With Twitter no longer sending SMS updates except in India, Canada and the US there has to be a lot of interest in other ways to get updates on a mobile phone. As long as you have unlimited or cheap data you can easily follow your Twitter friends using the mobile web. Twitter has a mobile web based client at m.twitter.com. It’s rather bare bones but Twitter has an API and third parties have used it to create rich mobile … Continue reading
Last week at both Mobile Web Megatrends and the CTIA Mobile Jam Session a major theme using the browser and mobile web technologies as a replacement for Java, BREW and native mobile applications. Many of the developers attending both events who have been doing Java and native applications expressed frustration with the economic and technical inefficiencies of the mobile application model. They mentioned platform fragmentation that requires hundreds of versions of an app to support even a fraction of the market, … Continue reading
Here in San Francisco, the local daily paper is the San Francisco Chronicle. While it’s not a journalistic giant like The New York Times or Washington Post, it’s still a pretty good read, with some of my favorite political columnists (Willie Brown, Matier and Ross) and the best local news, sports and business coverage in the San Francisco Bay Area. One thing about the Chronicle though is that it’s never been very easy to get it on a mobile device. … Continue reading
Germany’s Netbiscuits seems to be one of the more prolific and successful mobile web development shops. This year they built and are hosting three Yahoo Sports sites, March Madness, Beijing Olympics and the new Fantasy Football site launched last week. In addition to Yahoo, Netbiscuits is used by eBay, AOL, Nokia, Land Rover, Germany’s BILD newspaper and Spiegel magazine, European TV conglomerate RTL, Japan’s toy and game company Konami and Sixt (a big European car rental company), 80% of the … Continue reading
Along with oneConnect and extending the BluePrint widget platform to allow the creation of standalone mobile apps and site Yahoo made another announcement at CTIA. It’s the mobile edition of Yahoo Fantasy Football (m.yahoo.com/fantasy). Fantasy sports leagues have a huge following around the world and especially in North America. The basic idea is that you form a league with your friends. Each participant owns one or more teams. The league holds a draft where each owner picks players for his … Continue reading
I had a long talk with dotMobi‘s Paul Nerger at CTIA earlier this week. Paul is VP of Advanced Services and Applications which means he works with all the cool stuff that dotMobi is doing to help developers and publishers build better mobile sites more quickly and easily. He filled me in on what’s happening at dotMobi which is really quite a lot. This coming Monday, Sept 15th, the developer portal dev.mobi, which hosts developer forums, the devMobi blog and … Continue reading
Today was the last day of CTIA and Caroline Lewko of Wireless industry Partnership (WIP) hosted a Mobile Jam Session for Developers. Caroline is getting famous for these events which she also threw this year at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and at CTIA in Las Vegas. I was at today’s event and I have to say the praise is well deserved. The Mobile Jam Session’s motto was “No ppt, no ties, no panels” which makes it sound sort of … Continue reading
I ran into Peperonity’s Sanda Freilingsdorf at CTIA and quized her on what was new at the site I once naively called “The Biggest Mobile Social Network You Never Heard Of.” It turns out that there’s a lot that’s new at Peperonity since I last covered them nine months ago. The following are new features I discovered: A brand new mobile site design which was launched this week for the CTIA show. As you can see in the screenshot above the site … Continue reading