Archive for the 'mobile web' Category

If you have a blog or web­site, you want stat­ist­ics, the best place to get them cur­rently is Google Ana­lyt­ics. The stat­ist­ics are amaz­ing in both detail and depth, with one excep­tion identi­fy­ing mobile devices&#8230

Sue of Mobile Tech­no­logy in TAFE of has taken my Web­Jam slide show added audio from Greenguy’s video and com­bined them to pro­duce a much improved ver­sion of my present­a­tion without me boun­cing around the stage. The res­ult­ing dis­cus­sion is interesting.

Sue of Mobile Tech­no­logy in TAFE just pos­ted an art­icle of provid­ing learn­ing mater­ial on mobile phones and poin­ted out this art­icle about the options of deliv­er­ing train­ing mater­ial via the mobile phone. While I can see real advant­ages in be able to deliver train­ing mater­ial via mobile devices, so stu­dent can have their train­ing mater­ial on hand and eas­ily access­ible in the work­place. It should not be the only chan­nel at present.

Thanks to Green­Guy, my moment of glory/infamy at Web­Jam is now on YouTube.

Sue the Min­is­ter for Pod­cast­ing has nom­in­ated me as Min­is­ter for Mobiles and har­assed me ;-) to com­ment of the iPhone vs Mobile Web art­icle from Read/Write Web. Which is based on Forrester’s report The Mobile Web Versus The Web On An iPhone: iPhone Wins In A Blo­wout. Being unwill­ing to pay $50US for a 5 page US cent­ric report, I will have to base my com­ments on the Read/Write Web art­icle and the small snip­pet that is avail­able free from the For­res­ter website.

Got home and found a let­ter from my telco. I wondered what it was about, opened it and got a pleas­ant sur­prise. 3 is really going after the mobile data mar­ket in Aus­tralia, they were already the cheapest mobile data pro­vider. They are now dra­mat­ic­ally increas­ing data allow­ances on all their plans, mine went from 1Gb to 2Gb a month.

It is inter­est­ing to see how the other tel­cos are going to react …

The present­a­tion went quite well, lots of ques­tion and I went well off my notes (will post later) and hope­fully there will a pod­cast available.

The slides, which are mainly images to remind me of what to talk about is a 1.8Mb PDF or on Slide­Share

Writ­ing my pre­vi­ous post on the but­ton ele­ment and mobile browsers got me think­ing about HTML5 and how it will work with mobile web browsers.

I know all the major browser vendors (Microsoft, Moz­illa, Opera and Apple) are onboard with HTML5, and they are also the major mobile browsers vendors (well Opera, Microsoft and Apple via its’ web­kit being used by Nokia are), but will HTML5 be they imple­men­ted for mobile web browsers and how?

The but­ton ele­ment was redis­covered by Kevin Hale of Wufoo and Particle­tree fame and while read­ing through the post, think­ing I gave you feed­back dur­ing the Wufoo beta about the but­ton ele­ment and it took you this long to see its’ advant­ages. I star­ted read­ing the com­ments, one com­ment from Rus­sell Beat­tie stopped me in my tracks.

It is easy, I am blog­ging while wait­ing for my lunch. But it also has a few chal­lenges, word­press is not pretty or intu­it­ive on IE on WM5, the key­stroke com­bin­a­tions to enter HTML is pain­ful, cut­ting and past­ing from other win­dows dif­fi­cult, but it can be done, so expect more mob­log­gig from me.