A couple of weeks ago Charlie Schick posted about the lack of mobile-focused bloggers in the Web 2.0 Workgroup. Charlie wrote:
"...from the list, I, of course, did not see a person focusing on mobility. I'm not surprised. Mobile might not need a special focus, but it sure should be part of the discussion."
I replied in the comments that we'd love to have a mobile-focused blogger in the mix. In emails following we discussed who is blogging about the intersection of mobile and Web 2.0. Charlie himself blogs occasionally on this subject and he also pointed to Debi Jones' The Carnival of the Mobilists blog (great name!). The mobile sites I already know about are Howard Rheingold's SmartMobs and Russell Beattie's blog. I've also got Scott Rafer's Mobile Chair and Mobile Opportunity by Michael Mace (ex-Apple honcho) plugged into my Rojo.
What other mobile blogs do people recommend? As I wrote recently on ZDNet, I think mobile is the next 'revolution' cab off the ranks in the Web industry. There's no reason why we shouldn't be talking more now about how 2.0 technologies and mobile are intersecting - for example location and presence services that utilize things like RSS and social networking. What's being built now in mobile that we in Web 2.0-land should be talking about more? Who's blogging about it? Who's building it?
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Paul Baron covers mobile and location-based mobile games quite extensively.
http://www.in-duce.net/archives/cat_mobility.php
http://www.in-duce.net/archives/locationbased_mobile_phone_games.php#more
Posted by: Gen Kanai | December 5, 2005 11:50 PM
Some more info about this topic in a new tool we are developing:
http://www.lastinfoo.com/web20-mobile.phtml
Posted by: Luis | December 6, 2005 2:21 AM
Maybe very few people access blogs through their mobile devices -- everything looks so cramped because of the size. But with improvements in display technology and with the advent of friendlier appliances, I'm sure mobile based computing and content generation is the future.
Posted by: Amrit | December 6, 2005 2:23 AM
This is a good one.
http://mobile.kaywa.com/
Posted by: Rex Chung | December 6, 2005 6:47 PM
Mobhappy is my favorite: http://www.mobhappy.com
The authors are from Britain, but visit the U.S. often and have a great handle on the differences of mobile deployment. They also cover mobile marketing often as well as the technology.
Posted by: Graham | December 8, 2005 3:49 AM
I work for Intercasting Corp. and we have a mobile location based media application live on Verizon's portal and soon to launch on another tier 1 carrier in the US followed by others early 2006. The application called Rabble allows bi-directional sync with Blogger, Live Journal and Travel Pod posts with posts (including photos and text) created on the phone using Rabble. So posts that you create on one of these web-based blogging platforms will automatically display on your Rabble blog and vice-a-versa. We use RSS & Atom and users can subscribe to each other's posts, connect as fans, trackback to other mobile initiated posts and even send messages to one another around the content they create. We're currently working on v2.0 of Rabble which will dramatically improve the experience, media production and social options offered to users. So, to answer your question: "What the Web 2.0 Workgroup should be watching in mobile?", Rabble is certainly one. Of course, I'd be happy to discuss this with you and/or others more fully any time.
Posted by: mobilejones | December 9, 2005 7:39 PM
A new blog on the fusion of web 2.0 and mobile tech:
Web 2.5 : Always-On-You Web 2.0 Tools (see link below)
Posted by: Liam | December 13, 2005 1:19 PM