Molecularist

Fabio Sergio has a great brainwave on operators, ‘who will establish a privileged relationship with the customer’, and the ‘ecology of value’ provided by the mobile operators.

This way of putting it is the best I have seen – it puts the whole discussion in neutral and non-confrontational terms that lead to a definite win-win.

Link: f r e e g o r i f e r o | weblog.

That said I’ll start from a "road trip analogy": a highway, vehicles that run on it, scenery along the way and (hopefully) destinations.
Who "owns" the traveling experience?
The organization that maintains the blacktop?
Or the company that owns the gas stations and places where you can stop for rest and drinks?
Or the car manufacturer that provides you with a comfortable ride?
Or maybe the real value lies in what you can see and do once you’ve reached your final destination?

…

In other words I
think that all the players, and especially operators, would be better
off thinking in terms of an "ecology of value" and how each link in the
chain should play an essential role, customers included, rather than relating to each other in terms of sheer supremacy.
They
will hopefully understand that to keep clients happy the focus should
not be on becoming the only surviving species, but to nurture and
defend biodiversity.
After all, who would like to travel in a BrandX car on BrandX roads, sleeping in a BrandX Hotel in BrandX City all the time?

Fabio Sergio, do indeed look me up when you are in Helsinki some day. I look forward to sharing thoughts with you.

One thing that has been dear to me is how to bring together, on our mobile, our whole Web experience that we are used to through the large-screen PC-based browser with multiple action buttons and right-clicking.

I’ve been enamored with mobile services that do such aggregation, such as WINKsite. But, I don’t see many. And RSS readers in the end, do not count. While I think Yahoo and Google could do something, they are stuck to their own services. Therefore, I think such solutions will likely come from independent aggregators.

Rich McManus, from Read/Write Web, has been doing a great string of articles covering microcontent aggregators and personalized start pages (some more recent articles here here and here). I think this is a new level in the spiral of 3Cs (consume-connect-create), that Andrew mentioned, leading into (don’t gag) Web 3.0.

Of course, I want to know how these services work on mobiles. I have been trying to push these thoughts around here at Nokia because, as Freegorifero says, ‘The structure holding the morsels becomes the experience.’

In the end, for me, it’s not about bringing it all together in some passive consumption sort of way, but how can I then act upon that stream of info that I have aggregated onto my teeny mobile device.

I have reams and reams of thoughts and suggestions here.

Sigh.

Ooh, I either missed or forgot the cognection between Rich and Broadband Mechanics. That explains the fascination with microcontent aggregation. And my favorite microcontent aggregation dude is, none other than, the inestimable Marc Canter.