.mobi Some recent .mobi news & observations

[meegwell]

Thought I'd break the chain of bickering and provide some actual information here...I searched on the key terms and didn't find posts, hope Im not duplicating other posts here.

All these stories are relatively recent.

From macsimumnews.com:

"The “Macsimum MacOSG Newsletter” is now available for viewing on your iPhone or iPod touch via our new “Macsimum News” iPhone/iPod touch app. Simply enter macsimumnews.mobi in your mobile Safari’s browser on an iPhone/iPod touch."

Macsimum News - July ‘09 issue of ‘Macsimum MacOSG Newsletter’ released​

From article at breakingtravelnews.com:

"The mobile portal city.mobi offers a wealth of booking facilities and information for travellers on the go."

Internet Travel News - Airlines boost self-service technology spending

(note world.mobi ad banner rotating at top)​

From mspmag.com:

"Take the best of Mpls.St.Paul Magazine with you in the palm of your hand with mspmag.mobi."

Promotions + Events | Mpls.St.Paul Magazine + mspmag.com​

From various espn and othe sports sites, fan voting for the 2009 espys available via espn.mobi:

"The ESPYs, which will be hosted this year by Samuel Jackson, will be televised Sunday, July 19, at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN/ESPN HD.

Voting begins today and runs through 11:59 p.m. ET July 11.

Fans can vote for the ESPYs online at www.espys.tv or via mobile phone at www.espn.mobi."​

Just an observation here that GoDaddy lists it top six gtlds in all of its press releases:

"The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all new domain names created in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi."​

Shake Interactive is a big digital marketing firm (NY, Scotland, South Africa - shake interactive). They work across all digital technologies & platforms, mobile is just one of their specialties. They've recently changed their mobile focus to .mobi site development because of usability among other things:

"James Oliver, CEO of Shake Interactive, an agency that has been at the forefront of mobile development, adds: “Mobile marketing has been emerging, slowly, for years, but the current penetration speaks for itself. Our main areas of focus are now on developing .mobi sites that can be deployed quickly but are (importantly) tied into a huge database that tracks user interaction across multiple campaigns and multiple timelines. This hangs off the back of our mobile CRM platform.

“The .mobi sites are also being developed in a way that allows our SEO team to work with the mobile SEO algorithm – which is different from the standard web-based algorithm. We see this as a potentially exciting area mainly because if it tracks the web growth patterns, then .mobi sites will have to put usability and mobile SEO at the core of mobile strategies.”:bingo:

A Mobile Medium: Mobile Marketing - Indepth | THE DRUM - Advertising, Design, Media, Marketing, Digital, PR - News, Information & Jobs​

 

[dotcomisdead]

Thanks for the info. I like the way Shake Interactive have adopted the .mobi route having not initially gone down that road... The market is changing daily, how anyone can conclude that the dotmobi market has matured when no-one even knows where the market is going next is beyond me... we live in uncertain but exciting times.