Mobile Groove

At M-Pulse we make the transition to an all-app show, using our platform to bring our growing audience of mobile app developers and brands the information and insights essential to produce and promote engaging and effective applications. We kick off with a look at design and why it comes first — full stop — and connect with Arturo Toldeo, Senior User Experience Designer in the Windows Phone Design Studio in Redmond.

His advice to everyone, everywhere in mobile to put the experience (and the pers…

Bringing you the best of mobile blogging from around the Web, the Carnival of the Mobilists (COM) comes with a selection of the posts over the last two weeks that set the bar. We will be back to our weekly schedule next week (April 2nd) when the COM is hosted by our esteemed colleagues over at Tego Interactive.

Meantime, there are still openings for bloggers to step up and host the COM. I encourage everyone to check out the schedule here, and let me know which dates you would like to step up to the helm.

I might …

Give your customers what they want? It’s a tall order on mobile, where marketers must navigate an increasingly fragmented landscape and ensure they are supporting all the different ways their customers consume Web services. Ronan Cremin cuts through some of the myths about our mobile device usage and behavior to reveal what we really need to know about mobile.

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Doing business on the Internet used to be so simple. If you knew for sure that your desktop website was optimized for access across all browsers, then your job was done. That was then. Now, the explosion of Internet-capable and connected devices has complicated matters. As more customers access your site from mobile devices, you have to do more to deliver a good user experience. To deliver content your customers can access and enjoy on their mobile devices you need to know what those devices are, what capabilities and features they have and — more importantly — how your customers are using them.

In brief: This week’s line-up includes mobile social games opportunities (now that Facebook is bombing and mobile is booming); must-read mobile design element documentation, mobile Bible content, and a look at why the Web is dead (not).

A few reminders before we deep-dive into the best in this week’s mobile blogging. As COM coordinator (or “keeper of the tents”) I’d like to encourage regular contributors and Mobilists to help me make the COM more interactive and valuable for everyone.

In brief: Time for our monthly podcast with Tomi Ahonen, mobile author and authority. We kick off with a look at our growing addiction to text messaging and wrap up with a well founded argument against going it alone in mobile. Does the company with the largest ecosystem win? Read on and find out…