.mobi Best written piece I've come across yet on the state of Mobile affairs

[izo-pod]

This author did a fine job of summing up what happened at the Mobile 2.0 conference (very thorough) held earlier in the month in San Francisco. It's quite interesting to see how "fractured" the mobile "ecosystem" is, with various platforms, browsers all vying for attention. Nokia it is seems is working on it's own browser (I didn't know that--cool). There appears to be a big push for "open standards" in the mobile market which includes .mobi as well as Opera---The author did mention the incompatablity issues quite frequently.

http://opengardensblog.futuretext.com/archives/2006/11/mobile20_great.html

The big thing which I took away from this article is the "genuiness" of the content at the convention. The convention was set up as a "grass roots" convention in that the sponsors didn't get a "speaking" slot. They wanted the hear the good, the bad, and the ugly without all the hyperbole.


NOTE: Irregardless of your preferred domain extension for the mobile web, the time to start planning to take advantage of Mobile 2.0 is now... Forget parking pages. With Mobile 2.0, you really are going to have to think outside the box. Only "mobile content" will do--it seems. Mobile users are going to want content they can use, which only requires a quick glance. Don't plan on any lengthy clicking or surfing

 

[newton]

Excellent read, thanks for posting this

 

[izo-pod]

A nice long read with a short mention of mobi with very little actual positive about the extension itself...just the standards that mTLD are trying to create.

Thanks for crapping in this thread. I thought for sure some worthwhile discussion could ensue. For your information, there wasn't anything negative said about .mobi either. If anything it reinforced the need for a standard in the development arena. .Mobi should do that, as well as .com, etc

Yep, I can see that (focused) mobile discussion site poping up any day now.

 

[GeoOwners]

:talk: we'll have intelligent conversation during and after the chat with .mobi guys

 

[iNod]

Nice attitude except I don't congratulate you on it, posts deleted.

- Steve

 

[mejcdj]

also, i apologize for adding to the fire... i just cant help but call out some of the trolls undercover.


there is a certain breed of people that attempt to troll and act interested at the same time... they do this by saying "i would like to learn more about..." or "i am very interested in...." and then whatever trolling statement they had prepared after their little disclaimer phrase..


i suggested in another thread that serious questions should be directed to the dot-mobi "ask a question" thread, since the CEO is making an appearence here at NamePros in 2 days.. this makes a lot more sense than asking people like me or anyone else that might not know exactly what they are talking about.

But big suprise, there are no new questions in that thread..

Honestly i wish more than 10 members had something intelligent to say.. i do not want purely a blind .mobi cheerleading session but it would be nice to have some intelligent conversation for a change.. it seems those threads get little attention though.. only the one-sided threads get heated enough and the debate is usually on a 3rd grade level..

I would like to see more conversation about this as well, but unfortunately we keep getting side-tracked by certain people who just have to continue to ask us to prove to THEM that what WE want to invest OUR time, money and efforts in, is worth it to THEM. I am sure I am not alone when I say enough is enough. I am thinking that may be the reason for fewer good posts on .mobi topics.

I am back to just reading on the subject and sitting on my hands a lot to avoid bad rep in this place. I have been here a long time and have never seen such behavior before and I am surprised its still tolerated.

Opinions are one thing, but when they are not asked for and certainly not wanted, they should not be pushed on us. We should be able to discuss what we want to discuss without interruptions which serve no purpose at all. If these people are not interested in the names, then they have the option to not buy them. But going into every one of our threads and carrying on as they do...as if anything they say will change our opinions, is ridiculous and a waste of time.

We all have the option to reg what we want to reg, develop what we want to develop, and have the right to a conversation about things that interest us without antagonistic interference.

Mejcdj

Nice attitude except I don't congratulate you on it, posts deleted.

- Steve

Thank you so much

Mejcdj

 

[izo-pod]

I would like to see more conversation about this as well, but unfortunately we keep getting side-tracked by certain people who just have to continue to ask us to prove to THEM that what WE want to invest OUR time, money and efforts in, is worth it to THEM. I am sure I am not alone when I say enough is enough. I am thinking that may be the reason for fewer good posts on .mobi topics.

I am back to just reading on the subject and sitting on my hands a lot to avoid bad rep in this place. I have been here a long time and have never seen such behavior before and I am surprised its still tolerated.

Opinions are one thing, but when they are not asked for and certainly not wanted, they should not be pushed on us. We should be able to discuss what we want to discuss without interruptions which serve no purpose at all. If these people are not interested in the names, then they have the option to not buy them. But going into every one of our threads and carrying on as they do...as if anything they say will change our opinions, is ridiculous and a waste of time.

We all have the option to reg what we want to reg, develop what we want to develop, and have the right to a conversation about things that interest us without antagonistic interference.

Mejcdj



Thank you so much

Mejcdj

Well said!

My feelings about mobile applications and/or businesses are such that I plan on doing something about it. In 1995, I had a different feeling. It was more of a "wait and see" type approach to the web. At that time there was just Yahoo.com and a few others out there. I can remember thinking this "internet" will make a convenient library and was generally excited about getting info wherever there was a computer that had internet access.

I had no idea, as did many others what the "internet' would morph into. Well, I don't know about you all, but I watch people now very closely to see what they are doing with there mobile phones. Here is what I'm seeing: People are carrying there mobile phones around like they were a "blanket" of sorts. Almost like a security blanket. Some are playing games, others are talking and some are watching videos they've taken with the phone. Very few are logging on to the internet....

In time, that will change. More people will log on to the internet via their mobile device. That is a given. However they won't do so if there is no content. That is what has to change. Content specifically created to be used for the mobile device.

I see a certain parallel between 1995 and 2006 in that there is this "uncertainty" where the "internet" is going to go. Fortunately, for some they saw back in 1995 where the internet was headed. Some worked in the tech industry and had a leg up on us, but yet there were a few who dropped everything and went for it.

Personally, the road map is much clearer now then it was back than. All I can say is that you'd be a fool not to think that the next market to tap isn't the mobile one. Now whether you use a mobi to brand your product or service, I don't think matters. I would think a short name that can be "tapped" in easily will be considered a "positive" for a mobile address. Search engines will even be more popular (if you think about it) on the mobile web. I personally would hate to blindly do a "tap in" to find a parked page, so at least with the SE, there "should" be the content I'm looking for, and it's much easier to scroll down onto a web site, then to tap in manually.

 

[gamehouse]

Oh, very nice read, great cleaning up of posts. Keep it all positive guys, I guess that hurts nobody.

Good night and good luck,

GH

 

[ekal]

“You can’t milk a calf” – Sumit Agarwal (Google)

What a great quote.