Weekly Web Watch #19

Mobile%20Pic %20SAsia%204 The best of what I've come across on the web in the last week as relates to mobile ministry

Apps (Games, QR Codes & Social Media are in their own categories)

Six Questions to Ask Before Starting Your Global App Empire

Comparison: App Inventor, DroidDraw, Rhomobile, PhoneGap, Appcelerator, WebView, and AML

Fighter Verses on Your iPhone or Android (Bible memorization app)

Design & Innovation

The Simple Two-Step Process

Know What the Problem Really Is Before You Design a Solution (Video of Iris Lapiski of Apps for Good sharing about how their program is helping disadvantaged youth. Key takeaway for me was towards the beginning when she stressed some of the fundamentals of problem definition that need to be undertaken prior to solution development)

General/Other

Are You Mobile Enough?

The Mobile Landscape- 10 Things Media Pros Need to Know (thanks to a @mobileministrymagazine tweet)

Mobile Media and PR (don't let the title fool you- lots of good stuff on how mobile can help in initiating, developing and maintaining relationships)

Mobile Phone Practices & The Design of Money Services for Emerging Markets (Not so interested in banking? Neither am I but Jan Chipchase is the greatest student of how people in the developing world really use their mobile phones and what motivates them to use them the way they do so there's a lot in here we can all learn)

Apple Plots Move To Expand iPhone’s Market Share

Gemalto: The Review (3 MB PDF “magazine”- interesting read on mobile developments in Asia)

16+ Projects & Initiatives Building Ad-Hoc Wireless Mesh Networks

Mobile Marketing Association Mobile Couponing Guidelines

Mobile for Good (Missions, Health, Education, Activism, Etc.)

An Introduction to Mobile Ministry (PPT presentation given by Cyber Missions at ICCM Europe Conference)

Team Delivers Development Aid Via Cell Phone Animations

Mobile Phones and the Middle East's Many Million Documentarians (thanks to a @davehackett tweet)

Making Cell Phones Useful for School

What I've Learnt About Mobile Learning Design

Mobile Web

Considerations for Mobile Design (Part 1): Speed