iPhone: The new web is born - Irish Independent

[Scavenger]

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Irish Independent, Ireland - 14 minutes ago
Paul Nerger, vice-president of advanced services and applications at the Dublin-based dotMobi, which sells mobile domains for the web, says the iPhone has ...


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[newdomainer]

:thumbsup:

This is 'THE' Headline that I have been waiting for.....

:thrasher: :rock: :beer: :dancing::dancing: :five:


:congrats: :congrats:





Oh Jeff.... this is for you;

:damnmate:



& this will be you sometime next year;

:banghead:

[coast]

Hallelujah!!!!!!! Now THIS is what I'm talkin' about!

[HipHop.mobi]

true some1 dig it and push it to the big forums!!!!!!!


repped coast

[newdomainer]

HH..... I dig ya but I can't digg it (I haven't signed up with digg ;-)

where's my rep!!! stop sweet talkin the ladeez! lol

[Pred]

nice
bookmarked :coo2l:

****** the rss feed :biggrin:

[Tim]

That's a pretty good read. Rep...It is a biased piece as the author and the rag is IE based. Also, the only ones who commented on .mobi were, dotMobi. I'd like to see Google or Apple execs speak the words dot MF mobi before I get all up in a tizzy :coo2l:

We all know that the mobile web is here / coming, but we need the folks at mTLD to tie that to .mobi. No one in the know denies accessing the web through mobiles isn't happening or even that it needs to be mobile based. What is consistently missing is that trustmark argument...

[newdomainer]

That's a pretty good read. Rep...It is a biased piece as the author and the rag is IE based. Also, the only ones who commented on .mobi were, dotMobi. I'd like to see Google or Apple execs speak the words dot MF mobi before I get all up in a tizzy :coo2l:

We all know that the mobile web is here / coming, but we need the folks at mTLD to tie that to .mobi. No one in the know denies accessing the web through mobiles isn't happening or even that it needs to be mobile based. What is consistently missing is that trustmark argument...


Tim, you party pooper! :laugh:

To be honest, I'd pretty much given up on the trust mark issue because there are as many counter arguments regarding what that trustmark means now...

a) there is no guarentee that the dotmobi domain will resolve at all (unless the user already knows the site exists)

A dotcom site however has a similar chance of not even resolving at all (unless the user already knows the site is mobile friendly)

Score nil / nil



b) there is no guarentee that the site will render well even if a site exists (because policing compliance must be automated to be effective and as far as I know it isn't possible to do it like that - yet)

A dotcom site will fail to render on a small screen more often than a dotmobi but there are many that will use autodetect and make use of m. & /mobile

Score 0.5 / 0.25 to dotmobi




c) there is no guarentee that the site isn't just a parking page even if it is compliant..

A dotcom site isn't guarenteed to be anything other than a parking page - and parking pages are often mobile friendly due to their simplicity

Score 0.5 / 0.25 to dotmobi




So out of a possible 3 points; dotmobi scores 1 & dotcom scores 0.5

(all imho of course)

This leads me to pass on the trustmark argument for the time being until compliance is more likely to be assured.
The only postive thing to say about this is that dotmobi has scope to score between 2/3 & 2.5/3 whereas dotcom probably can't get past 1/3


However.... I believe that dotmobis' strength lies in its pure simplicity and marketability combined with it's promotional potential to be something that each dotmobi sites 'sister sites' are not... and that is mobile specific, targetted content & apps..

And whilst the publication is Irish and dotmobi are based in Dublin... I still believe that todays press is a minor breakthrough for dotmobi...

I am very pleased with the way that dotmobi has been adopted so far in light of the fact that it isn't required for techno reasons... can you imagine if the main sites we've seen to date were developed because of reasons that no longer apply? It would be disastrous for mTLD....

However, I'm not aware of any sites using a dotmobi that haven't chosen to use that for anything other than cosmetic / styling & branding reasons so the growth is both sustainable and likely.... whereas if the trustmark issue had played a bigger part in the early days, I'd be worried now..

So thank F*** for that :coo2l:

Onwards, sideways a bit then upwards.... you just watch..