I am launching this site both for fun and for interest… after working in the mobile technology space for the last three years I don’t want to lose some of the knowledge that I picked up along the way. It is actually quite interesting that my view of the mobile world grew exponentially since I left one of the large Smartphone manufacturers and began to do independent research both for personal reasons and for clients. There are a lot of brilliant writers/designers/thinkers/commentators out there that I was not exposed to until recently and which I will write about as the days go by and time allows. There is even another Jose writing about mobility … 
Some of the articles that I am thinking of writing over the next few weeks (or having others pitch in and write as well) are the following:
- Defining Mobile 2.0 – There is a lot of excellent material out there on Mobile 2.0 so I am not attempting to rewrite what is already out there. Hopefully by putting together a compilation of what has already been written I myself can get my head around the concepts and in turn disseminate them.
- Value vs. Experience – As users we are in search of both value and experience around the use of mobile technologies. We need positive returns to our investments (these go far beyond money) to consider ourselves winners and we seek positive experiences to keep us engaged and coming back for more. This topic has implications both on the individual but should also impact the buying decisions and mobile strategies of businesses.
- Has the iPhone changed the mobile landscape? – Whether we want to admit it or not the iPhone has changed the mobile landscape. It has allowed everyone to bring into the present many dreams and visions previously reserved for a mobile future (by everyone I mean device manufacturers, telecoms, small businesses, enterprises, IT managers and individual end users) to think (dare I say dream). I am saying this not as an Apple junkie but as a regular mobile observer.
- Why its the right time for business to consumer mobile applications? – Almost like a perfect storm, there has been an incredible convergence of factors that make this prime time to build and deploy business to consumer mobile applications. I sure hope that by the time I sit down to write this specific post the time will not have passed…
- Mobility and Trust: Increasing Organizational Value – The study of trust and its relationship to the creation of prosperity in societies has intrigued thinkers for quite a long time. Some of these same principles apply to organizations and when these are institutionalized and become part of the corporate culture everyone wins. Mobile workers will especially benefit from a high trust organization.
- Monitoring Your Mobile Workers: How Much Is Too Much? – This can be a sensitive topic but I find it an interesting one (hopefully others will too). There are different schools of thought on managing, monitoring and following up on workers in general … and mobile workers are even more challenging.
- Reducing Support Costs by Profiling Mobile Users – This one should almost be a no brainer. However as I have done research on this topic in the past I have found little material publicly available, so if we can further the conversation here and help others by drafting something if a strawman then I think we will have provided something.
I can think of even more topics but hate to list them all here and not come through for you at the end… especially since you are undefined and I am not even sure if you will every show up. If you happen to read this and have comments and opinions and what to write or what not to write please let me know below. I would like to hear what you have to say and what you think might be missing out there.
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