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New host Goeff Ballinger brings us Carnival #179 at his Reflections on Things Mobile blog, highlighting there from his native Scotland the week’s best in mobile blogging.
My favorite highlight is his post of the week, penned by Richard Marshall who compares today’s mobile app landscape to the gold rush and railroad days of early America. Go have a look!
Well, that was quick. Yesterday, Google announced it’s beta program for the Google Adsense for Mobile Applications.
Developers can apply for the beta program here. Before you rush over to apply, you should know that developers must agree to the following:
Participate for at least 3 months
At least 100k pageviews per day
Apps must be free
iPhone or Android apps only
Must be ready to implement now, and be live within 4 weeks
For marketers looking to get their ads on these mobile apps, it looks like they are already placing Adsense ads that are targeted to high-end mobile devices. According to Google, they will also open this specific program up to marketers as well.
Find out more in this testimonial video from Urbanspoon:
So what do you think of ads on these free apps? As a developer, are you excited about a new revenue opportunity? Or are you disappointed that your favorite free mobile apps will now have banner ads taking up precious real estate on your phone?
Our free text message tool has been sending text messages all over the US and India for quite a while now. It’s always nice to get feedback from people that show how much they appreciate something you built. Here are the latest messages we received just last month.
Dolores from Connecticut wrote:
“I just used your service a 2nd time. Thank you!! I had been having difficulty texting Nextel from their site (and Verizon, my carrier) — can only get texts through with your site. Thanks so much!! AGAIN!!”
Kate from Seattle wrote:
“This service has been more than helpful during the recent loss of my phone. I could conact home to tell my mom I was alive and reach co-workers and friends as needed. Thank, I am very impressed and will rcommend to my friends.”
Catherine from Australia wrote:
“Please make your service available to Australia, with providers such as Optus, Virgin, and 3! Thankyou !!”
And this one just came in today:
Patricia wrote:
“We have a loved one in the Digicel network. Do you think you might be covering that soon? It’s all of the Carribean area.”
Looks like we have more work to do.
We do get negative, yet very entertaining emails from time to time as well, and we’ll save those for another post. Thank you Delores, Kate, Catherine, Patricia, and everyone else that has provided feedback on our free text message tool.
If you have not tried it yet, go send a text message for free right now, then let us know what you think. Happy texting!
Volker on Mobile hosts Carnival #178 where Volker Hirsch rolls out in-depth reviews by the planet’s best mobile bloggers, mostly this week about smarter phones.
In case you have not heard, the Pre, the latest smartphone from the folks at Palm, will be available on the Sprint network beginning tomorrow, June 6.
The Pre has received extremelypositivereviews, even in a world where most cannot compete against the ubiquitous iPhone. One big reason is it’s Linux-based webOS, which provides a powerful set of features that even the folks in Cupertino would be impressed with.
If you’re one of the lucky few Sprint customers that are getting your Palm Pre hardware a day early, let us know your first impressions!
If you live across the pond from the States and have not heard about the Mobile 2.0 event on June 18-19 in Barcelona, there are tickets still available.
The event includes a mobile Developer’s Day on June 18, and the conference event on June 19. There’s also a Demo Launch Pad that highlights a select group of mobile-related start-ups that will be presenting. Both days promise to bring the latest developments in mobile technology, and they have corralled an impressive line-up of speakers.
No conference is complete without a sponsored party, and this year TechCrunch is hosting the TechCrunch Mobile 2.0 party on the 19th.
Long-time Carnivaler Vero hosts this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists #176 at Taptu. Vero relishes positive vibes and great hope: “This Carnival seems to breathe that same air of growth and progress in bringing people together through mobile technology.”
The folks at foofactory have provided a solid Facebook app for the Android platform. The fooBook app uses the Facebook API to provide most of the features that a mobile user would be looking for.
Here are the features as described by foofactory:
View your friends status messages
Set your status message
See comments your friends made about your status
See comments on the status messages of your friends
Add comments to your friends status messages
View your friends updated profile picture
Works in the background
Sound and vibrate notifications
Change polling period
This app is available for $2.00, and there is also a fooBook-lite version that you can try for free. Check it out and let us know what you think!
Have you ever been away from your computer and needed to pick up some solar panels asap? Me neither.
Apparently someone thought there was a need, and created a mobile version of their website, which allows users to browse solar panels, wind generators, backup power systems, and other energy-related products. While users are not able to purchase through the site, there is a click-to-call link in the header of the mobile website.
The variety of mobile websites never ceases to amaze me.
Chinese online video firm Youku just launched a beta version of it’s mobile video site on Sunday. Coinciding with World Telecommunication Day 2009, the launch is occurring just as demand for online and mobile video shows signs of surging, and is taking advantage of China’s recent 3g network rollout.
Here’s what the firm had to say in a recent press release:
With the new mobile video portal, Youku formally enters the domain of (the) wireless Internet. On the front page of 3g.youku.com , users will find editors’ recommendations for the latest long-form, professionally-produced content as well as shorter user-generated video. The front page will also offer easy navigation to five video channels, including current topics, user-generated content, music, sports, and humor. The mobile portal’s browsing and watching experiences have been optimized for China’s mobile phone users.
The timing could not be better, so we’ll see what’s in store for Youku’s mobile video efforts.
In case you have not heard, the Pre, the latest smartphone from the folks at Palm, will be available on the Sprint network beginning tomorrow, June 6.
If you live across the pond from the States and have not heard about the Mobile 2.0 event on June 18-19 in Barcelona, there are 
The folks at foofactory have provided a solid Facebook app for the Android platform. The fooBook app uses the Facebook API to provide most of the features that a mobile user would be looking for.