February 13, 2007
Google Mobile Proxy adds RSS/Atom Feed Discovery
If you use Google on a mobile phone browser, you may or may have not noticed that when you click on results, they send the result pages through a transcoding proxy, that is a server that tries to take regular web pages and format them for your mobile phone. Google's proxy has been around a long time, and continues to evolve.
Their latest innovation is great: if you browse to a page with an RSS or Atom feed, you get the option to immediately add that feed to Google Reader for mobile.
Pretend you search for this blog, for instance. You might see:
I could have felt lucky, but instead I just pick the first one, and there it is...this blog formatted for mobile, and at the top are my feeds.
If you click on one of those feeds, you go straigh to Google Reader.
Very cool.
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November 20, 2006
living-e AG: MAMP - Mac - Apache - MySQL - PHP
out of the box PHP dev on your mac. looks cool.
Link to living-e AG: MAMP - Mac - Apache - MySQL - PHP
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November 09, 2006
XandMail markets a mobile Podcasting solution
RSS is slowly making it's way to mobile. You know it when then companies that sell to mobile operators all start creating a solution for it. Having working in that arena for a long time, I'm sure in 2007, a bunch of these companies will be slugging it out in the RFP process with MNOs.
Like everything RSS related, the demand has to come from the consumers; and mobile is no exception. Since podcasting isn't a pure mobile technology (like SMS or MMS was/is) it will be a bit of a challenge for vendors to push such solutions, but when the subscribers start asking for it is when it will happen.
Will someone create the demand, or will the demand come as a natural progression of feeds and podcasts on the desktop?
As many of the latest devices all have on-board RSS readers and podcasting clients, the solutions will be built around legacy phone support, rich media transcoding, and network bandwidth optimization - all built on top of a top notch directory.
What remains to be seen is whether or not the operators will see distribution of content as competitive to their evolving rich media business models, or complimentary. There's an opportunity for them to view it as a complement, but I'll put my money on short-sightedness.
Link to XandMail, way more than messaging
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November 07, 2006
Yahoo! Graphical Advertising Goes Mobile | News on Mobile Phones | Tech2.com India
Watch the mobile ad pile-on. More green fields.
Link to Yahoo! Graphical Advertising Goes Mobile | News on Mobile Phones | Tech2.com India
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June 14, 2006
WidSets
If you have a J2ME phone, WidSets is pretty cool to try out. Think Netvibes or Pageflakes as a J2ME app.
WidSets Beta
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May 04, 2006
Opera Mini 2.0 [via MobHappy]
somehow i missed that Carlo Longino started blogging again. if you are into mobile, you should definitely subscribe to his feed.
the real point of this post though is that Opera Mini 2.0 is now available. i used to be down on mobile browsing but it is getting better and better and better, and i really rely on it now from my blackberry.
if you have a java capable phone, go to:
http://mini.opera.com/
and give this a try. chances are, it's better than the existing browser on your pink RAZR.
http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/05/03/opera-mini-goes-20/
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January 09, 2006
Enhanced Podcast Converter for Mobile Phones
I haven't tried this but it is an interesting idea - packaging enhanced podcasts (podcasts with images) as j2me midlets instead of creating a generic player. There's might be some interesting reusable code in there, though.
Technorati Tags: mobile
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August 15, 2005
Sun releases Java Wireless Toolkit 2.3 Beta
Sun has released a 2.3 Beta version of the Java Wireless Toolkit wih support for the Location API and Content Handler API.
The Content Handler API allows a MIDlet to register itself as the handler for a specific URI content-type. For instance, a MIDlet browser could launch when an html page is encountered, or a MIDlet music player could launch when a music file is encountered from the xHTML browser.
As of now, this privilege has been limited to those apps that were able to utilize native OS API calls, of which J2ME cannot.
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