Mobile ad UX: how to use ads and alienate people
JavaScript server-side rendering with device detection
Find.mobi goes beta
September 28, 2007, by ronan
Those of you who keep a close eye on your web server access logs may have been wondering what the botmobi crawler was doing sniffing about your site. Well now you know: we're pleased to announce that find.mobi is now in public beta... Read More
Content Transformation Addendum to Web Browsing Style Guide
September 28, 2007, by Jo Rabin
If you have taken the time and trouble to create a "made for mobile" experience, the last thing you would want is that this gets altered by a third party. We've published a consultative document that suggests ways for you to stop that happening... Read More
Setting HTTP headers to advise transcoding proxies
September 28, 2007, by atrasatti
If you want to add specific HTTP headers to your pages and applications there are many different solutions depending on your environment. There are a lot of reasons why you would want to add an HTTP header, but in this article I want to use as an example a couple of headers that will help you declare that your content should not be transformed and, if you do content adaptation, which headers you use to detect the browser and the device... Read More
Mobile Web 2.0 Conference, London, 18-19 September
September 28, 2007, by Jo Rabin
A glorious blue sky over Lord's Cricket Ground was the setting for the opening of the Informa Mobile Web 2.0 conference in London, Tuesday and Wednesday last week. Notably also the week of the Apple iPhone UK launch announcement and the day of Sam Sethi's birthday (not sure which is more notable) this was a gathering of a number of well known figures in the mobile space to talk about what seems to be the topic of the season - you could spend the rest of the Autumn attending these events, which perversely have sprung up like Spring flowers... Read More
Categories of properties in a device DB
September 21, 2007, by atrasatti
There are some properties that are meaningful for many aspects of a mobile device. An image format can be supported or not supported in the browser, in the MMS client, can be used as a wallpaper and so on... Read More
Mobile advertising for the greater good
September 18, 2007, by jonarne
Mobile advertising is currently a buzz word, here on mobiForge and everywhere else. Hence, the meaning of the term "mobile marketing" has many interpretations. I'll narrow it down to just talk about banner ads on mobile portals for now... Lots of articles have been written , Gartner finds it interesting and lots of commercial companies are entering this business. Of course we all hate flashing,blinking,rotating and noisy ads on web sites, and I fear that we're gonna hate it even more on our mobile phones! But not yet... Before we start to hate them, we will actually find them relevant... Read More
Cooking the mobile web
September 14, 2007, by Cyril
Ingredients: Handsets, Operators efforts, Content and Educated public.Instructions:Prepare your handsets until most of them are technically ready to display and browse mobile content.While this step is going in a good way, start the long process to shape mobile content, it must have a nice flavor of context relative.Last step you gently mix operators efforts to provide a cheap, fast and enthusiastic access. And don’t forget to pour some education on your public, so everybody will know that mobile web is cool, cheap and tasty!... Read More
Caveat validator, or DTD anyone?
September 7, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
A short time ago while playing around with markup validators I encountered an interesting problem. This problem has also been mentioned on the wmlprogramming list, but it's worthy of a bit more explanation. I received a validation error, and at first I thought the cause was bad XHTML markup. As I investigated however, I realised that every document with a particular DOCTYPE was encountering the same problem... Read More
Announcing ready.mobi v2.0
August 28, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
For those who haven't seen it yet, we've gone live with ready.mobi v2.0 (We were going to call v1.1, but the new features are so cool we figured it was worth bumping up to 2.0). Version 2.0 rocks. New features include... Read More
dotMobi is hiring engineers; in Dublin, Ireland
August 26, 2007, by James Pearce
We are currently expanding our development team. If you live in Dublin (or have the ability/permit and desire to do so!), and want to carve out a career at the epicentre of the mobile web, maybe we have the job for you.dotMobi is trying to help to shape the mobile web with a variety of software, industry and community projects. We can only do this with absolutely top-notch engineering gurus. You must have genius Java, PHP, MySQL and web skill. A strong mobile appreciation will help. Other talents useful too (like an a tolerance of our musical tastes in the office)... Read More
