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Scavenger
08-21-2007, 12:51 PM
Interview: Mobile web heads for the mainstream (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/features/2197105/interview-mobile-web-heads&cid=0&ei=u9_KRojYOYqw0QHZyOTpAw)
IT Week, UK - 11 minutes ago
IT Week: As vice president of technology at the .mobi top-level domain registry dotMobi, how do you see uptake of the mobile internet progressing? ...



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hedgefund
08-21-2007, 01:11 PM
great find, thanks.
Scandiman
08-21-2007, 03:14 PM
A pretty basic interview but good to see dotMobi continuing to get press.
Binaryman
08-22-2007, 06:54 PM
This is the most interesting part imo:
Quote"But it's a bit of a chicken and egg situation at the moment in that we need to encourage people to build the content ahead of the rush but we need to market it [to the public], too. The next step for us is to make .mobi part of the consumer vernacular." Unquote
Scandiman
08-22-2007, 07:44 PM
This is the most interesting part imo:
Quote"But it's a bit of a chicken and egg situation at the moment in that we need to encourage people to build the content ahead of the rush but we need to market it [to the public], too. The next step for us is to make .mobi part of the consumer vernacular." UnquoteThe good part is that it is certainly happening today with som many corporates building out their .mobis and independent developers doing the same. I would guess that thousands of people everyday are now discovering .mobi for the first time, and that awareness will only continue to mushroom as people start to tell other people. Reminds me of the concept of Six degrees of separation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation

Considering the fact that there are hundreds of millions of cellphone users today and the sign ups for data plans continues to rise, I don't think we will be waiting too long for .mobi to be a part of our consumer vernacular, at least among the primary user group, those with mobile data plans.