Creating Mobile Web Sites with Google App Engine
May 29, 2008, by ronan
By now most people have heard of Google's App Engine (GAE). In case you haven't, GAE lets you run your own web applications on Google's extensive network of servers meaning that you can scale your application as traffic demands, with no hardware headaches, no machine provisioning, no LAMP stacks, no Apache configurations... Read More
Free developer event in San Francisco Bay Area this Friday
May 27, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Just a quick reminder about our developer event in the San Francisco Bay Area this Friday 30th May. If you are in the Bay Area, and fancy a FREE breakfast, followed by a FREE developer session, then pop on down to the Stanford Park Hotel in Menlo Park on Friday at 9am... Read More
Debunking Mobile Myths
May 26, 2008, by mobiThinking
The iLoop Mobile website has a nice page called Debunking Mobile Myths. Here’s their myth-list: The mobile channel is not effective for marketing... Read More
Make your mobile campaigns reach every user. Are your campaigns device-aware?
May 23, 2008, by mobiThinking
Mobile marketing isn’t rocket science. But there’s one thing you probably ought to know about: mobile websites and pages that look great on one device might crash and look awful on another. It’s a fact of life for mobile marketers but, as you’re about to see, there’s no need to panic. Device diversity: a marketing challenge... Read More
The worst practices of the mobile web, part II
May 23, 2008, by Cyril
A few months ago, I blogged about the worst mistakes I saw on mobile sites. Since this time I have visited and analysed plenty more mobile sites (so that my search crawler can process them better), and I have a few more offenders whose practices can make mobile browsing a nightmare... Read More
WebKit by any other name… or How I found a use for JavaScript
May 21, 2008, by Ronan_Mandel
I’ve been doing a great deal of thinking lately about JavaScript/ECMAScript and the mobile web. What I’ve been struggling with is the need or value for it when it comes to sites which are organically created for mobile. Sure there’s a need to support JavaScript as fully as possible for providing a ‘full web’ experience and managing existing content, but when it comes to designing for the mobile context, is there really value for it?... Read More
The mobile glass is half full
May 20, 2008, by mobiThinking
The people who develop mobile applications and websites used to only think about the limitations of the mobile device. Small screen. No proper keyboard. No mouse. Today, mobile developers and marketers have woken up to the idea that the mobile handset is not a disabled device, it’s a differently-abled device... Read More
dev.mobi is going on tour!
May 19, 2008, by pnerger
dev.mobi has grown to be a significant developer community for the mobile web but, for the most part, it's been an online experience. That is about to change with dev.mobi taking to the field with developer events in the San Francisco, New York, and London areas. This is your chance to meet some of the dotMobi people behind dev.mobi and our other product offerings. It is also a chance to meet other mobile developers that are part of the same dev.mobi community as you... Read More
Ten Mistakes in Mobile Web Marketing
May 15, 2008, by claireog
The dotMobi marketing arm - mobiThinking has just launched a free eBook called Ten Mistakes in Mobile Web Marketing. Even though the title of the eBook is clearly aimed at marketeers it is worth a read for everyone. The ideas behind good mobile web sites are simple but the execution isn't always so easy. Many of us are still thinking of mobile web sites as small versions of their PC-counterparts. That's simply the wrong approach. This and other pitfalls in mobile web marketing have been reviewed to produce this new, free eBook - Ten Mistakes in Mobile Web Marketing... Read More
Great new updates in DeviceAtlas 1.2
May 15, 2008, by atrasatti
What a week at dotMobi and we are still not done with the updates. In fact we just completed the update of DeviceAtlas to version 1.2 and there are quite a few changes... Read More
