I have long been following the mobile market and been wondering when the mobile web will finally start to take off in a big way. I think one of the biggest roadblocks has been that the mobile market consists of hundreds of devices and carriers and no common platform.

Why is that such a big deal?

Because it hurts innovation since a small developer will not be able to quickly and cheaply develop a wireless app that runs on all networks and works on all machines. For innovation to take off, developing for mobile devices has to become as easy as developing new applications for the web.

Well, it looks like we have just come A LOT closer to this vision. If you are interested in the mobile market and developing mobile apps, this is the company to watch:

BluePulse

The bluepulse Open Application Development Platform (OADP) is provided free of charge, and bluepulse provides all infrastructure required to install, manage and report on your customer's mobile internet applications and content delivered via the bluepulse client. bluepulse applications (called "widgets" since they're small, efficient and quick to download) are in use by thousands of consumers in real applications around the world today.

This is a powerful new tool and approach to developing exciting new mobile apps and we might just have to create a few widgets of our own down the line.

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