The Mobile Web @ mobilerweb.com

How To Build A Mobile Website

2012-03-01T03:30:00.000+01:00

smashingmagazine.com

Over the past few years, mobile web usage has considerably increased to the point that web developers and designers can no longer afford to ignore it. In wealthy countries, the shift is being fueled by faster mobile broadband connections and cheaper data service. However, a large increase has also been seen in developing nations where people have skipped over buying PCs and gone straight to mobile.

Unfortunately, the mobile arena introduces a layer of complexity that can be difficult for developers to accommodate. Mobile development is more than cross-browser, it should be cross-platform. The vast number of mobile devices makes thorough testing a practical impossibility, leaving developers nostalgic for the days when they only had to support legacy browsers.

All .mobi Domin Sales

2012-02-15T03:14:00.000+01:00

On the following websites you'll find all .mobi domain sales.

BulkOwner
Read more...

DomainTools
Read more...

How The Mobile Web Changes The SEO Landscape

2012-02-01T03:32:00.000+01:00

forbes.com

The year 2000 may have seen the dot-com bubble reach the limits of its inflation, but at that point the Internet marketing industry was really only getting started. Rapid increases in personal computing accessibility and the unstoppable growth of search have, among other things, facilitated a very buoyant market in online promotion via SEO – search engine optimization – and related services.

Mobile internet usage is set to overtake desktop Internet usage by 2014, and what’s more, the way people use their mobile devices to browse is very different. This represents a colossal threat and concurrent opportunity for Internet marketers, and it is only those that can truly appreciate how the Internet will be consumed via these various new mobile devices that will prosper. Here are just some of the ways Internet (and search) usage is likely to change.

Google Webinar: Are You Mobile Ready?

2012-01-25T23:00:00.000+01:00

youtube.com

Summary: Are you Mobile ready? Optimize your site for Mobile Users. In this webinar, Google Senior Mobile Account Executive, Elliott Nix, and Mobile Apecialist, Shiv Kumar, discuss webinar to learn more about how mobile site optimization can drive results for your business.

Google Trends - Search for .mobi increases

2012-01-25T13:35:00.000+01:00

Google Trends .mobi

trends.google.com

The Mobile Web in Numbers

2012-01-20T21:04:00.000+01:00

royal.pingdom.com

There can’t be much doubt that the mobile web is exploding in popularity. From the first mobile web access offered commercially with the Nokia 9000 Communicator phone in Finland in 1996, things have moved fast.

Today we’re seeing increased sales in smartphones and tablets, faster mobile data connections, apps, and more. Basically, we’re accessing Internet services more and more from something that is not a PC.

We’ve put together some numbers to attempt to show a picture of what the mobile web was like so far in 2011, how it is has developed, and perhaps take a peek into the future as well.

Introducing smartphone Googlebot-Mobile

2012-01-18T01:03:00.000+01:00

googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com

With the number of smartphone users rapidly rising, we’re seeing more and more websites providing content specifically designed to be browsed on smartphones. Today we are happy to announce that Googlebot-Mobile now crawls with a smartphone user-agent in addition to its previous feature phone user-agents. This is to increase our coverage of smartphone content and to provide a better search experience for smartphone users.

The content crawled by smartphone Googlebot-Mobile will be used primarily to improve the user experience on mobile search. For example, the new crawler may discover content specifically optimized to be browsed on smartphones as well as smartphone-specific redirects.

Lauri Hirvonen talks about history & future of dotMobi

2012-01-15T03:12:00.000+01:00

Which mobile channel will be the breakout star in 2012?

2012-01-10T22:55:00.000+01:00

mobilemarketer.com

Industry experts agree that the mobile Web will be the breakout mobile channel in 2012.

“I believe that the mobile Web will be the breakout mobile channel in 2012,” Ms. Troutman said. “Businesses are realizing that apps are for their dedicated customers and need to be more personal than just having an app that does the same functions as the mobile Web.

“The abilities through the mobile Web are amazing, and can capture, in most cases, 85 percent or more of what an app can accomplish,” she said. “For instance, we can deliver augmented reality on the mobile Web.

You can't get away with a bad mobile experience anymore

2012-01-05T23:40:00.000+01:00

radar.oreilly.com

We talk about "the web" and "the mobile web" as if the two are different, but they aren't. I'm the first to admit that I'm as guilty of doing this as the next person. Using these terms is helpful for discussing differences in how people browse via different devices, but at the end of the day, it's all one web. Users want the same breadth and depth of content, no matter what device they're using. They want a consistent, reliable user experience. They don't want to interact with your site one way at their desks, then learn a whole new way when they're tablet-surfing on the couch, and then learn a third way when they're roaming around with their phones. Site owners who can deliver an experience that feels the same, regardless of the platform, are the ones who are going to own the web of the not-too-distant future.

Five Reasons You Must Have a Mobile Site for 2012

2012-01-01T03:36:00.000+01:00

blog.tigglobal.com

Still don’t have a mobile compatible website? You’re not alone. In fact, only about 5% of online businesses have a mobile compatible website. The best way for you to stay ahead of the curve, would then be to have a mobile compatible website. So, remind me again why you don’t have one yet? No doubt about it, not having a mobile compatible website heading in to 2012 is going to hinder your business growth capabilities, so here are five good reasons you should have a mobile site going into 2012.

Will the Browser Wars Invade the Mobile Web?

2011-12-13T23:24:00.000+01:00

sixrevisions.com

It seems as though the Mobile space is beginning to repeat what we have seen from the ongoing desktop browser wars.

When IE6 was king, it had over 75% of market share. With IE5.5 combined, it was 95%.

What an amazing time it was to make websites: You could create and test a website with one web browser without feeling like your web development responsibilities were being shirked. You could be confident that 95% of Internet users would see the same thing.

That bubble burst when people began adopting other browsers, and eventually we got to where we are today.

Mobile Web Portal & Link Directory

2011-11-30T22:41:00.000+01:00

http://inyour.mobi

"Web inyour.mobi" is a mobile web portal for all mobile phones with a browser.

- News Headlines

- Free Music Charts

- Mobile Website Links

- App Link Directory

- Free Classifieds

- Business (Link) Directory

The mobile marketing book "Mobile Marketing: Finding Your Customers No Matter Where They Are" by Cindy Krum lists inyour.mobi as one of the top mobile web portals. Search for inyour.mobi in the sample pdf of the book. http://www.zonda-e.com.ar/pdf

Top Mobile Tweets

2011-11-30T22:27:00.001+01:00

mobilizemybiz Leeah Otis
The desktop web reaches ~1 billion users, & The mobile web can reach half the planet
http://bit.ly/i78NRt

masterburnett Master Burnett
"If you don't have a mobile strategy, you don't have a future strategy." Ian Carrington, EMEA, Google #mrec

Dotmobi or not mobi

2011-11-29T21:57:00.001+01:00

itweb.co.za

Under the glassy surface of the mobile application world, there's the heaving and grinding of tectonic plates. They're shifting, buffeted by powerful currents deep in the hot, fluid core of the mobile business. These currents are due to the interminable internal politics of handset manufacturers, network operators, content providers, and increasingly the developers of phone applications.

History has not been kind to the mobile application space. WAP 1.x in 2001 was cwap, and was rejected by the market. With WAP 2.x, many developers of WAP sites tried foolishly to replicate their Web sites, rather than seeing it as a new way for people to access “just the right information” quickly when on the move. It shouldn't have been such a failure – the Japanese equivalent, imode, has been pretty successful.

The mobile Web is dead… Long live the mobile Internet

2011-11-29T21:48:00.001+01:00

mobithinking.com

Periodically, someone somewhere for whatever reason declares the death of the mobile Web. This is welcome because it allows us all to review what the mobile Internet really is and why it is critical. Mobile Web isn’t just about having a mobile Website – though that is an important part – it’s about recognising that mobile is different. Mobile users have different requirements to PC users and mobile devices have different limitations and capabilities compared with PCs.

Does your company need mobile Web? Here are four simple questions to help you decide:

Why Mobile Apps Will Soon be Dead

2011-11-29T21:39:00.001+01:00

technologyreview.com

It's hard to imagine Apple's App store -- 50 million users, 400,000 apps, 10 billion downloads -- being threatened with extinction, but it's not as if Tyrannosaurus Rex had a clue its demise was imminent until the process was well underway, either. We know that empires crumble: what's interesting is how.

Right now pundits are focused on the threat of Android. Apple is still shipping plenty of iPhones, but even Steve Jobs must recognize that if his were a Roman empire, the numberless device manufacturers selling Android devices are the metaphorical barbarians at the gates. Android's not the issue, however -- in fact, Android is just another lumbering dinosaur.

The real threat are web apps.

Who’s saying what?

2011-11-27T01:45:00.001+01:00

dotmobi.mobi

A small collection of quotes from a variety of key industry people on the current state of the mobile Web and its importance for the future.

"More people in the world will have their first interaction with the Internet with mobile than with laptop," Vinton Cerf, Internet co-founder

“We really believe we are on the cusp of a whole new era of mobile computing.” Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO

“Most people’s first computing experience will be via a cell phone.” Eric Rudder, SVP, Technical Strategy, Microsoft

Going Mobile? 4 Initial Thoughts on Mobile You Need NOW!

2011-11-27T01:27:00.001+01:00

mobileweb.co.uk

Does mobile feature in your marketing mix? If not, you’re potentially missing a serious opportunity to engage consumers. According to Forrester Research you are likely to be in the minority, 3 out of 4 marketers have suggested that they will be investing in mobile as a marketing vehicle in 2011.

Google Resource: Developing mobile sites

2011-11-27T01:14:00.001+01:00

google.com

We believe the mobile web is becoming increasingly important, but it's not always easy to know where to start. So, we've put together this page of tools available for developers of mobile content, to help ease the way.

Running desktop and mobile versions of your site

2011-11-27T01:08:00.001+01:00

googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com

One of the most common problems for webmasters who run both mobile and desktop versions of a site is that the mobile version of the site appears for users on a desktop computer, or that the desktop version of the site appears when someone finds them from a mobile device. In dealing with this scenario, here are two viable options:

Google's Battle for the Mobile Web

2011-11-27T00:03:00.001+01:00

searchenginewatch.com

I was recently questioned by a colleague who was surprised to learn after all the talk about mobile apps and smartphones, that Google doesn’t have a library of apps. By that, I mean Google lacks native apps for platforms like iOS, Blackberry, Windows Phone, and yes, Android.

Where can I submit my mobile website?

2011-11-23T01:25:00.000+01:00

Mobile Link Directories

http://inyour.mobi
http://wapreview.com
http://oh.dirlink.mobi
http://fonet.mobi
http://wapall.com

Search Engines

http://www.google.com
http://www.bing.com
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com

Why Flurry Got It Wrong On Mobile Apps Vs. Web Browsers

2011-11-23T00:11:00.000+01:00

businessinsider.com

The debate between the Web vs. Apps, between HTML5 vs. Native applications, has long been marked by half-truths, spin, and misinformation. This week the supposed conflict took another false turn. The app analytics company Flurry put out a press release that alleges that “Mobile Apps [have] Put the Web in Their Rear-view Mirror.” This Flurry report is getting a lot of play around the blogosphere. So we decided to look more closely. And it turns out the Flurry methodology here is quite dubious. Flurry compared ComScore panel data which represents the USA population overall (a population that includes the 60% of Americans who do not yet have a smartphone at all) to the users in their own Flurry data set. All of whom by definition use apps, or Flurry can't see them.

Consumers losing patience with the slow mobile web

2011-11-23T00:08:00.000+01:00

reuters.com

High consumer expectations for the mobile web aren’t yet being met, with 71 percent expecting sites to load on smartphones just as fast as they load on desktop computers. This adds a challenge for companies trying to build a mobile presence, as 43 percent of smartphone users won’t return to a site if it loads too slowly on the handset. Mobile websites are gaining functionality and therefore complexity, which can both tax the processing power of a smartphone while also loading slowly on 3G networks that looked speedy just a few years ago.