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Yes, we enjoyed with Picasa for iPhone and since april, also for Windows Mobile. There was only one left, and here it is, Picasa for the Nokia S60 platform is finally here.

If you want to give a try of any of this versions, just access picasaweb. It will detect your device and adapt accordingly. And it will do it really nice, I promise.

Here you have a few screenshots, and if you feel like reading, here you have the Google´s Mobile Blog posts for the releases: S60, WM and iPhone.

I bet we´ll have also an Android version as soon as the first devices hits the streets… and I guess that one will be the best of them all.

Via Google Mobile Blog

According to a study by Nielsen Mobile (a service of The Nielsen Company), Spain achieved the more than respectable third place on percentage of mobile subscribers who access social networks over the mobile Internet, just following U.S . and U.K.

Source: Nielsen Mobile; EU data Q1 2008, US data December 2007.

Of course, Myspace.com and facebook were the most visited sites, with the exception of Italy and France on first quarter of 2008 were MSN’s Windows Live Spaces become the leader.

Read More on Social Networking Going Mobile, Nielsen Finds

It is time for Opera Mobile to bring us the opportunity to work on internet applications without internet connection thanks it will support Gears in its desktop and mobile browsers.

“Opera will have full support for Gears on mobile when they launch this year,” said Charles Wiles, Product Manager for mobile web apps at Google. “Opera Mobile 9.5 will be a great example of a high-quality browser on a mobile platform that supports Gears. This marks the coming of age of the browser as the platform for application development on mobile devices.”

“The forthcoming Opera Mobile 9.5 with Gears will usher in a new era for the Web on mobile devices,” said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera. “Together, these products will create new ways to bring applications to life on mobile devices. Developers will be able to use this along with Opera Dragonfly to develop and debug compelling applications for any connected environment.”

Great!

Link Opera Press release

Do you think Opera is a minor alternative? I really don´t have any numbers, but from my view, Firefox and Safari have been increasing their fans, as well as Opera has not ever been noticed as a strong competitor on desktops systems (do you know someone using it on his/her desktop? ).

Opera´s main advantage is its focus on mobile devices on the last years, which results are good: now it´s the preferred option for web-browsing on Windows Mobile devices, and probably also for less powerful devices (thanks to Opera Mini, whose 4.1 version was released recently).

Now Opera has played an intelligent move, with the new Opera Widgets SDK Beta. This SDK allows you to create widgets (mini-apps) which will work on desktops AND mobile devices (not only smartphones, even ARCHOS multimedia devices). So this cross-platform capabilities may be a good leap on desktop systems, we will see how well those widgets integrate and how much people likes and uses them. I would bet for a system who lets me use the same little app on my desktop, mobile, PDA, Nintendo Wii or other devices.

The SDK is open source and follows the same pattern of other SDKs like Google´s Web Toolkit or iPhone´s SDK (even in the logo image! lol). It provides useful libraries for I/O, RSS, Graphics, etc; as well as lots of info, an emulator and DragonFly (Opera´s Firebug).

Now it´s your time for installing Opera and trying some widgets from the Opera Widgets site.

Via XatakaMovil

Links Opera - Opera Widgets SDK - Opera Widgets site - Opera Widgets cross-platform capabilities - Opera Mini 4.1 released - DragonFly - Firebug

At present mobile phones are more like a PDA than a cell phone.

For people who want a mobile phone in which only have installed what they need and have a relay telephone and personal well see exactly what they need, the RKS Group Design has created the Mimique.

Where the Mimique really sets itself apart is that it is designed to take advantage of the new, open-source cell phone technologies being developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance.

The combination of open source software and touch-screen technology will make the Mimique easily upgradable and will extend the lifespan of the phone , because of to add new features enough to download the new functionality.

Via Unplggd

Opera Mini 4.1 lets you have the full Web everywhere. This newest release includes several new features, including automatic completion of Web addresses, making it easier to get to the sites you need; tools for attaching files to Web-based email; uploading photos to your blog or other site; downloading attachments from email for storage on your phone; and saving and viewing pages offline.

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Brightkite is not another microblogging tool, it is like twitter or Pownce, but with some handy location-based features. It let you see what people around you are doing in real time.

You can attach your current position to small 140 character posts, it also lets you see who is around you based on when they “checked in.

Users can create for places they frequent often and meet people who do the same activities, like gym or café, in order to avoid having to type it out each time they post.

Maybe it is one of the best options of microblogging available for mobile. You can create an account now, but is still a beta.

Via Loogic

Link Brightkite

Google has recently announced the availability of mobile image ads for AdWorks and AdSense. Supported image formats are JPEG, GIF y PNG.

As Google Mobile blog claims, “These look like standard image ads for desktop web pages but they are smaller to fit on mobile screens and they run on the mobile content network”.

In fact, an image ad will never weight more than 3KB (a 305 x 64 banner).

Mobile image ads are currently available in Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, the UK, and the US.

Via Observatorio
Link GoogleMobile

Good news for iPhone owners! a new service created by TheSMESpace converts any well formed XML RSS feed to an iPhone-optimized version with the typical sliding style interface.

Jim Liddle, one of the creators of the service, told “You can book mark the generated site and use it to host your own content and reference it from your own site.”, That sounds great!

If you are on iPhone now, take a look to SevenClick blog optimized.

Via iPhoneAtlas

If  you normally follow our blog, you might be aware of how difficult is developing Mobile Websites. There is a plethora of formats, standards and device features that must be taken into account by mobile web developers.

.mobi has created its own solution to this problem. Unfortunately, not for free. This is the service explanation, according to .mobi site:

“DeviceAtlas is the world’s most comprehensive database of mobile device information. Everything you ever wanted to know about every handset on the planet. Search and view the data for free, and then download into your applications so that you can thrill your users - whatever handset they own.”

Searching and viewing the data is for free, but when you eventually include the information in your application, you must buy a license. Strange, taking into account that WURFL, the de-facto standard for device identification, is a free and open-source solution massively addopted by the community. DeviceAtlas claims WURFL as one of their information sources, among others.

I personally think that this kind of solutions should be provided for free. Probably W3C should be more actively involved. They are currently standardizing their own device database. But, you know, things are easy and slow there.

Link .mobi DeviceAtlas