This will be the final edition of the Weekly Web Watch for the foreseeable future. Through the Weekly Web Watch we have built up a database of over a thousand articles/videos/ slidesets/reports/guides/etc. and it's now time that we do the work of processing the information contained in those and creating what will hopefully be brief, helpful and actionable resources that will assist you in getting mobile ministry implemented easily (at least relatively so) and effectively (see the "How-To's" we've put out so far).
We also will work to make available a searchable database of these 1000+ resources with each resource tagged against 50 potential areas of interest (i.e. tagged for social media, mobile web, Africa, mLearning, etc.).
Enjoy this final Weekly Web Watch and come on back to find what comes next!
Apps (Games, QR Codes & Social Media are in their own categories)
Consumers Now Spending More Time on Apps Than the Web (note that this is for US consumers)
Mobile Development 101: What You Need to Know
Multilingual Apps: Keeping on the Crest of the App Wave
Design & Innovation
User Centered Design and Mobile User Experience
General/Other
4 Rules of Engagement for Mobile Marketing
India's oft delayed $35 tablet ready to ship, unicorns shed tears of joy (we’re thrilled to hear the news but will believe it when we see it actually shiping)
Float Mobile Learning’s YouTube Page (lots of good stuff from their conference earlier this month)
Mobile for Good (Health, Education, Activism, Etc.)
Slides: Developing a Learning Strategy for Mobile and Social (Keynote)
mLearnCon 2011 Backchannel Collected Resources
Google Breadcrumb: Slightly Geeky and Fun Mobile Learning Tool
Ten Tips for Designing Mobile Learning Content
Echoing Green’s Mobile Technology in Social Innovation Online Series:
Education and Learning
Health
Africa: Mobile Phones Improve Health Across Continent
Starting a revolution with technology
Mobile Web
InMobi’s Naveen Tewari: Mobile Internet Will Be the Largest Medium Ever
Speaker Slides & Video, Velocity 2011 (Velocity is “the” web performance and operations conference, presentations of interest include 10 Tricks for Mobile Performance, Analyzing the Performance of Mobile Web: Challenges & Techniques, Mobile Web & HTML5 Performance Optimization, etc.) (more video here)
Effective Mobile Landing Page Design
Take Responsive Web Design Beyond the (Fluid) Grid
Operating Systems/Handset Makers
Research In Motion (RIM/Blackberry) Stumbles Through Its First Quarter
iPhone's Market Share Gains Cut Into Android's Smartphone Dominance
Five Days with an S40 Phone- Day Five (the S40 operating system is probably the most widely used OS on the face of the planet- used in as much as 1.3 billion feature phones)
Nokia Will Launch Windows Phone Handsets in Six European Countries This Year
Windows 8 Could Send Windows Phone 7 to the Graveyard
QR Codes & Near Field Communications
QR Codes 101- Link to a Mobile-Optimized Site
World's First Coins With QR Codes Will Start Circulating in the Netherlands Next Week
Security/Privacy
Mobile Phone Security: What Are the Risks?
How to Avoid Being Phished On Your Smartphone
Lookout Mobile Security Adds Safe Browsing to Guard Against Phishing Attacks
Cellcrypt releases encrypted voice telephony app for Android
SMS/Texting/Instant Messaging
EasySMS app enables illiterate people to read, compose and send text messages
Pinger Builds a Bridge Between IM and SMS
Mobile Technology and the Last Mile
Streamlining Text Messages to Fast Track Mobile Marketing
Social Media
Wireless Rural Nepal: The village facebookers (video)
What You Need to Know About Facebook and Mobile
Stats/Studies
Riding the Mobile Innovation Wave in Emerging Markets
MMA (Mobile Marketing Association) and Google Reveal Smartphone User Findings
Nigeria Enjoys 31% Mobile Browsing Penetration, the U.S. 6%
Video/Multimedia/Augmented Reality
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