Russell Beattie wants a mobile CSS Zen Garden. Dave Shea has a lot on his plate, but I think we should support the effort and help to make it happen! In his latest posting on handheld stylesheets, Russell points out the latest (and greatest) Opera solutions for flexible CSS solutions to style sheets for various browser types.
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Dorrian Porter, founder and CEO of Mozes Inc..
For newbies, the Carnival features the best writing about mobile from around the web in the last week.
The article I wrote last week on user context and the Mobile Web is his recommended reading of this edition.
You can read Dorrian’s excellent wrap-up of this week here.

Today Sling Media, Inc. announced the release of SlingPlayer Mobile as part of a public beta. From the press release: “SlingPlayer Mobile is a new software package that gives Slingbox owners the ability to watch and control their home TV from any network-enabled mobile phone or handheld computer (PDA) powered by Windows Mobile.”
The MIX06 conference held in Vegas this week was quite an event. Microsoft makes its debut into the design and web authoring world with this first-time event that started with Bill discussing next generation browsing via I.E. 7.0, improved RSS capabilities and new Atlas framework (Microsoft’s version of AJAX they are calling “Live Software” rather than the overused term “2.0”). A colleague commented after the event:
Already ‘mixing’ it up at the first microsoft design conference. Bill gates opened the day with some compelling demos (flanked by myspace.com’s cto and the bbc demo-ing phenomenal widgets in the new vista environment.
just finished the beta for the 3Guia guide for san francisco. access it from your mobile at http://www.3guia.com/sf to see insider views on food, shopping and nightlife!