Mobile Groove

A raft of recent reports reveal how we engage with our mobile devices (and tablets) while watching TV, but research released today shows that our appetite for multi-screen access might be greatest during live events where having a bird’s-eye view into everything (the event, the action, the background facts and stats, and the latest news and updates) delivers us a 360-degree experience we genuinely appreciate.

This is the key takeaway of the April 2012 SMART report (Scorecard for Mobile Ad…

The Carnival of the Mobilists (COM), the weekly roundup of the Web’s best blogging on mobile and wireless, is now live at WIP (Wireless Industry Partnership) — the connector in the mobile industry, supporting the overall ecosystem by encouraging discussions, co-creation and exchange.

Some of the posts that made the COM this week include:

• Looking for a mobile app developer? James Coops over at mobyaffiliates launches a new resource to help us find the right partner. The Best Mobile App Develo

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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…

The right content (or advertising) delivered to the right person in the right context. Mobile makes it possible, but a new study throws a discomforting variable back into this perfect equation. Digital Natives are multi-tasking to the max, making it harder than ever for content companies and brands owners to delight their customers for more than minutes at a stretch. Michelle Manafy explores this milestone study and offers advice on how to remain relevant to a demographic whose attention is bein…

Mobile is global. Everywhere on the planet companies and merchants are using mobile in new ways to market and drive results. Innovation and inspiration can be found at the fringe, and across the four corners of the globe. Keeping an open and curious mind is essential. Best practices, key learnings, and real-life experiences are all around us. The hard part is identifying what we can (and should) apply as we seek to supercharge our own mobile marketing strategies.

To start us on this journey I have col…

In this companion post to our Biznar mobile search app road test we catch up with Abe Lederman, CEO of Deep Web Technologies to explore his mobile roadmap and aim to open up more to third-parties and app developers.

Let’s start with a high-level view of Deep Web Technologies…

Deep Web Technologies started in 2002. We’re about 20 people, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and we started out by building public federated search applications for federal government clients. Our best known app…