News & Comment
Content Transformation and “The Manifesto”
March 26, 2008, by Jo Rabin
There has been a lot of discussion in recent days on Luca's Manifesto. I just wanted to note that the W3C Content Transformation Task Force is working with industry players to find a resolution to this difficult problem. The goal is to reconcile the objectives of those various players particularly "to help provide users with an acceptable experience of the Web on Mobile". I represent dotMobi on the Task Force and in fact am the editor of the Guidelines that the Task Force is producing... Read More
Responsible Reformatting
March 25, 2008, by jonarne
We have recently seen that several mobile network operators have implemented what's become known as "content transcoders" or "transcoding proxies". Vodafone and TeliaSonera are among them. The idea is to make the desktop web available on mobile devices. One of the side effects we have seen is that, put simply, already mobile optimized portals are also reformatted, destroying a carefully designed mobile user experience. Luca Passani has taken the initiative to clarify the impact of transcoders and suggest some basic rules for transcoding proxies to follow in this developer manifesto... Read More
6 mobile stats you might not know
March 21, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
A quick glance at some Irish & European data just published by Comreg, Ireland's Communications Regulator, in its latest report: 140% - the level of mobile penetration in Italy & Greece (EU high), compared with 88% in France (EU low), and EU average of 108%... Read More
DeviceAtlas version 1.0.2
March 19, 2008, by atrasatti
Updates keep flowing to the production server as we add new features to the database and to the web interface. Today we have released a few updates that you can see on our website. A lot have asked for more detailed information about properties and while we thought most names would be self-explanatory it is always good to have a quick handbook to look at... Read More
A snapshot of the mobile web
March 19, 2008, by ronan
One of the nice side effects of crawling the mobile web for find.mobi is that we have a good idea of exactly what is out there. One thing that find.mobi does which is a bit different to the other mobile search engines out there is that it captures screenshots of mobile web pages as it crawls. As an experiment (with a tip of the hat to Russell Beattie's annual phone model images 2008 2005 2004) I pulled a selection of find.mobi's thumbnails and assembled them into a contact sheet. Preview below, higher resolution versions in page attachments... Read More
