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  • Design Patterns - Posted by ronan 1 year 38 weeks ago
  • Don't forget the supine surfer
  • It's easy to be waylaid by the word "mobile" in "mobile web", to assume that the defining characteristic of mobile web surfer is the fact that they are out and about. Not always so! Sometimes, mobile = not at PC. Remember that "mobile web" often means the "consumed-on-mobile-device web" rather than the "out-and-about web". 
  • - Posted by ronan 1 year 39 weeks ago
  • Transcoding: what are the Viagra, Cialis and "Dear Winner" of HTML tag soup?
  • Over the last 6 months or so part of the tech team in dotMobi has been working on Instant Mobilizer, a site mobilizer service to help small businesses dip their toes in the waters of the mobile web. One of the big problems with content transcoding is deciding when it should be applied: if there is little hope of it working well another alternative should be offered. 
  • Community - Posted by daniel.hunt 1 year 39 weeks ago
  • Trinity College Dublin - TA-DA, Research and Secret Projects
  • Yesterday (Wednesday, 3rd December) I had the honour of being invited along to Trinity College, Dublin, to give a slightly modified version of the presentation I gave at the recent Drupal Ireland Meetup on TA-DA (our mobile browser test suite) - which I've attached to the end of this post.
  • Design Patterns - Posted by jonarne 1 year 39 weeks ago
  • One web 2.0 - social edition
  • I bet I am not the only one wondering what Nokia was going to announce yesterday... In addition to the N97, Nokia Messaging was the big news. Put short, Nokia Messaging is enabling a bunch of IM-like services on the phone. In my mind this is an important change in the traditional mind pattern device manufacturers, and MNOs, have had until the iPhone.
  • Best Practices - Posted by ruadhan 1 year 40 weeks ago
  • The Best and Worst of the Mobile Web
  • Our sister-site mobiThinking.com has just published an eBook on "The Best and Worst of the Mobile Web". In it there are examples of winners and sinners, those who do it right, and those not quite right, and why! So now might be a good time to fire up your mobile browser and let us know if you agree.
  • Community - Posted by James Pearce 1 year 40 weeks ago
  • Hotbeds of Mobile Development
  • When you register for mobiForge, we ask you a few optional questions about who and where you are. This is not because we are running some elaborate email spam scheme, but basically because we like graphs. In particular, we ask you to provide your city and country. We thought we'd let you know where the hot beds of mobile development are around the world - at least for a sample of the 22,000 users who've registered on mobiForge.
  • Browsers - Posted by atrasatti 1 year 41 weeks ago
  • DeviceAtlas Data Explorer filtered by year of release
  • About 2 weeks ago we introduced something that we thought was very exciting, a new way to visualise data in DeviceAtlas, we called it Data Explorer. If you missed it, you can watch a screencast that explains how it works and gives a few ideas of what you can do, see Introducing the new DeviceAtlas Data Explorer.
  • Community - Posted by ruadhan 1 year 41 weeks ago
  • Vote for your favorite mobile app
  • Last week I posted that it was nomination time for the Open Web Awards by Mashable. Nominations have closed, and it's time to get voting. I've always wanted to say this, maybe wearing a tuxedo and under bright lights, but here goes: And the nominations in the category for best mobile application are...
  • Usability - Posted by atrasatti 1 year 42 weeks ago
  • Mobile Device UI trends
  • I was reading on Techcrunch a rumor about the new UI design for Windows Mobile 6.5. See the article, Rumor: Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshot shenanigans. I quickly followed up with a blog post on my personal blog, Windows Mobile 6.5 and Zumobi, but while that writing that quick post made me think about the new UIs and trends in mobile devices.