QRCode (or in this case Blotcode) meets fashion and art. Mobile Barcamp is always inspiring:

Via Demarketplace.com/blog

I am here at Mobilecam NYC 3 in the Microsoft offices.
I couldn’t find the SMS Election session, so I am here in another great session called “How To Add SMS To Your Business”. I’ve been to the session last year and launched a few SMS campaigns since…..but I hope to get an idea about the adaption of SMS (which always was my biggest problem).

SMS is not Email. Technical Reasons: 120 bytes, only  160 characters in English (Chinese other  characters take even more). No unique means of tracking a conversation.

SMS is a Privilege not a Right.
All Carriers will audit your application. If there are issues come up, you have 4 days to come up with a fix or carrier will shut you down. Aggregators like MxTelecom. Mblox or Textopoly can usually help to avoid this situation. (Also Marketing Guide).

Opt-in, Opt-out, Quit/end service needs to be in place (see marketing guide):

The Future about SMS:..Hopefully free. SMS costs in Europe are almost half of US, Asia about 1 Cent. There is currently no Mobile SMS advertising network for smaller SMS sites).

Wired reports that flexible displays might be here within 2-3 years. Crazy!

Have a look for yourself.Looks pretty good:

Pretty impressive startup from Japan…Tonchidot:

SekaiCameraDemoVideo of TechCrunch50

TechCrunch50: Super-funny, hilarious Q&A with tonchidot

The past two years it hasn’t been really great to live on the East Coast while all big international sports events happen in Europe or Asia.

However Google’s Mobile team put up a mobile optimized site about the Summer Games 2008, which allows to check results anywhere at any time. Just visit this page on your mobile.

What a relieve for hardcore summer olympics fans

Got I don’t like Graffeltopia (yes I still use a PC!), but they always come up with genius stuff:

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Mobile Firefox Fennec won’t launch until 2009, but an alpha version should be available soon:

“Mozilla’s mobile web browser, which is under development as part of Firefox 4 platform and code named Fennec, won’t launch until 2009. Still, the team is planning to release the first alpha version by the end of August and a viable beta by year’s end, according to Mozilla.org. Fennec is expected to reach another milestone on June 20 with the release of M4.”

Google Adwords Mobile just announced a bunch of new formats. Here are the different versions:

Interesting guide on how to design for a mobile over at Sitepoint.com. Is it just me or did the Sitepoint site redesign it’s own portal. Looks great.

The number of users browsing the Web from a mobile device continues to rise, yet most mobile web sites are still sub-par.

The thing is, creating a great web experience for users of mobile devices is much easier than you might think. In this article I’ll introduce seven fundamental steps that, if followed, will help you avoid the pitfalls that have caused many other mobile sites to fail. By the end of this article you’ll know exactly where to focus your efforts in order to build a successful mobile site.

Entire article at Sitepoint