Tag: dotMobi

.mobi case studies

This article was actually published before the job posting that I mentioned earlier, but I thought I should write about it anyway.

.mobi is looking for case studies, companies or projects that have developed a mobile site, faced particular problems and solved them.

If you are looking for a little of extra visibility for your project it’s probably a good chance. Check out the .mobi blog posting, Wanna be a .mobi case study?

Community resources for the mobile

I wanted to recap a few valuable resources that developers can find on the web to help them start or improve their skills to produce sites for mobile devices.

My favourite, of course, is The Wireless FAQ, simply because of the time it took to bring it to a Wiki. I think it has done a big step ahead since that day and thanks to the wiki approach we have been able to add a number of resources about very important topics such as DRM, Video downloads, multimedia content delivery and more.

On the same track you might also want to check out the Techniques for the Best Practices, originally developed and maintained by the W3C. It’s another Wiki site and it’s about the Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 that the group has produced. The Wiki was chosen because the group is looking for user contributions. If you are interested you should go, read, ask questions and add content, if you feel like willing to share with the W3C community.

A more specialized site, maintained by Barbara Ballard of little spring design inc, is Mobile User Interface Design Patterns. The title says it all, Barbara is a super-expert of User Interfaces for the mobile. She has already created a lot of valuable content and while it’s less technical from a certain point of view as compared to the other two sites, it actually provides great guidance about the general UI and presentation that you should use in your mobile site. Barbara’s Wiki is certainly something to read and put in practice in your mobile sites, maybe using some techniques suggested in the other 2 sites previously named.

The last site I wanted to remind to the community is mTLD‘s developers site. The site does not have a Wiki, but rather a forum, blogs and a few selected articles, all about the mobile. The site is relatively new and the administrators are working hard to provide more and more resources every day. It is obviously a different approach, the site aims to provide all the guidance and help to develop mobile sites, also linking to external resources, of course. It’s another great place to start from and to ask questions if there’s something you can’t do or is not clear. You can reach it at dev.mobi. The site can be visited both from your desktop computer or on the move.

More WURFL jobs

I have written in the past about a job posting in which WURFL was a reason of preference (you can read about it in WURFL means real money).

Now James Pearce, the new CTO of mTLD, has posted a message on the developers’ site blog. .mobi is seeking developers that know WURFL, that have experience with adaptation, mobile sites and have done something outstanding.

If you think you fit or are interested in working with .mobi, you should check out this post, Technical genius sought.

new CTO for .mobi

Rumors and news run very quickly on the net. I was about to send an email to James to say congratulations and realized that all I have is his “now old address” at ArgoGroup.

So here’s my congratulations message, broadcast directly on the web.

Congratulations to James Pearce (Tripleodeon is his blog), who has just become the new CTO of mTLD.

I have known James for 5 years, I’d say. We had the pleasure (or at least *I* did) of exchanging e-mails both privately and on wmlprogramming for a long time. While his company, Argogroup, has had a device database for years and they had their own testing house, WURFL and mobile development has always been an open argument of discussion.
We met in person about 1 year ago, I’d say. Meeting in person with someone you have “talked” to for years, but only through internet is always strange. Meeting with James has been a pleasure. We often found ourselves thinking the same way so I have a very good feeling about his new position and I am confident that mTLD has chosen a very experienced person who has been around since day 0 of mobiles.

.mobi developers’ site

mTLD (.mobi global registry) has quietly launched the developers’ site.

I have been waiting for this for a long time. I have been talking and chatting with Ronan Cremin and Jo Rabin (not to mention the activity in the W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative) for quite a few months. I kept hearing of features and contents they were developing for the developers. They made me dream about all the cool contents, but never let me put my hands on them.

And here it comes, it’s alive! (listen to the sound from Young Frankenstein). The site is free to use, this means that developers can benefit from all the contents they put (and will continue putting) on the site even if they don’t own a .mobi domain.

dev.mobi is now real. Feel free to register, browse, lurk and use the forums, of course.

Congratulations to Martin Kindler, a wmlprogramming member for the very good article on typo3 made mobile-friendly.