dotMobi
On a plane tomorrow to Florida. If the show is anything like this year’s intriguing 3GSM, it will be time well spent, even though it’s crazy triple-booked busy in my calendar right now.
I’ll be on the dotMobi stand a bit: Hall 3, stand 1995 if you want to come by.
On Tuesday I’m doing a keynote for the the dotMobi Advisory Group workshop. It’s a group of companies and individuals – outside of our investors - of that helps steer the .mobi company and its strategy.
I’m pretty sure anyone can come along to the session. Details here.
Wednesday night is Gala night. I’m hoping to add another notch to my “Was I the only blogger at?” series.
I’ve finally made the effort to finish off my little experimental .mobi site.
It’s 5 common phrases (Thank you, Hello, Yes, No and Goodbye) in a variety of common languages.
To be honest, it’s mostly for me to use! OK, so French & German I’m OK with, but I always struggle in Iberian taxis. So this should help.
(Mental note: are the killer apps for the mobile web those that you build for your own use?)
And as I travel, I’ll probably add more languages.
Hardcoding all the pages just seemed like a drag. So it seemed natural to autogenerate them. But of course languages don’t change that fast so it’s a build-time generation, rather than request-time.
And how? Well, a grid of phrases vs languages – it just had to be Excel! I drop new vocabulary into a spreadsheet and a little VBA macro spews out perfectly formed XHTML files (that, surprise… just happen to score 5 on http://ready.mobi)
I realise I’ve deviated from my “.mobi sites for beginners” vibe here.
Next stop: advertising.
Over at dotMobi, we’ve just released our mobile developer guide.
I’ve just seen the astonishing download statistics: an incredible 23,600 downloads in less than 2 weeks.
OMG.
Congratulations to the team! Please take a look – and I hope you enjoy it.
