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User Tracking, Sessions and Cookies
July 17, 2007, by atrasatti
User tracking is a very important feature for any web site whether it's for desktop computers, mobile devices, set-top boxes or anything else. When a user visits your site you want to know how long his visit lasted, which contents he visited, what navigation path was followed and so on. This is functionality we have become used to having in most, if not all the web sites. Tracking can be used for many different reasons - what we are going to cover here is focused on navigation sessions... Read More
dotMobi’s mobile phone database, what is this?
July 13, 2007, by atrasatti
You might have read the recent press release from dotMobi about the launch of a global mobile phone database. The press release also mentions that I have been appointed as Director of Device Initiatives and this means that I will be in charge of the project, starting from the design and down to the development and launch as a public service. In the last few years I have made some good experience in device databases with WURFL and worked with some first class people in the W3C's DDWG. dotMobi seemed like the perfect place to start a whole new adventure to create a new and innovative device database. I have all the experience of the open-source community and the will to make a first class product that can satisfy the small shops and the enterprises, dotMobi is the right place to try to achieve this huge task... Read More
Andrea Trasatti has joined dotMobi
July 11, 2007, by James Pearce
I'm really pleased to tell you that Andrea Trasatti has joined dotMobi as Director of Device Initiatives.For those of you that don't know him, Andrea is an esteemed member of the mobile blogosphere and development community. He's an invited expert in the W3C's Mobile Web Initative, and has a career background in mobile content and analysis.Oh, and did I mention he was one of the founders of the WURFL project?... Read More
Mobile internet users in India outnumber PC internet users 3 to 1
July 9, 2007, by ronan
There was an interesting article in India's Economic Times over the weekend that confirms what a lot of people know already: mobile web is fast becoming the primary means of accessing the web for many people, specially in developing nations. India has 9 million internet subscribers against 31 million mobile internet users who use the mobile internet "to read and reply to mails, download content and for online transactions". About 54% of new handsets sold in 2006 were internet-enabled according to the same report... Read More
Ready.mobi v1.1
July 9, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
We've been very busy working on this one, and we can finally unveil Ready.mobi v1.1. Our testing tool has had a major upgrade in version 1.1: no more page-by-page testing! You can now test a whole site with a click of a button. Want to get your hands on this? Then read on... Read More
Certification materials
July 6, 2007, by admin
There is a zip file attached to this page that contains a set of resources that may be used ONLY by certified developers on their web sites. This is a set of images and PDF files that can be used to market the fact that you are a certified dotMobi developer... Read More
Get Rich Slowly or, Mobile Advertising: how to monetize your mobile site, Part 2
July 5, 2007, by admin
As promised in our previous feature (Mobile advertising: how to monetize your mobile site) we're following up our experiments with some findings. As you may recall from part I of this article, rather than talking about mobile advertising in theory, we decided to actually try it out on mobiForge to see how well it works in practice... Read More
DotMobi Email Guide published
July 3, 2007, by ronan
We've just published the 1.0 Final version of the dotMobi Email Guide. This is a set of guidelines for service providers that wish to run email services suitable for use on mobile devices. More specifically, this guide lists one mandatory rule and a number of optional best practices for publicly available email services running on a .mobi domain. This guide was produced by us, working closely with our investor companies, who know a thing or two about email on mobile... Read More
The Nokia Web Browser Design Guide
June 28, 2007, by admin
Not exactly news as such, but I got around to reading this confusingly named guide only today (to be clear, it's about designing web content for mobile rather than designing web browsers). The guide says it is to "help developers see what kinds of issues to consider as their audience begins to use more and more mobile clients to access Web content" but actually it is more about designing content that works well with the new browser that's shipped on the latest S60 phones... Read More
Apple iPhone passes muster
June 27, 2007, by ronan
So it looks like the initial reviews of the iPhone are mostly positive, with David Pogue and Walt Mossberg both giving it a thumbs up. My two biggest reservations about the device seem to be mostly non-issues:... Read More
