Mobile Web 2.0 (Discuss!) (part 2):

location based services

"Well Mobile Monday has been and gone... I did sit on the panel and we did discuss Mobile Web 2.0. In the second part of this Mobile Web 2.0 discussion I'm going to just make a few points that I think got lost in the discussions on the panel and give a bit of reasoning behind them.
As I said before I believe in mobi-web 2.0 which is new innovative mobile solutions that break through the boundaries of the mobile issues such as multiple operating systems, multiple devices, languages etc. I also have a strong belief in MobileWeb 2.0 the extension of web 2.0 to mobile devices. By this I mean mobile wiki's, blogging via mobile, rss to mobile, podcasts bi directionally (creation and listening to). Some of these things are already here and only today I heard that SocialText launched Miki, a mobile wiki solution. A fantastic example of mobile wiki's working in the browser.
I think there is a lot more that needs to be done for mobi-web 2.0 to take off completely. The biggest barriers to entry are the disparities of the OS and the lack of developer-> network provider and developer->device manufacturer input. In many ways this is a shame and I have a feeling that this is beginning to change. (or at least I hope it will).
With new versions of the Windows Mobile operating system and the new Symbian 9 operating system hopefully platform changes won't happen too often so then they will be stable. Browsers... well those should work to web standards... (if only...) and I guess us developers just have to test with all browser types the same as we do when we create any other web application.
Those location based services, low level date information etc all need nicely bundling into api's for the dev to access... now that would create interesting applications... a new phase of mobile dev"