The “2.0″ bandwagon continues, making Twitter seem important, along with the insistence from some commentators that the mobilization of developer goodies like AJAX is the future of mobile. Like I’ve said many times already, putting the word “mobile” in front of things like “Web 2.0″ and “AJAX” is pure hype. There isn’t anything essentially mobile about these technologies, nor their “mobile versions”, nor do they mean much for the future of mobile.

The steady leakage of “desktop” web technologies onto mobiles is simply inevitable, mostly uneventful and more often painful. Web standards there might be, but try delivering a rich web experience to a wide set of handsets across a wide number of operators (with their various firmware tweaks) and then think again about the word “standard” before salivating about these high-end upgrades.

Mobilization of our lives will increase, in part thanks to the gradual opening of the mobile web, mostly encouraged by more flat-rate data packages and better tools for the layperson, like Zinadoo, not from 2.0-isms and boring widgets (not so boring on the Mac mind you - nice eye-candy).

However, the real impact will come from new technologies that offer unique mobile experiences that open up new paradigms. I think there are three worthy of note, although there are more:

1. Massive wireless connectivity of low-power devices (i.e. button cell, like watches) via the Wibree standard
2. Massive deployment of mobile commerce solutions (also enabled by lower power wireless, like NFC)
3. Massive adoption of Mobile TV, like DVB-H, particularly interactive services and new modes of media production that we have yet to see

Mobile web and J2ME will just be the glue that holds this stuff together, although I think that the more exciting horizontal layer will turn out to be avatars as transferable assets. Yes, perhaps a widget here and there, but these ain’t so special. Doing something useful with the homescreen of the mobile moves us forward a bit, but widgets is just the icing. However, where such “zero-click” technologies have already been deployed, like Motorola’s Screen3 (or Motocast), content consumption habits change, no doubt, but not in any ground-shifting way.

The above technologies are all ground-shifting as they will cause new habits in our mobile lives from which there shall be no return. In the style of a Dan Brown novel, I shall keep you hanging until some future posts to spell out why each of these will be significant, if it isn’t obvious already. If you want to get a flavour for life in the Wibree/M-Payment world, then read Chapter 1 of my book Next General Wireless Apps, which I’m currently updating for the 2nd edition. However, don’t fret the shameless plug. I shall reveal all on this blog, so you don’t have to rush out and buy the book. Besides, real mobilists already have a copy

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