I searched and didn't see any of these posted - just some recent blog stuff - sorry if it's already been discussed:
From uk blognation:
"If you play around with a few common words, for example colours or small town names, you will find that a lot of mobi names are already bought and parked by other companies, often the same names coming up time and time again. For a TLD so young, it’s already quite full, although sadly with little real content, just irrelevant ads."
"Some companies have already gone down the business dead-end of creating ‘iPhone-optimized’ versions of their websites. But why focus on the perhaps 100,000 UK iPhone users, when you could build a single .mobi site and address 4 milion mobile compatible handsets?"
full post:
http://uk.blognation.com/2007/11/27/take-off-speed-for-the-mobi-domain/
...and for fun:
From conceptualist:
"A US Postal Inspectors and Bureau of Alcohol Firearms and Tobacco report is about to blow the lid off dotMOBI. Nearly 650K of the 700K registrants are in violation of the law. They do not have mandatory MOBI-complaint sites and those with PPC pages have links that are not MOBI-complaint- a double fine; and possibly opening the door for a 25-life sentence."
http://www.conceptualist.com/2007/1...-or-big-things-are-happening-in-dotmobi-land/
And a couple from product-reviews (reviewing ultra mobile stuff):
I love this response:
" have to correct you. .mobi is being used as a way to signify a mobile compliant site. It has little to do with past, current, or future technology as much as ensuring adaptation to whatever standard ensures a mobile user gets 100% satisfaction 100% of the time. Since any yokel with MS word can hack together a PC site .com gives absolutely ZERO confidence that the site owner has or has had the mobile user in mind when building it. You may twist in the wind for 5 minutes on your phone only to discover that the page, like this one, doesn’t load on a standard phone.
Let’s use something you can understand. This page
http://www.product-reviews. net/2007/11/28/kevin-rose- mobile-web-the-future-i-say-forget-mobi-iphone-or-phone-projector/
gets a ready score of 1/5. That means it will definitely display very poorly on a mobile phone. It’s great that you can pony up $500 for an iPhone, but the other 2 or so BILLION GAZILLION mobile customers may not a) want to, b) think it’s silly to spend that much on a phone, or c) earn $300 a YEAR somewhere.
So you may be right in the slimmest of senses; .mobi may not be right for you if you are one of the .05% or so that CAN purchase an iPhone and are so blinded by the notion that .mobi could ensure 100% satisfaction while mobile surfing."
to this post:
http://www.product-reviews.net/2007...-i-say-forget-mobi-iphone-or-phone-projector/
...and this post for good measure:
http://www.product-reviews.net/2007/11/28/umpc-failure-mobi-means-mobile-internet-and-mobile-site/
Almost Friday,
Meegwell
From uk blognation:
"If you play around with a few common words, for example colours or small town names, you will find that a lot of mobi names are already bought and parked by other companies, often the same names coming up time and time again. For a TLD so young, it’s already quite full, although sadly with little real content, just irrelevant ads."
"Some companies have already gone down the business dead-end of creating ‘iPhone-optimized’ versions of their websites. But why focus on the perhaps 100,000 UK iPhone users, when you could build a single .mobi site and address 4 milion mobile compatible handsets?"
full post:
http://uk.blognation.com/2007/11/27/take-off-speed-for-the-mobi-domain/
...and for fun:
From conceptualist:
"A US Postal Inspectors and Bureau of Alcohol Firearms and Tobacco report is about to blow the lid off dotMOBI. Nearly 650K of the 700K registrants are in violation of the law. They do not have mandatory MOBI-complaint sites and those with PPC pages have links that are not MOBI-complaint- a double fine; and possibly opening the door for a 25-life sentence."
http://www.conceptualist.com/2007/1...-or-big-things-are-happening-in-dotmobi-land/
And a couple from product-reviews (reviewing ultra mobile stuff):
I love this response:
" have to correct you. .mobi is being used as a way to signify a mobile compliant site. It has little to do with past, current, or future technology as much as ensuring adaptation to whatever standard ensures a mobile user gets 100% satisfaction 100% of the time. Since any yokel with MS word can hack together a PC site .com gives absolutely ZERO confidence that the site owner has or has had the mobile user in mind when building it. You may twist in the wind for 5 minutes on your phone only to discover that the page, like this one, doesn’t load on a standard phone.
Let’s use something you can understand. This page
http://www.product-reviews. net/2007/11/28/kevin-rose- mobile-web-the-future-i-say-forget-mobi-iphone-or-phone-projector/
gets a ready score of 1/5. That means it will definitely display very poorly on a mobile phone. It’s great that you can pony up $500 for an iPhone, but the other 2 or so BILLION GAZILLION mobile customers may not a) want to, b) think it’s silly to spend that much on a phone, or c) earn $300 a YEAR somewhere.
So you may be right in the slimmest of senses; .mobi may not be right for you if you are one of the .05% or so that CAN purchase an iPhone and are so blinded by the notion that .mobi could ensure 100% satisfaction while mobile surfing."
to this post:
http://www.product-reviews.net/2007...-i-say-forget-mobi-iphone-or-phone-projector/
...and this post for good measure:
http://www.product-reviews.net/2007/11/28/umpc-failure-mobi-means-mobile-internet-and-mobile-site/
Almost Friday,
Meegwell
