Yesterday evening’s Mobile Monday included talks by AdMob, Blyk, Nokia (about Nokia Ad Business derived from Enpocket), Rummble and Rapid Mobile. It was a great snapshot of the current state of mobile advertising, the issues, the current challenges and the opportunities.
Here are the things I took away…
On Admob…

Most solutions currently revolve around web or sms/mms […]

EMCC have some interesting things on their web site, especially if you are considering Symbian development.
The Technical articles page includes introductory articles on Mobile JSRs, Symbian Signed, IMS, Wi-Fi, VoIP, UIQ v.3, Exchange ActiveSync, Push-To-Talk, Push Email, S60 v3 and Symbian OS v9.
The Developer Zone has full example source code from the book Developing Series 60 Applications […]

An issue I have never resolved is whether (or when) it’s best to use the native UI or create your own custom UI from basic drawing primitives. What do I mean? Here are some examples…
Here are three styles of menu taken from ProfiMail, the S60 native email application (in the middle) and Gmail (Java). ProfiMail […]

If you are into writing enterprise applications for Nokia S60 you will be probably concerned about security of the Internet connection. Your first thoughts might be how to install and set up an IPSec configuration. However, there’s a new innovative solution called SSHForwarding…
"SSHForwarding is an application for Symbian mobile devices (s60v3) which can make a […]

It’s often the case that your original idea (or even someone else’s idea!) can be leveraged to do far more than was originally envisaged.
Take Styky who contacted me last week. It’s essentially a service that synchronises contacts and photos with a server. Remote phonebook backup isn’t a new idea. However, Styky have leveraged this idea to allow […]

As with most people in mobile, I read the news on the Open Handset Alliance and Android with a great deal of interest.
I see the Open Handset Alliance as a reaction to Google having had difficulty partnering and working with network operators. Now their strategy is to offer something they think network operators will need and […]

This weekend, I came across some videos from MobileCampLondon. While all the sessions aren’t covered, there’s more than enough brain food if you are interested in mobile.
I found Tom Hughes-Croucher’s session on ‘State, and Why Syncing is Dumb’ particularly interesting. It introduces some interesting possibilities for passing contextual information between platforms… even if the resulting session discussion didn’t […]