If you want to develop a successful product or application, you have to truly understand the target market, the demands of the users, the opinions of the thought leaders, the market trends and opportunities and the whole ecosystem that surrounds you. This is a hard tasks because there is a wealth of information but a lack of attention. Always getting distracted by the stream of information from various sources is a really tough problem and makes you unproductive.

I won’t present any solutions to this problem but invite everyone who is interested in the mobile space, mobile technologies & applications and mobile entrepreneurship to join a group chat our team just initiated. The Mobile Chat, see below. It is meant as a place for short qualitative announcement messages and a place for interesting discussions with the focus on mobile, the market of the future. It is open to everyone and feel free to participate and add some value.

I just compiled a quick and dirty collection of my favorite podcasts. Topics range from entrepreneurship to technology, lifestyle, traveling, Ruby on Rails and many more.

Any excellent podcasts to add? I’m especially interested in the entrepreneurship ones and podcasts about mobile application development or anything targeting the mobile market.

I posted a blog entry on the LIFT conference community blog. It is about the characteristics and differences of mobile and web content, if you want to separate these two. Feel free to comment on these thoughts.

The Internet and its services play a more and more important role on mobile devices and thus I am interested in mobile application development and its chances for startups. Everyone is waiting for mobile killer applications for years but we are coming closer and I expect 2009 to be an interesting mobile year.