{"id":1318,"date":"2012-01-10T14:50:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T13:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2012-04-25T14:31:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:31:59","slug":"carnival-of-the-mobilists-256","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/10\/carnival-of-the-mobilists-256\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnival of the Mobilists # 256"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new year, a new carnival (which will returned to weekly editions now, too). This week&#8217;s edition is hosted by Mark Bridges over at <a href=\"http:\/\/thefonecast.com\">thefonecast.com<\/a>, and he includes posts, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lots of reminiscing on the past year (on mobile marketing, the greater scope of the mobile landscape and &#8211; albeit in Spanish &#8211; a reminder of a joke from all the way back in 2004 when someone suggested in April Fools&#8217; fashion that Apple &#8211; hold your breath &#8211; might launch a phone bypassing traditional network operators).<\/li>\n<li>Of course some predictions (general ones as well as a look on where mobile development specifically might go) and Tomi Ahonen&#8217;s latest on why all roads lead to Mobile (as in tech, not as in Alabama).<\/li>\n<li>A couple of posts on what might or might not happen to WebOS following HP&#8217;s open-sourcing announcement (comparisons to Symbian&#8217;s fate included).<\/li>\n<li>More on dying platforms with a piece on mobile flash.<\/li>\n<li>Ad performance benchmarking (Admob vs mobfox).<\/li>\n<li>A call to prepare for the (presumed) ascent of the Kindle Fire.<\/li>\n<li>And, finally, a nod to my two posts on <a href=\"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/angry-birds-fly-ever-higher\/\">Angry Birds<\/a> and my take on the dubious assertion that &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/02\/so-social-lost-its-sizzle-huh\/\">social lost its sizzle<\/a>&#8220;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thefonecast.com\/Opinion\/tabid\/87\/EntryId\/4978\/Carnival-of-the-Mobilists-256.aspx\">The carnival is here<\/a>! Go, read it! \ud83d\ude42 And if you&#8217;re a blogger wanting to participate, head over to the Carnival&#8217;s revamped <a href=\"http:\/\/mobili.st\">homepage<\/a> where you will find everything you need to know about submitting entries and even hosting one on your own blog if you are so inclined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new year, a new carnival (which will returned to weekly editions now, too). This week&#8217;s edition is hosted by Mark Bridges over at thefonecast.com, and he includes posts, such as: Lots of reminiscing on the past year (on mobile marketing, the greater scope of the mobile landscape and &#8211; albeit in Spanish &#8211; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1201],"tags":[27,996,44,106,1167,1160,1166,393,406,623,651,715,726],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carnival-2","tag-admob","tag-ajit-jaokar","tag-amazon","tag-carnival-of-the-mobilists","tag-caroline-lewko","tag-chetan-sharma","tag-kindle","tag-mobile-advertising","tag-mobile-marketing","tag-symbian","tag-tomi-ahonen","tag-webos","tag-wip-jam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-lg","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}