Welcome to the 171st version of the Carnival of the Mobilists, hosted by The Catalyst Code.
With competition in the Smartphone space getting so fierce, so fast, Mobile Stance thought it would be a good idea to take a step back and take a hard look as to whether App World has real legs or not, […]

I had the opportunity a month or so ago to moderate a CTIA panel of really neat people who wanted to talk about mobile social networking. Panelists ranged from execs from online gaming companies to those who operate online walled gardens (around dating and gaming and just general networking) to a company that aggregates […]

Really interesting article in yesterday’s NYT Magazine on the value (or lack thereof) of reader-posted comments to news websites. The author makes her case that reader generated comments are nothing more than the rehashed rants of the fringe who don’t really read the post but instead use the comments section as a forum to posit […]

Last week, Connor Mulcahey, 13, downloaded Bump onto his iPhone. Bump let’s you trade contact info and other stuff like photos on your iPhone to a nearby iPhone. Using an internet connection you select what you want to share with your chum and then you bump your phones together or wave them nearby. […]

I don’t dispute that some card issuers engage in bad behavior and frankly there have been times when I’ve been furious. But there is a lot of market discipline for this; if you threaten to switch cards the issuers back off. Proponents of legislation point to anecdotes of bad behavior. There is, however, no […]

Credit card issuers can be pretty annoying. They stuff our mailboxes with credit card solicitations, make us endure endless commercials about taking their cards, and seem to nickel and dime us with fees at every turn. The media continually reminds us of poor slobs who are up to their eyeballs in debt because they’ve maxxed […]

When I heard that the Moldavian kids had organized a veritable revolution through twittering each other I thought that I should recant my views that twittering would last about as long as the hula hoop. But then I saw that Ashton Kutcher has become king of the twitters. Could Twitter have a better advertisement than […]

Back in 1893, magazines earned most of their profits from subscriptions or newsstand sales and they didn’t carry much advertising. Then a clever magazine mogul by the name of Charles McClure slashed his subscription fees, exploded his readership, and made a fortune from selling advertising. Others soon followed suit and the modern era of advertising-supported […]