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Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:22:44 +0000

[...] set-up infrastructure *cough twitter status* and a revenue model that pays for these services. From Go Mobile Young Millennials, Go Mobile – GigaOM & Virtual Worlds News: In-Stat: 230M Mobile Social Networkers by [...]

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By: Mobile Web Usage Is Swelling, Entrepreneurs: Take Notice » The StartUp Blog at PartnerUp

Wed, 28 May 2008 17:49:28 +0000

[...] the Internet and check their emails on the go. Just yesterday I read an article on GigaOM called “Go Mobile Young Millenials, Go Mobile,” which highlights a report on mobile Web usage for social networking purposes by those ages [...]

By: Jan-Joost Kraal

Jan-Joost Kraal — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:10:52 +0000

@ Liz
Working for a company that offers it’s service both on the web and on the mobile, I have quite a strong opinion on this:
A mobile website should not have a .mobi extension. Users don’t understand this.
The normal .com website should recognise the device/browser and serve the appropriate format.
And since not only the device, but also the environment and the need for information is different on a mobile phone, there should definitely be separate mobile websites.
But it might take a while :-) Mobile is popular, but it’s also extra work to make a mobile website.

By: Viooli

Viooli — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:40:19 +0000

It definitely will be interesting to see where the mobile web is heading to.

By: john@pm

john@pm — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:37:47 +0000

Stacey, this really got me thinking!

I don’t ever see the ‘mobile web’ as we know it (monthly data plans, tiny text sites, and fees) taking off. It may be an information service, but it’s certainly not the internet.

I think your comparing the floundering mobile web to how TV doesn’t effectivley interface with the PC is great: it’s not a difficult problem to solve technically, but the closed systems make more money, just like how a coke costs 89 cents at a gas station and $3.00 inside a theme park.

At this point the iPod Touch/iPhone are the only significant mobile devices that actually make using the internet practical (read: with WiFi and Webkit.)

It seems the mere fact that we designate the ‘mobile’ web as such shows that we are aware of its inferiority to the ‘regular’ web. That’s why I don’t think we’ll see the mobile web getting any traction until it’s cheap, unrestricted, and useable; at which point we won’t really need to call it the ‘mobile’ web at all.

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:32:25 +0000

It’ll be interesting to see whether .mobi websites are fully developed or mobile phone users will just be diverted to a mobile-compatible version of a regular .com website. If .mobis are developed there will be a big demand for web developers who can come up with interesting, eye-catching, usable mobile websites.