News & Comment
Sharing the Love: Introducing the ilovemobileweb Awards
August 15, 2008, by VanceMan
A while back, you may remember us talking about the ilovemobileweb initiative. As the next step of proving how much we love mobile web, we're giving awards to the best of the best .mobi sites as part of the Informa Telecoms & Media / dotMobi Advisory Group's Mobile Web Europe 2008 event... Read More
A Three Step Guide to Usability on the Mobile Web
August 15, 2008, by mobiThinking
Designing mobile sites is a different kind of web design. Much like your first experience of designing for the desktop web, it can be both exhilarating and daunting in equal measures. So many possibilities, yet so many usability restrictions... Read More
JWT turns mobile marketing on its head
August 8, 2008, by mobiThinking
You’d think one of the world’s largest ‘traditional’ advertising agencies would take a traditional approach to mobile marketing. You’d be wrong. JWT is the largest advertising agency by revenue in the United States and the fourth largest agency network worldwide but its approach to mobile is anything but cautious. In this thought-provoking interview, we talk to Jeff Stier, Senior Partner Director of Business Growth North America at JWT and President of JWT’s innovation lab and incubator, Sector 64... Read More
FlashLite Version Detection update
August 8, 2008, by Ronan_Mandel
So if you’re an active FlashLite or Flash developer who keeps an eye on the mobile space, you may have noticed something that happened last month with one of the web’s largest Flash delivery site: YouTube. The change was around the mechanism they used for version detection, and draws attention back to a topic close to the heart of every mobile developer (flash or otherwise): user-agent detection... Read More
News from W3C: Best Practices, mobileOK and Content Transformation Guidelines Progress
August 7, 2008, by Jo Rabin
Last week, W3C announced the final step of approval of the Mobile Web Best Practices as a W3C Recommendation. It's taken quite a while for it to progress to this point, mainly because it had a dependency on HTML Basic 1.1 the version of XHTML that unifies OMA XHTML-MP and W3C work... Read More
