http://www.nellymoser.com/blog John Puterbaugh, Founder & Chief Executive Officer Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:38:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My most recent post "App Wars" has been selected for inclusion in the Carnival of the Mobilists #212. Terence Eden has selected a nice range of posts coming out of Mobile World Congress. http://www.nellymoser.com/blog/?p=33 The question of apps vs the mobile web is still often poised. This contraposition blurs much more important distinctions that will determine the future of mobile content, applications and the mobile web itself.The ability to use web technologies to create mobile apps has led to a much broader base of ... http://www.nellymoser.com/blog/?p=32 Smartphone reduxThis post serves to summarize the current state of the smartphone market.Definitional vaguenessMost definitions of smartphones are ostensive and, as such, involve pointing out examples of this or that phone being a "smartphone." However, there are some common themes used in defining the word smartphone: Provides data access, namely Internet and ... http://www.nellymoser.com/blog/?p=31 In December of 2007, I made the following predictions about mobile content and services for 2008. I thought reviewing them would keep me honest while finalizing my 2009 predictions. Golden Age Of Mobile Apps With the success of Google’s mobile applications (e.g., Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube) and Yahoo! Go, content providers and ... http://www.nellymoser.com/blog/?p=30 Ofir Leitner, this weeks Carnival host, has selected a nice mixture of content: App Stores, Mobile Applications (Web 2.0, Browsers-Based ), Application Environments and User Experience and Design. Check out Carnival of Mobilists #142 at Next Generation of Mobile Content. http://www.nellymoser.com/blog/?p=29 Given recent announcements such as T-Mobile’s abandoning of their deck as well as T-Mobile’s much anticipated launch of the HTC Dream running Google’s Android (i.e., the elusive gPhone now called T-Mobile G1), the idea of open devices, networks and markets continues to capture the media’s imagination.Yet, it is the closed ... http://www.nellymoser.com/blog/?p=28 Carnival of the Mobilists #120 is now up at Skydeck. - a great collection of writing as usual. http://www.nellymoser.com/blog/?p=27 Mobile Widgets On the web, widgets have helped transform the way people create and distribute applications and services. Not only have widgets helped democratize the creation of web applications (i.e., accelerated the ability for end-users as well as software developers and engineers to create web applications), they have been instrumental in ... http://www.nellymoser.com/blog/?p=26 Carnival of the Mobilists 118 is now up at Mobile Point View by Paul Ruppert. - a great collection of writing as usual. http://www.nellymoser.com/blog/?p=25 I propose using the distinction between “place” and “location” as a useful framework for making comparisons between Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0 in general, and location and locale, in particular. During a roundtable (”Web 2.0 Hits the Handset”) this week hosted by Airwide and Mobile Messaging 2.0, Tim Solt (from ... http://www.nellymoser.com/blog/?p=24