{"id":599,"date":"2008-07-20T20:01:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T03:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=599"},"modified":"2008-07-20T20:01:51","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T03:01:51","slug":"mashable-goes-mobile-with-a-mashup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/599\/","title":{"rendered":"Mashable Goes Mobile – With a MashUp"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MashablePeter Cashmore’s Mashable<\/a> is a high-traffic news blog covering social networking, web 2.0 and mobile.<\/p>\n

I suspect the site’s name comes from “Mashup” – combing two (or more) web services to create a new site or service, think of TwitterVision<\/a> which combines Ttwitter feeds with the Google Maps API to show Twitter updates as text bubbles on a world map.\u00a0 Mashable does cover mashups, especially ones involving popular social networks. But Mashable is a lot more than mashups, with 20 or more news items a day,\u00a0 a MarketPlace<\/em> section for job postings and Web 2.0 related services for sale or wanted and an Invites<\/em> page\u00a0of invites codes\u00a0for startups in closed beta.\u00a0 There’s also a daily podcast, usually with the founder or\u00a0CEO of a hot startup. A popular feature of Mashable is Mashcodes <\/em>a repository of free MySpace<\/em> themes, games and plugins.\u00a0 And Mashable itself is a social network, with personal profiles, photo pages, \u00a0friends, status updates and messaging.<\/p>\n

On July 10th, Mashable launched a mobile edition at m.mashable.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Unsurprisingly it’s a mashup, using MoFuse<\/a> to generate a mobile version of from RSS feeds of the Mashable’s News, MarketPlace<\/em> and Invites<\/em> sections.\u00a0 MoFuse is used by a number of sites including ReadBurner<\/a> and MobileActive<\/em> (review<\/a>). It’s also one of the services I reviewed in 4 Easy Ways to Make your Blog Mobile Friendly<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Since I wrote that piece, MoFuse has added a nicely formatted iPhone version. Another recent enhancement is image resizing,\u00a0 images are reformatted to a maximum size equal to the phone’s screen width.\u00a0 That should make MoFuse pages compatible with more phones, but I’d like to see MoFuse implement page splitting too.\u00a0 As it is, the page delivered to mobile can still be quite large,\u00a0\u00a0one of the\u00a0\u00a0news items on Mashable that I visited \u00a0contained 17 KB of text plus 41 KB of images. That’s\u00a0 no problem for any Smartphone and many feature phones, but too big to display completely on something like a RAZR V3.\u00a0 The W3C and dotMobi suggest a maximum of 20 KB text (10 KB markup plus another 10 KB of images) for pages intended to work on any phone.<\/p>\n

Mobile Mashable is a subset of the full site but a fairly complete one, offering the full content of\u00a0 the news, marketplace and invites sections.\u00a0 If you want to get to the full site and your browser can handle it, Mashable doesn’t force mobile browsers to the mobile version, although if you use a PC browser to visit m.mashable.com, MoFuse will display the content in a mobile widget.<\/p>\n

Mobile Link<\/em>: m.mashable.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Ratings<\/em>: Content: \"*\"\"*\"\"*\"\"*\"\"*\" Usability: \"X\"\"X\"\"X\"\"X\"\"_\"<\/p>\n

Related:<\/em>
\nWap Review -Mobilize Your Blog With MoFuse<\/a>
\nWap Review – Mobile Mashups Go Mainstream<\/a>
\nMobile Site Directory – Technology\/Tech News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter Cashmore’s Mashable is a high-traffic news blog covering social networking, web 2.0 and mobile. I suspect the site’s name comes from “Mashup” – combing two (or more) web services to create a new site or service, think of TwitterVision which combines Ttwitter feeds with the Google Maps API to show Twitter updates as text bubbles on a world map.\u00a0 Mashable does cover mashups, especially ones involving popular social networks. But Mashable is a lot more than mashups, with 20 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[161,162,163,1400],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}