Recently while searching for information about the mobile web, I stumbled across the website that persuaded me over two years ago to believe in dotMobi. The tittle of the website is „Why .mobi is a Good Thing“ and was written by Russell Beattie. I decided to directly compare the ideas and opinions from the past with facts from today. I used similar Icons to connect the the past with the present.
The Past
Russell Beattie
March 2006
:wave: …Even if you LOVE server-side handset detection and think it's both the absolute best way to serve customers and the holy grail of the World Wide Web, the very simple rules above give us something what we've been desperately needing in the mobile web: A standard navigation scheme…
…So consider me a true believer. There's a bunch of big companies on board the .mobi initiative already, there's a general awareness of the fact that this is coming, and unlike TLDs like ".info", ".biz", ".pro" or ".name", .mobi solves a real problem that people have today and will still have tomorrow, serving a real purpose, rather than just being just an unneeded alternative to .com…
:hearts: …Remember, no matter how powerful handsets get in the future, even if I have the equivalent of a Pentium Core Duo 4Ghz with 2GB of RAM and a Terabyte of storage sitting in the palm of my hand connected by a T1 speed 5G wireless network, the size of the screen isn't going to change much. It's an unchangeable fact that there's a certain size at which a screen and device grows past the point where it can possibly be labeled "handheld", "handset" or even "pocketable"…
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The Present
PR Newswire
April 2009
:wave: …Of the 1.1 million global "entry points" used by content creators, the .mobi domain is the preferred entry point for sites that use a single naming convention …
…Based on a review of the largest top-level Internet domains, dotMobi has seen a sevenfold growth in the number of mobile Web sites in the past year, proving that a revolution in mobile content availability is at hand…
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:hearts: Go Daddy, the world's dominant Web hosting domain registrar, and dotMobi, the company behind the .mobi Internet address, today announced the availability of Instant Mobilizer at GoDaddy.com… Instant Mobilizer allows users to automatically convert an existing Web site into a dynamic, mobile-friendly site…
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The Future
PR Newswire
As a comparison, the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) in 1998 counted a total of 1.46 million public, PC-based Web sites across all TLDs. Today, VeriSign estimates there are approximately 77.4 million live ".com" and ".net" Web sites. Given the strong growth of the mobile Web in the past year and the rapidly evolving sophistication of mobile technologies, a similar -- or even faster -- long-term deployment of mobile content is likely compared to that of the PC-based Web a decade ago.
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The Past
Russell Beattie
March 2006
:wave: …Even if you LOVE server-side handset detection and think it's both the absolute best way to serve customers and the holy grail of the World Wide Web, the very simple rules above give us something what we've been desperately needing in the mobile web: A standard navigation scheme…
…So consider me a true believer. There's a bunch of big companies on board the .mobi initiative already, there's a general awareness of the fact that this is coming, and unlike TLDs like ".info", ".biz", ".pro" or ".name", .mobi solves a real problem that people have today and will still have tomorrow, serving a real purpose, rather than just being just an unneeded alternative to .com… :hearts: …Remember, no matter how powerful handsets get in the future, even if I have the equivalent of a Pentium Core Duo 4Ghz with 2GB of RAM and a Terabyte of storage sitting in the palm of my hand connected by a T1 speed 5G wireless network, the size of the screen isn't going to change much. It's an unchangeable fact that there's a certain size at which a screen and device grows past the point where it can possibly be labeled "handheld", "handset" or even "pocketable"…
Source
The Present
PR Newswire
April 2009
:wave: …Of the 1.1 million global "entry points" used by content creators, the .mobi domain is the preferred entry point for sites that use a single naming convention …
…Based on a review of the largest top-level Internet domains, dotMobi has seen a sevenfold growth in the number of mobile Web sites in the past year, proving that a revolution in mobile content availability is at hand… Source
:hearts: Go Daddy, the world's dominant Web hosting domain registrar, and dotMobi, the company behind the .mobi Internet address, today announced the availability of Instant Mobilizer at GoDaddy.com… Instant Mobilizer allows users to automatically convert an existing Web site into a dynamic, mobile-friendly site…
Source
The Future
PR Newswire
As a comparison, the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) in 1998 counted a total of 1.46 million public, PC-based Web sites across all TLDs. Today, VeriSign estimates there are approximately 77.4 million live ".com" and ".net" Web sites. Given the strong growth of the mobile Web in the past year and the rapidly evolving sophistication of mobile technologies, a similar -- or even faster -- long-term deployment of mobile content is likely compared to that of the PC-based Web a decade ago.Source
