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Oooh, I think we have some spots near Devon that will need travelling to :D

Best yet guys, well done.

Oh yeah, one other trick with moblog.net is that because we send the subject first along with link to the post, you can direct your media at specific twitter users by just putting:
@username1 , @username2 etc in the subject line. When that post gets pinged to twitter it pings whoever you put in the subject.

"The gender issue deserves its own whole thread."

Totally agree, that's an industry wide problem though.

Personally, I'm fine with:

a) dot mobi sponsorship
b) dot mobi judge on panel
c) conforming to dotmobi best practice for entry

I'm not fine with entries being limited to .mobi sites only. That's it, that's my only gripe, and the one thing that has not been addressed in responses

Think about it. These awards are at the Mobile Web Europe conference. Mobile web. With the amount .mobi has done in highlighting best practice and pushing adoption of the mobile web at a more corporate level, it is as I've said, excellent that the company is sponsoring and associated with the conference.

Limiting the awards for this conference to .mobi sites disregards the *majority* of mobile sites who conform to best practice and use the m. form or /mobile/ URI for their mobiles sites. Like Moblog does, and seems to only best serve the promotion of the .mobi brand.

It seems to me that although you, James, say you are "addressing your points one by one" you have completely ignored Pauls one statement (and the one I believe is core to this discussion):

"Forcing the purchase of a dotMobi domain (which isn’t necessary for a Web site to be mobile-friendly)"


The only comment that goes some way to addressing this is your comment:

"I would advise readers to consult the awards page that says “designed to showcase the very best in .mobi website design and development” and explain what remains “open to speculation” about their nature."

But this just says, in essence, "we have clearly stated it's limited to .mobi sites only". How is telling us that only mobile web sites on the .mobi domain are allowed entry make that position right?

One last point - if you do not allow mobile sites that conform to your best practice but are run from .com or other domains, you should change the name of the awards from "Mobile We Europe Awards" to "Dot Mobi Europe Awards" or similar, because let's face it, they won't be the Mobile Web Europe Awards will they.

James - I'm not pointing fingers, I'm just saying that when you're talking about the mobile web, .mobi is a part of that, not the whole. .mobi clearly has influence over the format over the ilovemobileweb awards, why not push for inclusiveness instead?

I'm speaking at this event, and am joyous to be involved in both the emergent mobile web and the conference.

I am not overjoyed that we have no chance of entering our multi award platform into the awards because we choose to run our mobile sites using the industry standard m. sub domain.

You say "If you don’t make foreign-language films, fine. But don’t be upset that those who do are allowed to be judged amongst their peers". Now I'm not nit-picking here, but for that to be salient then the awards would need to be called the ".mobi domain awards" or similar.

James I agree that the good thing about this is that it highlights standards compliancy.

But are you just ignoring the main point? That restricting entries to a mobile web development award to .mobi domains only is simply wrong, and wrong-headed.

Opening the awards up to mobile sites that run on *any* domain but still hit 4/5 out of the testing tool would be far better, and this debate would never have happened.

@James - but that assumes you're correct in Apple gaining dominance, which I personally don't agree with. Couple that with the Symbian foundation power play, and their massive dominance in the developing world, it would be shocking if they did become the dominant computing provider, but not at all impossible.

@Jones - actually that's not quite true, monopoly is illegal in most regions because laws "...regulating dominance and monopoly prevents firms from using their market power to damage the interests of consumers". That is potentially applicable here. Monopolies powers are addressedusing competition and antitrust laws.

BE= quite literally the best service level and level of customer service I've experienced anywhere. Ever.

Let me preface my comment by saying that I have no interest in owning an iPhone unless someone gives me one gratis. It has serious holes in what the OS actually allows you to do which take the smartphone market back a couple of years in UK terms.

However. It represents the fulcrum of UI and UX. It does. That's not really arguable. That's it. That's what makes the iPhone so good. Forget the Appleist hordes and the cult of Mac for the moment. It's UI is revolutionary.

You can't attack the store either. Over 500 Apps available + OTA OS flashing? Come on, that's fucking revolutionary, not even Nokia can manage that trick.

So yeah, I couldn't give much of a toss about it, and it has it's shortcomings, but it is unarguably a revolutionary device in UI UX and OTA OS upgrading (enough acronyms for ya? ;)

So what do you make of this for Operator version? Operators are just going to turn around and say "Oh great, an application which turns us into even more of a pipe and destroys the market/supply chain in 3G dongles! Wonderful, we welcome this with open arms!" I don't think.

I would like to hear what you think though guys. I mean dont get me wrong, I use Joikuspot all the time and in fact it was an epiphany moment for me, but I can't see operators buying it. Please convince me otherwise.

Can't believe that I forgot to mention that it has also REPLACED BOOKS for me. I have about 5GB of books in HTML/PDF format, pretty much everything I've ever read and mostly any new books that come out. Because you can dim the screen its the perfect reading device for bed as you dont keep your partner up, and you find yourself reading a lot more because of it. My sister reads a lot of fanfic and in fact books on her PC, I can't do it; there's something *wrong* with reading on the PC - psychologically its "work" space, micro attention, Do Things device. The N800/810/770 even *feels* right because of it's size. If you're a big reader it's worth getting one of these *just* for that functionality, seriously.

Get an iGo stoway bluetooth keyboard and it's a laptop replacement. Particularly good for conferences. Install joikuspot on your S60 wifi enabled device and you have a portable wifi router to connect to anywhere you are. There's an emulator for Palms Garnet OS, giving you access to a potential 3,500 odd extra applications. Use some media server software and stream last.fm, FM radio, whatever you'd like across your home or office network. Video streaming within Canola is good, especially for cartoons - family guy etc. It's a perfect in front of the telly device, giving you instant and access to rotten tomatoes or wikipedia. It also fits in your pocket. Skype, Gizmo Project give you great VOIP access. All in all the tablet N range after N770 fits my needs exactly, I dont really need a laptop now, and I Use it *all* the time.

Along with Androids delayed release ( http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/te... ) this is also disturbing news for Google - Symbian has massive market share globally, and going open source trumps Androids main USP.

One thing. Earlier you mentioned that your Qik posts were probably at 3mb per minute. This seems about 3x too large. Have you actually checked the file sizes? One of the Directors at Moblog was in the states a while back and she didnt turn Shozu off. What happened was that Shozu tried to upload images in the background her whole trip, never quite making it off the phone, at which point the upload was attempted again. This created something like a £500 data bill. Did you have something like this set on the handset through April?

All in all, I've never understood why anyone who is really data intensive would ever use anything other than one of 3's Xseries packages; it boggles my brain since as far as I can tell its the most reliable, robust and varied package out there.

Great rundown of events. Unfortunately I found myself outside with a cigarette when Pete stormed the stage, I'm staggered that no-one got any video of it. Nice to have met you briefly Stef, undoubtedly we'll bump into each other again soon, enjoy SXSW!

of course alive and well on Google Video

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-4387...

I first had meetings with the Extreme folks about this back in early 2006, *then* it was 3 months from Launching :)
Going to be interesting to see if they actually get to launch on this...

He's right, and those are precisely the sort of price points that Admob have, so what's the problem, Admob are doing great!

you could just bookmark

calendar.google.com

works brilliantly on my N73.

His moblog is pretty ace: www.moblog.co.uk/blog/conquer_everest

The only issue with that is that when you're using a Series 60 V2 or 3 device which has the new Nokia browser, it's just going to take you to the normal site, you'd have to launch the other mobi/wap friendly browser in order to access the plugin.

So what's the mobile URL baby?

If you're using a CLDC 1.0 or MIDP 1.0 device the Jitter application is really really good. I like accessing m.twitter.com but the fact that for some reason my N73 doesn't want to store my username and password (and the fact that I can't easily minimise and return to the web interface) makes me use the Jitter application 9 times out of 10.