In an election climate that drew much of its early vigor from the infamous 3am text message heard ’round the nation, it’s only fitting that as the day grows closer we gear up in suitable fashion…
Yep… It’s time to get your cell phone outfitted for election day data overload.

As a first step, check out two of the best mobile sites I’ve found: Google Election News Tracker and CNN’s America Votes mobile site. I have the Goog app bookmarked on my iPhone (see my strangely red hand holding up said app below), and it’s a great quick resource pulling in the latest election-related rss feeds. It’s really nothing fancier than a simple pre-loaded search query, but helpful on the go.

Slate.com also released a sweet little iPhone app called Vote Tracker 08 (99 cents at the app store) that’s been getting positive reviews.

Moving beyond the mobile web, I urge you to follow Paul Notzold’s Txtual Healing 10 Nights, 10 Cities, 4 States, 1 Obama Road Trip ’08!

And, of course, don’t forget to send your Wiffiti support to the Obama Minute Billboard in Times Square!

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Nokia made this video to tout mobile as the emerging fourth screen.
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Although the piece is extremely well done, here at LocaModa we prefer to think of the fourth screen in a much broader, more integrated sense than simply the “mobile screen” (as slick as they’ve become on many models). Per the Teemu Arina quote I referenced yesterday, this is much more about a convergence of screens (mobile, web, digital out-of-home) than the ascendancy of one particular facet.

All that said… still a video worth watching.

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Clearly, banking (in all of its topical permutations) has been top of mind “from Wall Street to Main Street” as of late (seriously, if I hear that phrase one. more. time.)

But what of mobile banking?

Mobile, as a broad media segment, couldn’t get any hotter right now. (I’ll quickly cite that Americans sent 1.6 billion text messages a day in December 2007, and that they talked for two trillion minutes for that year, aaaand that both of these figures continue to grow… you get the idea.) Toss that data in with the fact that most consumers say that they would like the ability to access their bank accounts and carry out transfers via their mobile phone, and this seems like a market primed for success…

But.
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