INSIDE FACEBOOK — Today at the Nokia World conference in Stuttgart, Facebook’s Director of Mobile, Henri Moissinac, announced that Facebook’s worldwide mobile audience just crossed 65 million active users. To put that in perspective, that’s nearly 25% of all of Facebook’s total worldwide reach – and four times as many people using Facebook Mobile than this time last year…

via Worldwide Facebook Mobile Usage Up 300% In Last 12 Months | socialmediaBiz.com.

Can imagine that’s causing some angst for carriers.

To that end, Moissinac said that, for example, all photos on Facebook Mobile are low-resolution. And when dealing with carriers based in emerging countries with 2G networks, Facebook can make photos smaller or bury them within the app altogether so they’re not displayed when a user first logs on. But going forward, it will likely have to offer additional concessions, since for Facebook, which just released its first official mobile application for Android devices yesterday and is currently developing an app for Palm’s WebOS, accommodating carriers’ concerns will continue to be necessary in order for it to successfully expand across the mobile realm.

via Carriers to Facebook Mobile: Get on a Data Diet .

GigaOm Why Sony Ericsson Is Living in a Land of Make.Believe .

Of course, not so long ago The Register were wondering whether gesture-based gaming on a handset was make.believe.

6-8pm at Horse Bazaar, which is just behind that car with the boot open:

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Should be outstanding – here’s the full details at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia Inc. site..

Great bunch of mobile design references; I particularly liked Annika Brinkmann‘s mobile design ideas and explorations.

We talked about mobile, as did a lot of the attendees in the round table discussions that took place. The main questions were around which platform to focus on, which features and functionality to target and how the experience differs from the web experiences being delivered.

One of the strong impressions I got was the regulatory environment is a present concern for many in the industry, and that understanding how that impacts efforts to focus more on the customer and use emerging technologies to improve the customer experience.

Monty Hamilton was a compelling speaker on a panel about Social Communities, and James Gardner gave a good presentation around using emergence to innovate at Lloyds TSB.

…the need for intelligent and visual human interfaces to this evolving Web is not limited simply to the modalities of searching and browsing (important as these are). As the Web continues to evolve from a read-mainly to a read-write medium, and the level of social interaction supported on the Web increases, there is also a pressing need to support end-users who engage in a wide range of online tasks, such as publishing and sharing their own data on the Web.

Topics:

• Visual interfaces supporting exploration and/or navigation of unstructured or structured data on the Web
• Visualizing and interacting with semi-structured/linked data on the Semantic Web or the Social Semantic Desktop
• Ontology-based visualization of & interaction with collections of data
• Novel paradigms to interact with textual data, photos, music, videos on mobile devices
• Lightweight components for casual users to publish/share their own contents on the Web
• Real-world use cases
• Lessons learned from intelligent interfaces built to interact with Web-based contents

Look forward to seeing what comes out of this.

Link: http://www.smart-ui.org/events/vissw2009/index.html

Great to see Oliver Weidlich in there. He’s a tremendous advocate for the user experience and it’s benefits to the industry, and is passion is evident in everything i’ve seen him involved in.

I think it’s incomplete, it doesn’t include Emily Freeman.

She has:

• Spent five years at Sensis building their now established suite of mobile products from the ground up
• Run the first mobile advertising trial in Australia in 2006
• Been instrumental in authoring and publishing AIMIA’s first Mobile Advertising Guidelines
• Created a Mobile site directory
• Done some blogging

If the list needs to be eleven, so be it, it is incomplete without her.