.mobi The mTLD announces more on RFP offerings and the launch of 1800flowers.mobi

[BocaVision]

and we haven't been posting as steadily as we planned to.

Sorry.

To bring you up to date: The 11th Annual Webby Awards are done. Three great nights of seeing folks from around the globe showing off their stuff -- from the Mentos-in-the-Diet-Coke team to Lonelygirl15 to Halcyon the Happy Hugger.

The mobile web was there, too, but was in the periphery this year. Next year? That's up to the developers and brands, big and small, out there.

Immediately after that was the Mobile Marketing Association's Mobile Marketing Forum in NYC. Two solid days of sessions, including a panel on mobile case studies featuring Neil Edwards, CEO of dotMobi. He presented three mobile case studies: weiwei.mobi, businessweek.mobi and pliba.mobi. These three sites allowed Neil to explore .mobi as a marketing channel, as a channel for generating revenue via advertising, and as a channel for new business models.

We've also been finalizing the announcement of our first RFP name. As soon as we have sign off from all parties involved, we will share the news. We expect this in days, not weeks ... but, sorry, that's not a promise. (And I know -- from the outside -- this seems like it should be easy. It's not, trust me, it's not.)

BTW, 1-800-Flowers just went live with 1800flowers.mobi ... You can now see which bouquet you're ordering. Very cool.

We've also been beefing up our developer team with new folks in our Dublin HQ so we can get new and better tools out of the door ever faster. For example, check out version 2.0 of site.mobi, our site-building tool. It now has form creation, auto-redirect to PC sites, search engine optimization, image editing, driving directions, Google™ search & news, video & audio clip support, and mobile payments.

Again, very cool.

Oh, and we're getting back on track with postings, I promise.

Posted by vance_hedderel on June 24, 2007 at 04:14 PM in Messages From Hosts, dotmobi | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

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[thinking1]

Sick....


Awesome find!

 

[pcaero]

and we haven't been posting as steadily as we planned to.

Sorry.

To bring you up to date: The 11th Annual Webby Awards are done. Three great nights of seeing folks from around the globe showing off their stuff -- from the Mentos-in-the-Diet-Coke team to Lonelygirl15 to Halcyon the Happy Hugger.

The mobile web was there, too, but was in the periphery this year. Next year? That's up to the developers and brands, big and small, out there.

Immediately after that was the Mobile Marketing Association's Mobile Marketing Forum in NYC. Two solid days of sessions, including a panel on mobile case studies featuring Neil Edwards, CEO of dotMobi. He presented three mobile case studies: weiwei.mobi, businessweek.mobi and pliba.mobi. These three sites allowed Neil to explore .mobi as a marketing channel, as a channel for generating revenue via advertising, and as a channel for new business models.

We've also been finalizing the announcement of our first RFP name. As soon as we have sign off from all parties involved, we will share the news. We expect this in days, not weeks ... but, sorry, that's not a promise. (And I know -- from the outside -- this seems like it should be easy. It's not, trust me, it's not.)

BTW, 1-800-Flowers just went live with 1800flowers.mobi ... You can now see which bouquet you're ordering. Very cool.

We've also been beefing up our developer team with new folks in our Dublin HQ so we can get new and better tools out of the door ever faster. For example, check out version 2.0 of site.mobi, our site-building tool. It now has form creation, auto-redirect to PC sites, search engine optimization, image editing, driving directions, Google™ search & news, video & audio clip support, and mobile payments.

Again, very cool.

Oh, and we're getting back on track with postings, I promise.

Posted by vance_hedderel on June 24, 2007 at 04:14 PM in Messages From Hosts, dotmobi | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Technorati Tags: dotmobi, mobile, webbys, wireless

Nice Boca..


Great find..

PC

 

[hedgefund]

Great find, thanks. I guess the waiting and suspension will be over soon.

 

[Pred]

about time.
good news.
hopefully the site will not redirect soon.
mtld are very lazy with their site updates it has to be said

 

[DN Broker-59872]

Technically, within days means less than a week, right?

They'd better make it a good announcement!

 

[Jeff]

First RFP name ...

A previous thread referenced that it may be Weather.mobi ... and this also may be further reinforced - IMHO - with the photo second photo down on the referenced Blog: :gl:

Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotmobi/535941816/

Neil Edwards (center) joined (left to right) Chip Canter, NBC Universal;
Louis Gump, VP, Mobile, The Weather Channel Interactive; Olivier Griot, Managing Director, Mobile, Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. and Boris Fridman, CEO, Crisp Wireless (host) to present on "Effective Mobile Web Case Studies" at the MMA's Mobile Marketing Forum, held in NYC on June 6.

Looking forward to all the details in the next few days! :lala:
Thanks for the post.
-Jeff

 

[GeoOwners]

great stuff...1800flowers is a great one to get out early...imo

Cant wait to see what happens next...this is like a good mystery movie...

.

 

[DN Broker-59872]

...1800flowers is a great one to get out early...imo
.

I agree.

Now Rick's famous purchase makes such obvious sense!

 

[VisionEdger]

We've also been finalizing the announcement of our first RFP name.

what does this mean?

 

[accent]

We've also been finalizing the announcement of our first RFP name.

what does this mean?

The folks behind .mobi (mtld) held back a lot of the best domains when .mobi went on sale. Some they have had in auctions. Four they announced a competetion: "Request for Proposal" (RFP) which allowed interested parties to submit to mtld their ideas of how they would develop the domain, the best proposal getting the name.

Since most of the very best domain names are still held by mtld there is a lot of interest in what happens to them. It appears that creating a contract for these names is more difficult than anyone expected. Mtld wants to be assured of continuing quality content, the buyer wants security for their development and promotion investment. So there have been a lot of delays, and some domainers are frustrated by that. The reserved names will be slowly released over the next few years.

The four currently in RFP are
Weather.mobi
Ringtones.mobi
Sports.mobi
News.mobi

 

[Sam]

great stuff...1800flowers is a great one to get out early...imo

Cant wait to see what happens next...this is like a good mystery movie...

.

Does anyone EVER bother to use the end user perspective :td: .

MANY curious 1800flowers.com user will type in guess what on their phones.

1800flowers.com! :bingo: . And guess what the smart people at 1800flowers.com have done, yep use browser detection to automatically redirect to their mobile version of the site.

Yet again, another "RFP" that already had a mobile design in place via .com. .mobi is just leeching on, IMHO.

 

[000]

Yet again, another "RFP" that already had a mobile design in place via .com. .mobi is just leeching on, IMHO.

In this case, yes it is. However, they are promoting their .mobi as well, which puts a little spotlight on the extension. Can't complain about that, now can we (or can we?)...

 

[nrmillions]

Does anyone EVER bother to use the end user perspective :td: .

MANY curious 1800flowers.com user will type in guess what on their phones.

1800flowers.com! :bingo: . And guess what the smart people at 1800flowers.com have done, yep use browser detection to automatically redirect to their mobile version of the site.

Yet again, another "RFP" that already had a mobile design in place via .com. .mobi is just leeching on, IMHO.

What happens if the people on their phone go to 1800flowers.com on their phone but want to see the full blown website though? Also, does the browser detection work on the iPhone or do you have to scroll and zoom?

 

[qO_Op]

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[Sam]

What happens if the people on their phone go to 1800flowers.com on their phone but want to see the full blown website though? Also, does the browser detection work on the iPhone or do you have to scroll and zoom?

The Full site?!?! . If the majority of the population wanted that then .mobi would have no use whatsoever.

Eventually, that might just happen, but for now i think its the "browser" detection script? So the only people who would want to see the full blown sites would be the ones with "advanced" phones (ie. iphones). And it seems like using "safari" as the browser does the trick.

IMO in the near future (5 years), a huge substancial part of the population will have iphone type of phones, making .mobi obsolete.

It is indeed a footrace between .mobi and technology.

Right now, I see no flaw with 1800flowers.com.

 

[PVFARKAS]

1800flowers.com promotes .mobi with an actual preview to users :yell:
http://ww12.1800flowers.com/template.do?id=template4&page=2002&cm_cid=wb8

this is advertising .mobi to the masses and actually showing a preview.
that is what i want. regular .com sites, regular tv programs, magazine articles and billboards using the word .mobi. .mobi isn't getting passed by technology because a) the technology isn't perfected; b) all types of people have all types of needs; c) the ultracheap google phone's going to hit it home.

it is very good news. people will see .mobi on the .com. they get curious. they may go to bmw.mobi. using a search engine with .mobis could come later.

 

[garrett200]

1800flowers.com promotes .mobi with an actual preview to users :yell:
http://ww12.1800flowers.com/template.do?id=template4&page=2002&cm_cid=wb8

this is advertising .mobi to the masses and actually showing a preview.
that is what i want. regular .com sites, regular tv programs, magazine articles and billboards using the word .mobi.

THISi is the kind of promotion that I like too. If things like this keep happening, major RFP's start gettting promoted, etc., etc., .mobi will get branded into people's minds.

I think public awareness of .mobi is one of the things that is going to determine if and when .mobi is a success. If they really end up promoting their .mobi site, this could be on par or even bigger news than Bank of America's promotion of BofA.mobi.

 

[ezinaz]

Point your Internet-enabled cell phone or mobile device to http://1800flowers.mobi or http://www.1800flowers.com.

Nice to see .mobi listed BEFORE the .com...but I wish they weren't listing both URL's. Old habits die hard I guess.

 

[Sam]

1800flowers.com promotes .mobi with an actual preview to users :yell:
http://ww12.1800flowers.com/template.do?id=template4&page=2002&cm_cid=wb8

this is advertising .mobi to the masses and actually showing a preview.
that is what i want. regular .com sites, regular tv programs, magazine articles and billboards using the word .mobi. .mobi isn't getting passed by technology because a) the technology isn't perfected; b) all types of people have all types of needs; c) the ultracheap google phone's going to hit it home.

it is very good news. people will see .mobi on the .com. they get curious. they may go to bmw.mobi. using a search engine with .mobis could come later.

Try it Now!

Point your Internet-enabled cell phone or mobile device to http://1800flowers.mobi or http://www.1800flowers.com.

Old habits are VERY hard to break.

99% chance that if they are curious about .mobi they will be curious and land up in a parking page, destroying the users confidence about .mobi.

.mobi not ready yet IMO, get rid of those parking pages.