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Host Improbulus at A Consuming Experience guides us through this week's works by top mobile bloggers, with features about handsets, learning and lucre. Frequent WIPJam participant and discussion leader, Franciso Kattan, has 7 recommendations for developers on How to Merchandise Your App 2 Years Ai (after the iPhone), following CTIA, summarising key lessons for developers wanting to go mobile.
-----Following plenty of action at CTIA, Carnival #195 is at Always On Real-Time Access AORTA, where host Chetan Sharma describes the past week's mobile blogging as an eclectic mix of viewpoints. Check out Andrew Grill of London Calling's post where he delves into the world of mobile and social networking. He looks at taking social media mobile and how the growth in social networks will drive mobile internet usage.
-----This week Tsahi Levent-Levi of Radivision VoIP Survivor hosts from Israel. He sums up Carnival #194 saying the best thing about it was the variety, of both content and medium, with regular posts, guest posts, interviews, presentation a round up and even a podcast. It also includes a post from WIPJam on the Ideal Apps Store and a blog for the WIPJam taking place on October 8 at CTIA!
----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Touchwiz URL: http://www.samsungtouchwiz.nl EMAIL: touchwizard@email.com IP: 24.132.75.31 DATE: 10/16/2009 05:38:56 AMIs the idea behind these postst that each time a blogger comments on one of his favorite links? Even though I am not too familiar with the developer scene I did see some well known names like Qualcomm which provided the processort for among other the Samsung Omnia? However the link that is about Blacberry and the bakery does not seem to work.
-----We are pleased to bring you an interview with Erik Starck, Community Manager, Developer World, Sony Ericsson. Sony Ericsson is a Developer's Choice sponsor at WIPJam @ CTIA taking place on October 8th in San Diego.
1. What's the biggest change you've seen in the industry as a whole?
Definitely the move over to open source platforms. That changes the logic behind innovation creation. As it drives the cost of the platforms down it moves the resources of the entire industry over to applications and services.
2. What are the biggest changes you've seen in mobile development specifically?
Well, as a consequence of the above application developers are in a better spot than ever. The playing field has been leveled between developers, carriers and device manufacturers. It's a better time than ever to be a mobile developer.
3. It's pretty tough for small mobile development companies to survive on just one device and/or one market. What's your advice to our mobile developers for growing a...
This week, Volker on Mobile hosts Carnival #193. Volker Hirsch writes, "We have an abundance of variety, showing how incredibly diverse this "little" niche has already become." Blogs include: general market overviews, novel handsets, subscription services, mobile learning, how smartphones will look and a WIPJam interview with Lauren Thorpe, the Sr Director, Developer Relations at Qualcomm. Qualcomm is a Developer's Choice sponsor of WIPJam @ CTIA, a Day for Developers, taking place on October 8th in San Diego.
Leading up to our WIPJam Session on October 8 @ CTIA in San Diego, we have asked Lauren Thorpe, Senior Director, Developer Relations, Qualcomm Incorporated, a series of questions regarding the mobile industry. Lauren is part of the first WIPJam UnPanel taking place @ 11:15 am.
You're a veteran in the mobile industry having been with MForma, Helio, THQ and now Qualcomm. What's the biggest change you've seen in the industry as a whole?
Finally people are looking at and "touching" their devices rather than just holding them up to their ear. For years I would travel around and observe people while they waited in airports and train stations, desperately trying to find someone who was a potential customer; someone who was playing a game or using an application on their device (other than email, of course). In the early days, while trying to pull marketing materials together there weren't even any stock photos of people doing things other than talking on a mobile phone. The biggest...
At this stage if you have missed OSIM / WIPJam… there is no consolation other than reading the #osim tweets or consulting some of the great summaries written on the subject, and to quote just a few see the links at the bottom of this post, with hopefully more links from you soon…
A lot of OSIM summaries but no WIPJam summary so far which this post sets to correct… with a quick overview of the 2 unpanels.
This should be followed by a short series of posting summarizing the various discussion groups…
Open services architectures
Open Source is all about community and developers… and sometimes developer communities (*)… And thus they should be a key part of Open Source in Mobile ! That's why we partnered with Informa to bring WIPJam to OSIM, invite developers to participate for free, and have a bit of collaborative thinking and exchange during the day!
Our first unpanel focussed on openness and all its variants… The session covered a lot…
We've asked our speakers and sponsors to provide some blog fodder as a lead up to our WIPJam Session on October 8 @ CTIA in San Diego!
The following is brought to you by Mitch Oliver, vice president of ecosystem development for Qualcomm.
Although the mobile applications market has been evolving since 2001, the year Qualcomm launched one of the first app stores with BREW, the pace of innovation has picked up significantly over the past two years. Following the launch of the iPhone 3G in 2008, with which Apple became the poster-child for the modern day "App Store", there has been a proliferation of market channels for mobile apps.
This competition for attention appears to be paying dividends for developers. Industry efforts to improve the quality of tools, lower the cost of testing and certification, speed time to market, and (most importantly) promote these solutions to consumers have resulted in an explosion of applications. While a catalog of several hundred applications used to...
Host Jamie Wells at mobilestance.com tells us it is typical with most summertime carnivals for the heat to bring out the passion – and Carnival #187 does not disappoint. Steve Smith of min online gets The Post of the Week for his post Top Five iPhone Revenue Ideas Magazines Should Steal.
-----Carnival #186 at allaboutiPhone.net is a speed write from host Matt Radford that deftly touches important bases so you can jump to the week's best mobile blogging. Check out Chetan Sharma's latest US Wireless Data Market Update – Q2 2009. It's crammed full of interesting analysis including the following: The App vs. Mobile Web discussion reached a surprisingly new crescendo. The evolution is pretty clear – for the applications that don't require significant UI resources, it will be better to develop in for the browser, for intensive games, the native platform will be ahead of the browser advances. The location API access on the iPhone browser is breakthrough to have developers start thinking about the webapps.
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