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Carnival of the Mobilists #231 Comes To WIP

Posted by Carlo on 19 July 2010 - 0 Comments Categories : News • Carnival of the Mobilists •

It's time for another installment of the Carnival of the Mobilists, this time hosted right here on the WIP blog. A big thanks to all the mobilists who sent in their posts this week, and a big welcome to everybody visiting our site for the first time. After you're done checking out the week's best blogging about mobile, be sure to take a look at our Events Wiki, a comprehensive listing of mobile events and conferences, as well as our App Store Wiki, the most complete listing of mobile app stores -- currently tracking 84 -- on the web.

But let's get on with the Carnival!

Windows Phone 7, the latest work from Microsoft, was a popular topic this week, with both Terence Eden and Tam Hanna taking it on. Terence has a solid list of pros and cons about the new OS, with quite a few problems but a lot he likes about it as well, while Tam features an interview with a Microsoft evangelist for the corporate line on what to expect from WP7. Another emerging technology that's been getting a lot of hype lately is HTML5, but Carl Martin at Mobsessed says it will be a while before it's ready for prime time (or the mass market) on mobile.

Elsewhere:

Peggy Anne Salz rounds up the Meffy Awards at MsearchGroove with a post and a podcast
TheFonecast.com says that like BlackBerry Messenger, Facebook can benefit from anonymity
Eric Chan at MobileSlate takes an interesting look at ShanZhaiJi, or Chinese fake mobile phones
Little Springs Design's Steven Hoober delivers an overview of information architecture and its role in design
Tomi Ahonen talks back to AT&T CTO John Donovan with one of his classic 8,433-word rants
Long-time mobilist Rudy de Waele checks in with a review of Habitar magazine, which takes a look at the changing urban landscape
And for our own contribution here at WIP, I'm going to reach back a couple of weeks and point to my colleague Thibaut's results from his latest Android app store competition, which has some interesting insights into how Android app stores work for developers.