Carnival of the Mobilists # 118 is here!

This week's 118th edition of Carnival of the Mobilists is dealt to Mobile Point View, on the heels of CTIA from Las Vegas. I'm pleased to host this week's gathering of all those--including yours truly--emerging from the haze of a week of playing, partying, partaking, praying for, and prestidigitating mobile deals at CTIA in Las Vegas.

The mobile world divinied inspiration while surviving the neon campfire of the Vegas strip with elements of rankings, checking, betting, calling, folding, flirting, raising, and bluffing all while still on the show floor. So follow the dealer playas,  Live from Vegas baby, it's COM #118!

This was my all in bet to have the best hand of CTIA coverage in the mobile world, and my wager has payed off with no fixed limit raises from those contributors who attended CTIA and those who didn't. Thanks to all who contribute to CoM 118 here at Mobilepointview.

Dealer opens with the door card dealt to Jamie Wells at Mobilestance.com, which presents the CITA winners of "The Swaggies" - their clever homage to those unimportant conference freebies and neglected art form of awareness artistry, which inevitably decorates corporate cubicles and children's bedrooms spanning the globe.  [BTW, my best swag scores at CTIA: an iPod nano from Telcordia and DVD boxed set of Ocean's 11,12, & 13 from Nokia. Mucho gracias!]   Great idea Jamie, score some sponsors and make this a regular event for all the major conferences...Jamie, you recieve my recognition as the The Ace of Diamonds submission for this week's CoM for the most innovative take on the common place at a cellular convention.

Chetan Sharma of Always on Real Time Access AORTA shows a gut shot straight with his "CTIA Roundup" covering Mobile's implied odds against any downturn in the economy and covering practically every facet of the industry at CTIA. And, if you haven't read it, join the crowd and get Chetan's new book, "Mobile Advertising: Supercharge Your Brand in the Exploding Wireless Market." Even for insider readers it is clearly the best overview and most current coverage of the mobile advertising opportunity.

The dealer's choice is at Mobile Messaging 2.0 where there's video from Airwide Solution's media event covering Mobile Advertising. Your's truly, Paul Ruppert leads a round table discussion on mobile social networking with additional contributions from Tuillio Syragusa of M3Mob, Simeon Coney of Adaptive Mobile and John Puterbaugh of Nellymoser.

Nellymoser's same John Puterbaugh flips the flop card at Mobile 2.0 and Emerging Mobile Media  Services in his "Between a place and some location", where he provides a great analysis of what constitutes same same within a mobile context--plus he graciously mentioned me in his post--Tip of the hat thanks, John.

GoMo News submits a video interview of Evryx Technologies VP of Marketing Dan Dato from GoMo's CTIA News on Wheels. Evryx' SnapNow solution was a finalist in the CTIA Emerging Technology competition--it enables your mobile phone's camera to link to the mobile internet via a click of the shutter. I saw the solution in practice: A) it works  B) pretty kewl.

With the river card, in "SMS Globalization & Growth",  (moi) Paul Ruppert interviews Sybase 365 CEO Marty Beard here at Mobile Point View. In this podcast conversation Marty covers the importance of Sybase 365 in the mobile messaging value chain, including routing over 10 billion SMS per month through the Sybase365 network, Sybase365's foray into mobile banking and commerce, plus Sybase365's innovation R&D in text messaging.

From off the casino floor, come the non-CTIA related posts, including Mike Mace at Mobile Opportunity, who covers research out takes from Rubicon's survey of iPhone users like the date bait factor and where people carry the iPhone in "Some other things you didn't know about the iPhone."

Tomi Ahonen from the Communities Dominate Blog, in Mobile advertising evolving: User-distributed ads, User-created ads, User-priced ads, addresses the obstacles, realities and opportunities of user generated, created and priced mobile advertising.

Vero Pepperrell, Community Gal at Taptology, provides "20 Great Resources for Designers & Developers of Websites", providing a laundry list of valuable touch points for developers seeking both the science and the art behind mobile website design.

Andrew Grill of the eponymic Andrewgrill.com in "Location Based Services Applications Round up & Review", throws a scare card in his review of location based social network applications and examines location enabled mobile applications appearing this year - could this be the long awaited start of mainstream location based services?

Barbara Ballard of Little Springs Design, specializes in the tell (user behavior in poker or mobile) with The Future of Content Adaptation regarding mobile sites. Long tail, money and the semantic web all have parts to play in her hand, so check out her contribution to the pot. 

C. Enrique Ortiz raising the eponymic sites to #2, cenriqueortiz.com, in "Phone Program helps break Communication Barriers"--CEO relays the value and power of Edioma's Edigo software, a telephone translator service which targets the needs of Spanish speakers who require instant translator services, available through their mobiles. 

Ajit Jaokar writes how "Personalization is not a substitute for critical Mass" at Opengardensblog. Ajit takes up the contrarian view against the buzz of pesonalization in mobile versus the ease of monitization power in critical mass. Spot on Ajit.

Dennis Bournique of Wapreview.com in "WIND Italy - Great Deal for Travelers" breaks down his experience as a pre-paid SIM user on WIND during his trip to Italy last week (D, sounds like you fell into the right portal at the Venetian in Vegas)

Ray at Money Blue Book, under the category of frugal tech, covers how you can shave your cell phone costs in "Employee & Student Discounts for your Cell Phone Service."  After a week of opulent illusion in Las Vegas, we all need to be a little frugal with our airtime. And at the wire, Alfie Dennen at Alfie's Blog covers 118118's Ask Anything Service posited against Textperts in the UK.

Don't forget to leave a Toke (tip) in the form of a subscription or a link for the dealer as you depart the gaming area.

And...seems like the group Zanex is wearing off, so let's call this a wrap from CTIA in Las Vegas & CoM #118. Thanks for visiting MobilePointView. Debi Jones at Mobilejones.com hosts next week's CoM #119. Send your submissions for next week's CoM to: mobilists at gmail dot com.

Comments

[Dean Collins]

What no comments about Mobile Analytics or www.Amethon.com and their mobile web content specific analytics application?

:)

Cheers,
Dean