Carnival of the Mobilists #188

August greetings from the GoldenSwamp where a New York City hot spell has everyone, including the frogs, taking a break. A lot of our Carnival bloggers seemed to have hopped offline too, since the number of posts this week dipped. But what came in is brimming with ideas and information. Let’s jump in:

Gerrit Visser writes at Howard Rheingold’s SmartMobs about a press announcement that “Layar Reality Browser 2.0 Launched Globally.” Gerrit sketches some details for this free application on your mobile phone which shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality though the camera of your mobile phone.

Ajit Jaokar post at OpenGardens is titled “Nokia’s mass market iPhone strategy is unlikely to work and Dave Stewart can never be the missionary man ..” After affirming that he is a long term of Nokia, Ajit proceeds with telling analysis.

Dennis Bournique at WAPReview provides his usual insightful comments on this subject: “US Prepaid Data Options – Making the Most of a Bad Lot” and concludes with some recommendations from this veteran mobile blogger.

Jose Colucci at MobileStrategy, who blogs as a Canadian consumer of financial services, sets out: “12 Reasons Why Canadian Banks Should Really Offer Mobile Services.” It is a beginning of a series on this mobilist blog that will surely have application not only in Canada.

Since it is the Frog Days of Summer and rules are suspended, (and there are not many submissions) there follow two posts by different authors from Little Spring Design (LSD).

Chris Nemeth, who is a first time contributor, writes on the LSD blog about “^location – adding in context to your content” — giving us location carets and lat-long irrelevance … hours before Twitter announces lat-long API.

Steven Hoober, LSD Senior Interaction Designer, analyzes “sustainability of the mobile industry.” I have encountered before these edgy LSD thinkers in the Lawrence, Kansas mobile design hotbed, and recommend Steve’s evaluations and his speculations about the unforeseen and unpredictable.

And finally, a post from me, Judy Breck, at my GoldenSwamp blog: Enjoy “Snow leopard kittens romping.” As I have written this blog since 2005 to give reasons for using the internet in education, nothing has been as persuasive in that cause as showcasing what is out there online to explore and learn as these kittens and their Mom do. Watch them on your mobile via YouTube and hold in your hand a mobile window for learning unimaginable before our time.

So Carnival #188 is done. Have a some happy frog days of summer, and jump over next week to MSearchGroove for Carnival of the Mobilists #189. And a note of thanks for the frogs to my great-grandfather Milo Roblee, who was a sewing machine sales rep in the 1880s. He was based in Topeka, Kansas not far from where the LSD team now designs for mobile. The frogs are from a sales flyer. When Milo was a young guy, he was an 1866 version of a twitterer — as you can see from the transcription of a diary he kept.