A veritable feast of mobile links, spat onto your screens in an attempt to reach some sort of GTD nirvana within NetNewsWire:

1. Customisation and personalisation in mobile;
2. The Economist on how mobile is changing the landscape of politics and enabling collective organisation;
3. Don't shrink designs to small screens! I ended at last weeks MoMo with a plea for better user experiences, but I feel increasingly that this is a pretty bland thing to be saying nowadays;
4. "People are the mobile internet's killer app": One World. No Borders. 2.5 Billion Connected Citizens;
5. A global MVNO, WorldSIM, is launching: targeting roamers;
6. Mobile 2.0 happened. Kudos to Mike for writing up the event in a brutally honest fashion. Mind you, no-one's yet topped Robert's approach to event sponsors IMHO;
7. Externalising image resources in J2ME - this is very handy when you want to update the UI for your MIDlet over the air, we've done it on a few projects now;
8. Blyk, an ad-funded MVNO. Russell, who knows a thing or two about mobile advertising, has posted some thoughts. Personally I doubt it's sustainable if it's based on the kind of primitive ad models we've seen online so far: response rates, and therefore revenue, have a tendency to drop. And the first dot-com boom inoculated me against the "they're rich clever guys so they must be right" line of thinking. Still Eric Schmidt of Google thinks this is a goer...
9. Another simple phone from Motorola;
10. More gorgeous handset design from KDDI;
11. Local apps with web content, an examination of the new GMail app (which I've not successfully used yet);
12. 3 sees a boom in instant messaging - I'm really interested to learn more about this after my conversations with operator folks indicating this might be problematic;
13. O2 seem to be cautiously optimistic about I-mode;

Comments

[Mike Rowehl]

I liked Dave Harper's post as well, good stuff. Whats Robert's approach to event sponsors? We're looking for examples to use if we go for another event.

[Tom Hume]

I guess I should let Robert comment on his unique approach... but last time I went to an event he compered and the sponsors insisting on talking noisily through presentations he was conducting, he led the audience in a fairly obscene chant aimed at them :)

[Mike Rowehl]

Hehe, very cool. I'll have to keep an eye on Robert's blog.

[Anders Borg]

Regarding 12: What's interesting with Mobile IM is how many in the industry have doubted its potential, even recently. Operators still haven't embraced it broadly due to fear of revenue loss, but with 3's endorsement that's about to change.