- Tools - Posted by James Pearce on 29 Apr 2008
Follow mobiForge on Twitter- Having trouble keeping up with all the new articles and forum posts on mobiForge? If you're a Twitter user, here's another alternative for doing so. Simply follow the Twitter user "mobiforge" and you will be subscribed to all our new blog, article, and forum posts.
- Tools - Posted by ronan on 28 Apr 2008
Mobile search: what are people looking for?- One of the great things about running a mobile search engine (find.mobi ) is that it gives you a direct line of sight into the behaviour of normal users, and their expectations of what is available on the mobile web. One interesting insight we've gained from find.mobi is that the majority of search phrases are navigational in nature.
- Messaging - Posted by ronan on 25 Apr 2008
- MMS is a usability disaster
- I can't remember the last time I got an MMS message. Ewan of SMS Text News reminds me why: MMS: Still a piece of shit
- Authoring - Posted by Ronan_Mandel on 24 Apr 2008
Open Sesame- There’s lots of chatter about ‘openness’ in the mobile space recently. If you’re listening to the media, you’re hearing it both on the handset and the network side. We’ve got the 700MHz spectrum auction that’s just wrapped up in which Google so cleverly forced the ‘openness’ provision to kick in. Verizon, the largest operator in the US (and the big winner in the C block that’s now required to be ‘open’), making statements that they’re going to allow ‘any device’ on their network.
- Tools - Posted by ruadhan on 23 Apr 2008
Dev.mobi update- A quick heads up on a couple of changes to dev.mobi. We've been talking about upgrading the forums for a while, and well, we've done it (at least in part, consider it a work in progress). We've tidied up the thread layout a bit. In particular we now display your user stats: when you joined, how many times you've posted, and whether you are online or not.
- Tools - Posted by atrasatti on 22 Apr 2008
DeviceAtlas 1.1.1- Full list of devices is now updated and shows vendor logos Device list is visible to users who have not yet logged in Volantis data is being imported, about 2000 devices are already mapped to existing devices and you will see our total number of devices growing quickly in the next few days. We should reach the 5000 mark! Some users reported issues with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, these should be fixed now
- Content Adaptation - Posted by atrasatti on 21 Apr 2008
- DeviceAtlas implementation of the W3C Simple API Recommendation
- It is almost midnight in Dublin, almost 1am in Italy and we are still busy preparing what we think is a very exciting release. We have worked hard in the W3C in the last year together with some of the greatest players of this industry (Fundacion CTIC, MobileAware, Volantis, Telefonica, to name a few) and the results are eventually coming.
- Usability - Posted by ronan on 16 Apr 2008
- Viewports on mobile browsers
- Is it any wonder that users of low-end phones don't browse the web that much? Take a look at this photo of a Nokia 6131 in the default web browser. By my very crude calculations, the percentage of the overall screen area actually used by the browser to display useful content is a mere 65%. Why the gaping void between the bottom of the viewport and the menu? Why throw away so many pixels for the scrollbar? By the way, the browser was configured to use "Full" screen size.
- Tools - Posted by johnl on 15 Apr 2008
Ready.mobi Roadmap - we want your feedback!- Thousands of you have used ready.mobi to test your sites, so we are interested to capture any feedback you may have, and particularly any new capabilities you would like to see. The roadmap for the remainder of the year is being completed, so this is an opportunity to influence the content - let us know what you think.
- Tools - Posted by daniel.hunt on 14 Apr 2008
10 things about dev.mobi, RSS Feeds, Subscriptions and Tracking- I've put together a list of the 10 best things I can list about dev.mobi. Its hardly exhaustive, and there are plenty more that I could add in, but I didn't like the title "42 things you should know about dev.mobi". It just doesn't have the same 'ring' about it.
