“The mobile user experience does not fit into the browser-like box within which people are conceiving its potential capabilities today. The sooner we conceive of mobile-computing paradigms along their own continuum—detached from the original evolution of the World Wide Web—the sooner we will enjoy the potential of a mobile-computing world.” (Dirk Knemeyer – UXmatters)

“(…) history shows that communication technologies are typically highly polyvalent tools that can change their major functions completely during time.” (Hans Geser – Sociology of the Mobile Phone)

“(…) a workshop paper and a short paper on backpackers and research methods for mobile groups.” (Jeff Axup – Mobile Community Design)

“This article attempts to present technical advice on a superficial level. Some tips may surprise the reader; others may disappoint. But let’s be clear about one thing: We’re not aiming to publish a replete guide to advanced mobile development, but rather a starting point for mobile development – both practical and ambitious. Hence, a superficial treatment of the topic.” (Cameron Moll – Authentic Boredom)

“Issues of placelessness, the spatial and social relations created by television’s emergence as a dominant medium, have been around since the mid-1980s. With the triumphant march of mobile telephony these issues today appear to gain new significance and are seen in a new light. Social science focussing on mobile communication increasingly recgnizes that the mobile telephone is not only a revolutionary instrument that connects people globally, it is also a powerful tool for connections on a more local scale: an organizer of life in small spaces and communities.” (Kristóf Nyiri)

“The main goal of USE-ME.GOV is to contribute to a Next-Generation Open Service Platform for mobile users that can be shared by networked authorities and institutions (e.g. on a regional scale) in terms of technical infrastructure, information (content) as well as a framework for commercial exploitation.” (Contact use-me.gov) – courtesy of usabilitynews

“Today efficiency and effectiveness end up informing most design decisions (…) and in many cases rightly so (…) but leaving people missing a ‘sense of delight’ from their constant interactions with mobile connected devices.” (Fabio Sergio – freegorifero)

“How will we explain to our children that before, when you wanted to call someone, you needed to stand against a wall? Mobile phones today have become ubiquitous, embedded into the fabric of everyday life. They have become a mobile essential. If someone owns a mobile phone today it is likely to be one of the three things that she always carries with her, the other two being keys and some form of payment.” (Marko Ahtisaari) – courtesy of purselipsquarejaw

This is the second article in the four-part series. – “Neither praying nor cursing is likely to do a mobile site any good, especially if done in tandem.” (Authentic Boredom) – courtesy of nickfinck

This is the first article in the four-part series on Mobile Web Design. – “(…) if we learned only one thing from the ‘desktop web’ standards movement in recent years, it’s that even the most behemoth organizations listen if the wheel squeaks loudly enough. And where listening ears are found, there lies also the potential for change.” (Authentic Boredom)

“Use of the mobile phone is an immensely significant social and cultural phenomenon. However, market hype and utopian dreams greatly exaggerate its importance. The fundamental issue for sociology is the process of change. Bound up with contemporary issues of change, the mobile phone is a prime object for sociological attention both at the macro and micro levels of analysis. This article considers the strengths and weaknesses of four methods for studying the sociality of the mobile phone (social demography; political economy; conversation, discourse and text analysis; and ethnography), the different kinds of knowledge they produce, and the interests they represent.” (Jim McGuigan – Human Technology) – courtesy of annegalloway

“(…) a place where everyone can come to share their thoughts and make some sense of an increasingly mobile society. It aims to address the notion of mobility in the context of everyday life, calling on the experience of pioneers in various industries, and evaluating the past, present and future of connectivity.” (nokia.com)

“What the industry should be coming up with are more innovative ways to get at these functions (…) in ways that understand the kinds of experiences people want. It is about simplicity through design.” (BBC News Technology) – courtesy of lawrencelee

Making Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy and convenient as Web access from a desktop device – “World Wide Web technologies have become the key enablers for access to the Internet through desktop and notebook computing platforms. Web technologies have the potential to play the same role for Internet access from mobile devices. However, today, mobile Web access suffers from interoperability and usability problems that make the Web difficult to use for most mobile phone subscribers. W3C’s ‘Mobile Web Initiative’ (W3C MWI) proposes to address these issues through a concerted effort of key players in the mobile production chain, including authoring tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators.” (W3C)

“We are in real danger of a consumer backlash against annoying technologies. We already have seen the growth of mobile-phone free zones, of prohibition against phone use, camera use, camera phones, in all sort of public and private places. The mobile phone has been shown to be a dangerous distraction to the driver of an automobile, whether hands-free or not. If we do nothing to overcome these problems, then the benefits these technologies bring may very well be denied us because the social costs are simply too great. There are many sources of frustration or potential liability.” (Donald A. Norman) – courtesy of usabilityviews

“Only a cockeyed optimist would forecast an open, user-driven, entrepreneurial future for the mobile Internet. This should not prevent us from trying, however. Sometimes, envisioning the way things ought to be can inspire people to work at making it that way. That’s what manifestos are for.” (Howard Rheingold – TheFeature)

“As mobile phones become more capable, people are using them to store an increasingly wider variety and greater quantity of data. This raises a new problem for designers of handset user interfaces: how do you let owners find what they’re looking for in a coherent and friendly manner?” (Tom Hume – TheFeature) – courtesy of lucdesk