Some recent client activity prompted me to put together a high level summary that clarifies important considerations and aspects of a successful mobile strategy.

The latest data from Nielsen shows what we already knew - Android is the dominant OS (split among HTC at 15%, Samsung at 10%, Motorola at 10%, and the rest at 7%), iPhone is the dominant smart phone (28% of market), followed by RIM at a surpirsing 18%. Android/iPhone dominates the market at 71%, leaving Windows Phone 7 and Windows Mobile behind. And in the past 30 days, they were responsible for 83 percent of all mobile apps downloaded. Take all of the above and sprinkle in some ads, and Millenial Media's October report shows Android beating iPhone, RIM and Windows. While Apple's iPhone dominates mobile phone makers as the No. 1 phone in the market, Android phones dominate the share of ad impressions across mobile platforms. But let's now shift to tablets.

Here's a snapshot of this morning's punch list. Draft a spec and estimate for a mobile site conversion, newsletter/eMarketing campaign suite, and online catalog that targets smart devices Issue a logo rev to a client Check status with the dev's on a couple of code forks (NB_Store, SmithCart) for some eCommerce initiatives Add/enable 600GB RAID Level 1 on one of the dedicated database servers; reconfigure the backup schedules to use the new storage. Finish and deliver a spec for a "video in the cloud" service that will pass cleanly through enterprise/corporate firewalls, optimize for the bandwidth of the requestor through adaptive bitrate, and sense the device (desktop, tablet, smart phone) to provide for the best user experience Fix some client discussion forums (ActiveForums) where some incorrect filtering was causing submitted code fragments to be mangled Investigate and resolve some bad page requests that were out of hand on a DNN 5 site Review some DotNetNuke World 2011 session videos Schedule some client training for SmithCart store administration Prep for a atratetgy meeting on member landing pages for an area health club

An opinion piece by Holman Jenkins that recently appeared in the Wall Street Journal was right on. The title was "Wi-Fi and the Mobile Meltdown," and was a story about how the distinction between the fixed and mobile networks is getting more blurry all the time. Here's a great statistic ...

If you don't already have a ticket to Design Camp Boston on Saturday, November 6, you might be out of luck - tickets for the event are sold out. It's being held over at the NERD (Microsoft New England Research & Development Center) in Cambridge. Design Camp is All About Creativity Design Camp focuses on both current trends and future developments in web design and user experience across their many forms. Community driven, Design Camp Boston is a free, weekend-day event featuring some 18 sessions spanning web site design, frameworks, content management systems, motion graphics, standards, mobile applications, marketing, social media and more. But if you are going, please stop in at my session: Introduction to the DotNetNuke Portal/CMS Platform See DotNetNuke – the leading web content management platform for Microsoft .NET, with 800,000 users and 600,000 sites in production. This open source, community-driven CMS should be considered for every web site initiative. For beginners or advanced users, you will come away with an appreciation for what DotNetNuke is capable of, and how to get started with using it to suit your needs. There are some others that might be of interest too: Open Source Marketing Platform Abusing The Internet with CSS3 Design for Change, It Makes Cents Design and Internet Explorer 9 – HTML5, CSS3, SVG, and More So you want a CMS? (Hint: It’s like picking a car.) Introduction to HTML 5 Windows Phone 7 Application Design Primer Protoyping & Wireframing with Sketchflow Efficient UX workflow from design to development Designing Faster Websites Learn CSS… Building a User-Centric Company WordPress As A CMS SEO and the SEO Toolkit Designing with Balsamiq Mockups Joomla! for Designers Web Project Lifecycle