Mobile!
Intersquash Allows you to turn your website RSS feed into an iPhone Web App in minutes. This is something Garrett and I discussed doing for Leaflets 2.0 but decided against it (at least for now).
While I love the idea, as RSS is a great basis for a quick iPhone Web App (and how we built Leaflets), I’m not keen on using iUI to mimic the iPhone UI.
If you want to build and host your own iPhone Web App, feel free to download my sample code from last weeks Mobile 2.0, which uses SimplePie to fetch RSS/XML and use as your data source for an easy iPhone Web App.
Out of curiosity, I’d love to know if you are into a tool like this. Please fill out this 2-second survey and let us know if you’d like us to incorporate making your own Web Apps in Leaflets 2.0.
PhoneScoop is hands on with the T-Mobile G1 Hands-On plus screen shots galore.
White space spectrum has the greatest potential to expand and improve wireless communications when paired with mobile devices, like laptops and cell phones.
Megan Tady
from Wireless to the People
Obama Will Announce His Running Mate By Text Message
Sometime between now and the convention, Barack Obama, just like the cool kid in study hall, will surreptitiously send a text message announcing his pick for vice president.
A brilliant idea for the progressive candidate. Not only will it reduce the cost of increasing voter turnout, but it allows Obama to develop powerful one-to-one messaging with potential voters.
Leveraging the mobile phone, an intensely personal device, will enable Obama to pull himself inside our social spheres and make us feel connected to him, as if we have a personal relationship with the candidate.
If anything this has been Obama strength as a campaigner to make us feel like he is talking directly to us during his stump speeches. Mobile is the perfect medium to take it to the next step.
I hope it works… not just as a mobile guy, but for the rebuilding of the country.
Wired: Google's Open Source Android Phone Will Free the Wireless Web
More on Android, how it is different and why it’s important.
From the article:
“You have a significant challenge in mobile, in that the screens are much smaller, so you can’t display nearly as much advertising or take as much space,” Google cofounder Sergey Brin told Wall Street analysts on a recent conference call. “On the other hand, you have much more relevant and timely information, like what location the person might be in, so on balance that leaves me quite optimistic.”
.net Magazine: Convert your site to mobile
Wow, looks like it is a double press day.
The cover article I wrote for the latest issue of .net magazine, entitled “Convert your site to mobile” is now available on newsstands.
Go buy it now!
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Last week I had the great fortune to chat with Phil Windley and Scott Lemon of IT Conversations about the iPhone 3G, the concept of Mobile 2.0 and the future of mobility.
I’m normally so focused on trying to teach people, or telling them how to take your site mobile. It was nice to just have a casual chat. Thanks a lot Phil & Scott!
Ten highest-radiation cell phones
Note, that the iPhone isn’t in the top ten. Maybe the geeks will inherit the earth. In case you are wondering its SAR number is 0.974.
dotMobi acquires Mowser
There were those who claimed that the mobile web was dead after Russ and Mike shut the doors on Mowser, a mobile web content adaptation service.
I had a lengthy article planned of all the reasons why the mobile web is not dead, why services like Mowser are pretty important today, tomorrow and in the foreseeable future. With dotMobi picking up the assets and breathing new life into the product, I feel that Russ, Mike and others like me, that believe in the future of the mobile web, are vindicated.
We need tools like Mowser!
As big of an advocate as I am about the iPhone and how the concept of Mobile 2.0 it will change the mobile web (and the larger web in general), it doesn’t change that adaptation will always be a problem. Sure desktop grade browsers will make there way to all mobile devices soon, but that won’t mean adaptation will go away entirely, just that it will be redefined.
I do believe that the days of ‘content’ adaptation are numbered, but the days of ‘context’ adaptation are just beginning. It will be tools like Mowser that help pave the way.
I applaud James, Ronin and others over at dotMobi for seeing the big picture and investing into Mowser and helping take it to the next level. And I have huge respect for Russ and Mike for sticking with it for as long as they did. It helps reinforce my belief that if you are truly passionate about something and pour your heart into it, that you will be rewarded in the long run.
Mobile Internet For Dummies
You know that a technology has reached a milestone when a Dummies book gets published. Finally the Mobile Web has reached this milestone with the publishing of Mobile Internet for Dummies.
This is a pretty crucial milestone for the mobile web to have such an important series go to print with a mobile book, which to date hasn’t produced huge sales according to most publishers I’ve talked to.
Hopefully good sales will produce more titles on the topic. Make sure you go buy your copy! Come on its only $15.
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