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  • 07.30.08
    W3C Releases Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 on the go | (0)
    The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has issued the first version of their recommended mobile web best practices. This document is meant to help developers agree on the basic principles of designing a page for mobile devices. This is the first step toward providing a baseline for web developers and mobile browsers to create better and more consistent mobile web experiences for users. Many of these guidelines seem like good common sense, which I think is often the mark of a well-written standard. However, it can be hard to keep 60 or so separate guidelines in mind while coding an application. ...
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  • 07.18.08
    iPhone Users Only a Small Percentage of Overall Mobile Web iPhone | (1)
    It seems that all we hear about in terms of the mobile web lately is about how the iPhone is responsible for fueling the growth of the mobile web. This could be because of the recent release of the iPhone 3G or the high percentage of Apple users logging onto the mobile web, but are they ruling the roost quite yet? Comscore's recent report found over 80% of European iPhone owners were regular mobile web users as compared to about 30% of overall Smartphone users that also use their data packages. This could be due to the vastly improved mobile ...
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  • 07.09.08
    Mobile Web User Experience Still Has a Long Way To Go on the go | (2)
    A newly released global study shows users' overwhelming dissatisfaction with their mobile web user experience. In fact, the study shows that "Nearly 50 percent of respondents said that a poor experience on their initial use of the mobile Web made them "reluctant to access" either the site - or the Internet in general - on their mobile phones again." The study was conducted by AKQA and dotMobi, who is the registrar for the .mobi top level domains. The primary reasons cited for poor mobile web experiences are poor site display and layout. There are really 2 factors at work here: Poor ...
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  • 07.08.08
    Bring the Mobile Web Grocery Shopping With Zeer on the go | (0)
    Zeer provides community product reviews and grocery list services to help make grocery shopping easier. You can find product reviews and advice on going green or finding the best organic foods, create a shopping list and print it out before you hit the store. Today, Zeer announced their mobile web interface so that you can access product reviews and your shopping list from the mobile web. It's a really great use of the mobile web to allow you to bring your grocery list with you on your phone. Their mobile interface is minimal enough to load quickly on any phone ...
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  • 07.01.08
    Revamped Google Reader for iPhone Offers Full Features on the go | (0)
    Today Google announced a brand new mobile interface for Google Reader that has been optimized for the iPhone. The new Google Reader for iPhone is full featured and offers an excellent example of the capability of the mobile web far beyond the simple interfaces that we often see today. If you have a Google Reader account, all you have to do is go to http://www.google.com/reader/i/ to start using it. The main difference is that the reader starts out in a list view that tells you the title of the post, which feed it's from and the first few words of the ...
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  • 06.30.08
    Open Table Opens Doors to the Mobile Web on the go | (1)
    Open Table is an online reservation system that allows restaurants to offer their guests the option of finding and reserving a table from their web site. To date, their site has seated over 70 million guests across the US in major markets like NYC, San Francisco and my backyard, Washington DC. They're just announced the release of their mobile web interface for finding an open table on the go. How It Works Just point your mobile browser to http://mobile.opentable.com to get started. From there you can choose your City and general region. The Neighborhood field isn't readily apparent, but you can use ...
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  • 06.27.08
    Digital Media Conference Panel on the Future of Mobile Music on the go | (0)
    This panel of mobile insiders will discuss the latest developments in the mobile music market, including mobile marketing initiatives, portable devices and other mobile-related innovations and revenue-generating opportunities such as music videos, full-track streaming of music, ring tones and “ringbacks.” What mobile innovations are having the greatest impact on the way consumers discover, purchase and listen to music, network with fans and artists, learn about concert information and release dates from their favorite artists and interact during the concert experience? What are the developments that will shape the industry in the years to come? How is the experience? Ted Cohen of ...
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