarkable fact that half of the top selling books in Japan are written on mobile phones.

If you think they are only writing books in Japanese on and for mobiles, drop by Pat B. Doyle where she will tell you the skinny on: Publish an Ebook in Amazon’s Kindle Book Store! Pat did it, and tells you how you can.

These strong examples of minds meeting mobiles give me background for pointing you to my recent post at Golden Swamp: Education by Mouse Clicks.

THINGS TO DO WITH MOBILES
- Playing with the new Google Maps is described by Bernardo Carvalho at RawSocket.org.
- Paul Ruppert at Mobile Point of View writes about Mobile Payments: Top 10 Issues between Banks and Mobile Operators.
- Dennis at WAP Review plies his analytical skills in a Mobile Webmail Comparison.
- At Communities Dominate Brands Tomi Ahonen’s post is titled What is Mobile TV? More than TV, beyond just a phone.
- Ajit Jaokar at Open Gardens describes and analyzes Mobile Ajax, Google Gears on mobile and offline browsing.
- In an introductory post on Mobile Messaging 2.0 called What is a Mobile Message? Debi Jones tells us that over the next week MM2 will consider this question and invite readers to join in.

MOBILE STRUGGLES
- Jason Devitt on the Skydeck opines that Cell phone plans are too complicated for cell phone companies.
- At wpf blog, Monte Silver explores why people do and don’t adopt mobile applications in a post called You Pull. I’ll Push.
- Why The Mobile Web Had Such A Terrible Start is the title of Martin Sauter’s perceptive essay on Martin’s Mobile Technology Page.

AHEAD FOR MOBILE
- Mobile Myths is the subject of Morten Hjerde’s post at Sender 11.
- John Puterbaugh at Mobile 2.0 and Emerging Mobile Media Services looks down the road in Reviewing 2007 Mobile Predictions.
- Future of Indian Mobile Value Added Services (MVAS) is explained by Chetan Sharma at Always On Real-Time Access.
- Al stillong with the doubts, myths and predictions, Steve Ives is able to report from Taptu that mobile is huge as he writes the post called Mobile Penetration Hits 50% Globally: The lure of big numbers,
- And Mike at Cell Phone Guru can describe 6 Reasons Why an Apple is the Ultimate Temptation,
- And finally, Andreas Constantinou of Vision Mobile can tell us in Nokia’s Ovi equals S60 squared of strategy beyond mobile and acrossFinally, tall types of connected devices, and mediums.

BEST POST
This week’s Best Post nod goes to Katrina Verclas at MobileActive. All the features and services described in other posts are worth the creative effort when we see mobile functioning as social positive like this post describes: SMS support Network: Connecting People with HIV/AIDS in Mexico.

Next week’s host is C. Enrique Ortiz at About Mobility – The Mobility Weblog. There will then be a two week break for the Holidays before the 2008 Carnival of the Mobilists comes rolling back online in January.