Dave Winer yesterday announced EC2 for Poets, a step-by-step guide to help you create a server on Amazon’s EC2. His how-to is so easy to understand that we had our own server up and running within the hour. Sure, it may not seem like much that this fairly uninteresting page is sitting out there somewhere, but for this writer, it was an amazing coup.

“It’s time to stop thinking about these servers as being things for geeks and start thinking about them as things for people with ideas,” Winer said in a podcast roadmap he created for this work. The technology available today is enabling anyone with even the slightest technical bent to get out there and create amazing new things; often taking the technology in directions than the company which created it could have ever imagined.

Here’s a link to the entire thread: Got an Hour? Create a Server in the Cloud.

Interesting commentary from ReadWriteWeb…

The next big trend for social networking is the rise of the mobile social network. Gen Y’s cell phone addiction has given way to a proliferation of these mobile networks, each one trying to be the MySpace of the mobile web. The number of users on these services is growing fast – in fact, a new study by InStat is predicting that by 2012, there will be nearly 30 million “millennials” in the U.S. using a mobile social network of some sort, and a ComputerWorld report confirms that worldwide, that number will soar to 975 million by 2012.

Mobile Social Web: 975 Million Users By 2012 – ReadWriteWeb.

Interesting post from Scott Gordon on RecruitingBlogs.com:

I honestly think that this is outstanding. I want to hire her..and hire her now. The recruiter at what ever cell phone provider she uses should be on her like stink. Who better to market their devices other than a girl that can send 484 text messages per day??

I don’t have kids but I can only imagine what I’d do if I were her dad. A monthly cell phone bill of $2900 bucks. 484 text messages per day – to FOUR – of her friends. Grrrrrrrand total per month – 14,528 text messages that generated a 400 page phone bill.

WHY is her dad so friggen happy??

Interesting usage trends follow. Recruiters take note: When you’ve got initiative there are no limits! OOOOOO…YOU ARE SO GROUNDED!! OOOOOOO!!!!

Here’s a quick look at how mobile is taking shape in the world of recruitment…

We often talk creative ways in which we can leverage mobile marketing in the recruitment process.  More Mobile Relations utilized an integrated solution that included print, ad, SMS, MMS, and email to recruit qualified candidates.  Here’s a case of a company truly “walking-the-talk” with great success.

This from More Mobile Relations:

The challenge

Attracting the best employees is a challenge in the best of times. A new generation of job seekers is more inclined to focus on value-based issues rather than a fancy title or fat paycheck. Corporate social responsibility (CSR), company values, environmental policies and so on are increasingly important factors in attracting employees. For these job seekers, company information and the way the company expresses its brand can be deciding factors.

More Mobile Relations Norway was hiring new employees in cooperation with Orion Search International AS. The first job recruitment ad (Dagens Næringsliv, on July 4, 2008) was very traditional in approach and had very low response, resulting in no qualified applications.

You can read the solution here: You’re hired! Cross-media job search nets qualified applications | More Mobile Relations.

The ECT News Network picked this up:

Crowdsourcing and telecommuting are conspiring to reinvent the traditional notion of a job. No longer is the one-employer model the only game in town. Some companies have found that work done by freelancers may be of better quality than what they were used to getting from their in-house employees.

Read the rest here: How the Virtual Workforce Is Changing Everything.

Creating a mobile version of your blog or website is not as hard as we think, at least there is no programming involved. MoFuse helps site owners to create a mobile version of the website within clicks. Creating a mobile site is simple; just sign up, fill up a couple of compulsory text-fields and your mobile site is good to go.

Mofuse is fairly easy to get around with, I’ve created a mobile version of hongkiat.com in few clicks, there’s even an iPhone version too! More options are available in the Dashboard to further customize the mobile site, making it more personalized.

Create Mobile Version Of Your Website / Blog With MoFuse | Web 2.0.

Google, Yahoo and MSN/Windows Live were the most popular websites in 2008; Yahoo Mail, Google Search and Gmail were the top mobile websites; and the Motorola (MOT) RAZR V3 series was the most popular cell-phone handset, according to The Nielsen Company, which released its annual “Top 10″ internet and mobile website rankings for the year.

The article has some interesting stats and tables.

Top 10 Internet and Mobile Sites, Handsets – Seeking Alpha.

The world has gone mad for mobility, and the public sector is no exception. Benefits include: increased access to information, less need for fieldworkers to travel to the office and even less need for office space. With all the pros, one wonders why IT departments aren’t jumping for joy.

But CIOs face many challenges as the work force becomes mobile, like providing reliable service and access; managing additional devices; securing the devices, access and information; and supporting mobile workers.

CIOs: 10 Steps to Mobile Work Force Control – Government Technology.

Steven Rothberg says:

Is there any doubt by anyone that the way that Gen Y communicates is fundamentally different from the way previous generations communicated? I don’t believe that the ways that Gen Y communicates are better or worse but they certainly are different. For example, this is the first generation to have grown up with cell phones.

Mobile Web is About to Boom : CollegeRecruiter.com Blog.