.mobi The critical infrastrucutre question

[cac14850]

Well I see Jeff is back on the board so I thought I would pose this question. How can you reasonably say mobi has not made signifcant inroads into the creation of mobile content given the number of sites up and running given the number of people currently using their phones to access the web? It is a chicken egg sort of thing. Investments will be made in mobile friendly sites when people visit the web via their phones but people don't visit the web via phones because the expereince is not yet there. I think content is developing, people are using mobi sites and both numbers of users and numbers of sites will proceed in tandem rather than an explosion in one prior to the other. Disagree, answer why, not just "nothing is developed in the mobi space" (incidently this statement is becoming less and less true by the day)

 

[Work In Progress]

I, for one, like to speak by using hard numbers, not "what-if's"

Until recently, this was hard to do. But now, I'm seeing quite an increase in traffic to my developed sites. One, in particular, went from about 150 unique visitors a month to 539 as of this writing. It's sure to surpass 600 this month. The majority of traffic is coming from Yahoo. Not direct nav.

My parked sites are getting about the same amount of visitors they have for the past 3-4 months.

I have no way of tracking stats on the parked ones, but the developed ones are another story. I am now seeing an upward trend in actual mobile usage. As of this month, mobile browsers have outperformed IE or Firefox on more than one of my sites. And I see no reason why these stats will not continue to rise.

There are multiple reasons I'll continue to develop my mobi's. #1 is something I believed all along. I really don't think parked mobi's will bring in much income. Surfing the mobile web is not the same as surfing the web on a PC. Sure, there will be exceptions to this, but the majority of mobi's will go unseen unless developed into something useful. My stats are proving this.

And the sad truth is the majority of domainers are not doing this. :td: .Mobi wasn't created to be just another .com alternative. But that's where it'll end up if mobile sites are not created for them. :imho:

Get started on developing guys (and gals). If I can do it, anyone can. One of my simple, do-it-yourself mobisitegalore sites is now page 1, #1 on Yahoo. It just takes a little of your time. You'll benefit yourself and all others vested in this extension.

 

[Mobi Cheap]

....Mobi wasn't created to be just another .com alternative. But that's where it'll end up if mobile sites are not created for them. :imho:

Get started on developing guys (and gals). If I can do it, anyone can. One of my simple, do-it-yourself mobisitegalore sites is now page 1, #1 on Yahoo. ...

That alone deserves rep (system won't let me right now) and IMHO needs to be the focus every day.

Viva Work in Progress!
:great:

 

[meegwell]

I, for one, like to speak by using hard numbers, not "what-if's"

Until recently, this was hard to do. But now, I'm seeing quite an increase in traffic to my developed sites. One, in particular, went from about 150 unique visitors a month to 539 as of this writing. It's sure to surpass 600 this month. The majority of traffic is coming from Yahoo. Not direct nav.

My parked sites are getting about the same amount of visitors they have for the past 3-4 months.

I have no way of tracking stats on the parked ones, but the developed ones are another story. I am now seeing an upward trend in actual mobile usage. As of this month, mobile browsers have outperformed IE or Firefox on more than one of my sites. And I see no reason why these stats will not continue to rise.

There are multiple reasons I'll continue to develop my mobi's. #1 is something I believed all along. I really don't think parked mobi's will bring in much income. Surfing the mobile web is not the same as surfing the web on a PC. Sure, there will be exceptions to this, but the majority of mobi's will go unseen unless developed into something useful. My stats are proving this.

And the sad truth is the majority of domainers are not doing this. :td: .Mobi wasn't created to be just another .com alternative. But that's where it'll end up if mobile sites are not created for them. :imho:

Get started on developing guys (and gals). If I can do it, anyone can. One of my simple, do-it-yourself mobisitegalore sites is now page 1, #1 on Yahoo. It just takes a little of your time. You'll benefit yourself and all others vested in this extension.

Right on WIP! One of my issues is many of my domains are intended for the integration of locational data (GPS). The acceptance of something like android, which should make it easy to integrate phone data to web applications, will help all of us a lot (doesn't have to be android, but something with the same intent).

When it all comes down to it, the fact that mobile browsing will be while "on the go" is just critical to the end user uses for the websites. Right now, Im not sure but I dont think, programming websites for GPS integration is not reliable (or possible?) from a cross-mobile-device standpoint.

zip codes are great and all but a lot of times these type of sites would be useful is are when you are cruising down the highway...business travel or road tripping or whatever. Typically you don't know your zip code or town name...but the GPS system knows exactly where you are -

traffic up at my sites as well...