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This week, the Carnival is hosted by Mobile Strategy where you will find thought-provoking pieces, inside scoops, tough questions and overall interesting posts on a variety of topics. Included is an interview that our Wipster Thibaut conducted with Victor Shaburov, the CEO of Handster, a company that provides a mobile appstore and specializes in white label appstores for OEM and Operators.
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To accompany the launch of the WIPwiki appstore WIP's been going around interviewing mobile Appstore providers of the kind you generally do not hear about. In this first interview we talked to Victor Shaburov, CEO of Handster. Handster provide a mobile appstore but more importantly specialize in white label appstores for OEM and Operators.
WIP: We love the name of your company does it stand for "Napster of the handheld device world"?
VS : Yes, the name originally had some hints to this, because we were doing SDK with direct payment and peer-to-peer sharing (with possibility to make a few dollars on sharing apps). Sharing was later dropped, but the name remained.
[Neat idea to get users to swap app directly with built-in billing and an affiliate scheme, this one score high in the ideal appstore (see on the left hand corner) discussion]
Handster launched pretty recently in a world where appstores are getting more numerous by the day. Why did you decide to start a new appstore then?...
This week's Carnival is hosted by Burning the Bacon with Barrett. It includes an interesting article from Francisco Kattan "Why Droid will hurt RIM more than the iPhone" where he predicts and outlines why he believes the new Droid will fail to impact the iphone and will instead take a bite out of the blackberry. Check out other articles including; the Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition by Volker Hirsch and C. Enrique Ortiz' perspective on where the NFC industry is at and what it needs to do to start reaching its potential.
Mobilestance.com is host of the 200th Carnival of the Mobilists, the weekly roundup of the very best in mobile writings from across the blogosphere. On the mCommerce isle, check out Mobile Banking ROI tips from Bank of America from a newcomer to our ranks, David Eads of Mobile Manifesto – a mobile banking and commerce blog. On tap are also several perspectives on the Google AdMob acquisition.
We are pleased to announce the next stop on the WIPJam World Tour!
Mini WIPJam
January 6, 2010 (day before CES)
Las Vegas
at the AT&T Developer Summit
The AT&T Developer Summit offers a completely customizable experience based upon your unique needs. Exciting announcements will set you on track for the day during the morning General Session, including the Keynote by Ralph de la Vega, President and CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets.
The afternoon offers breakout sessions with two technical tracks dedicated to Software Developers, as well as Commercialization & Marketing and Emerging Devices Organization for Marketing and Business professionals.
The evening is chock full of networking, delicious dinner & drinks, and Vegas style entertainment.
If you are a techie, join the AT&T Code Camp from 10 PM – 3 AM for a fun night of coding and other surprises!
Check out the Summit website for Registration and more information
Stay tuned for more details on WIPJam activities.
WIPJam is back at Mobile World Congress. Make sure to save
Thursday, February 18, 2010 for WIPJam a Day for Developers.
It is going to be a great event once again!
In 2010, WIP is thrilled to be a Gold Partner with the GSMA Mobile World Congress. We are also a Partner with their new App Planet that is taking over Hall 7 at the 2010 Congress.
App Planet is an "event within an event" at Mobile World Congress 2010 that will present a unique opportunity to explore the many dimensions of the dynamic and critically important mobile applications market. By pulling all the key players together in one place at one time, App Planet will be new Center of the Apps Universe for the four days of Mobile World Congress.
Plans are well underway for WIPJam @ MWC so stay tuned.
Qualcomm has already joined us as a sponsor with more to come!
We are currently looking for speakers/sponsors. Please contact us if you want to participate. Jam On!
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This week the Carnival stops at the new-look Mobileslate, where host Eric Chan takes the helm. The eclectic collection of posts includes a closer look at app stores (facts, figures and payment mechanisms) and a welcome deep-dive into key mobile market figures from Chetan Sharma.
Open source foundations are interesting organisms… they tend to blossom and conference in Autumn. In the last 3 weeks Apache, Eclipse and Symbian have all held their major yearly conferences, namely 'con , summit Europe and Exhibition and Exchange. Leaving any open source follower with no option but to only taste one flavour of open source.
So… no Eclipse Summit for me this year, none of the Stammtisch fun, no occasion to hear and see Microsoft announcing support for Eclipse development in Azure, making a unprecedented move in open source and non .NET land.
No Eclipse Summit but I had to make up for it by publishing our thoughts following a discussion with Ian Skerrett, Director of Marketing at Eclipse Foundation while at CTIA Fall around Eclipse's initiatives in the mobile space.
Talking about Eclipse in mobile is rather paradoxical. You can't go to a proper mobile developer event without seeing someone flash it at a time (OK maybe at an iPhone or a Qt conference), when you see it...
Customer journeys, such as finding new music or communicating with friends, no longer take place within the confines of a single device or service. Users may combine several devices or applications to achieve their objectives, creating a new set of challenges when designing user experiences which excel in this multi-platform environment. This essay brings together 5 of the leading thinkers in digital industry to explore the concept of multi-platform mobile user experience ahead of a major new MEX conference (2nd/3rd December 2009, London) on this same theme.
By Marek Pawlowski (PMN), Thibaut Rouffineau (Wireless Industry Partnership), Lisa Whelan (SocializeMobilize.com), Andreas Constantinou (VisionMobile) and Matt Lewis (ARCChart).
Marek Pawlowski, Editorial Director at PMN and founder of the MEX Conference, begins by examining the role of the mobile phone in a future of multi-platform experiences:
There is an old cliche rolled out time and again at mobile industry conferences: "You...
This week the Carnival comes from MSearchGroove. This collection of posts provides us welcome access to keys lists and industry resources as well as the inside track on what makes one social network such a phenomenal success. The article from Mobile Mandala is quite eye-opening. Mark walks us through some surprising numbers from the source and wakes us up to the wealth of opportunities around giving people who don't own smartphones a good user experience.
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