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dotMobi launches dev.mobi to help developers optimize content for mobile phones

Categories: Announcements, Mobile Web
By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, July 26th, 2007 at 3:23 AM

dotMobiTo push the wider adoption of its domain extension, dotMobi has introduced http://dev.mobi to help developers optimize their content for the mobile audience. Among the things you should read on the new site is the dotMobi Developer Guide, a practical tool for web developers which outlines mobile Internet standards developed by dotMobi in conjunction with W3C. Also important to check out is the site-compliance testing tool called “ready.mobi.” Using it developers can easily perform more than 30 separate tests on any individual .mobi site and determine how well their site will work on a mobile phone. Plus, there are more how-to guides, tools and interactive forums on dev.mobi.

Now go and make us some neat mobile sites. Personally, I don’t care if the site has a “.mobi” domain, or “m” subdomain (“m.domain”) — all I want is the high quality content easily accessible from my mobile phone.

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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

  • Vance Hedderel, Director of PR, dotMobi

    Dusan … While I admit I’m partial to .mobi for obvious reasons, I’d suggest that you should care about a consistent way for end users to find good mobile content.

    We’re still in a world where Disney’s mobile URL is mobile.disney.go.com while Bravo TV uses wap.bravotv.com and Best Buy uses bestbuy.com/m. Verizon’s is verizonwireless.com/mobile.

    The .mobi domain is designed to bring clarity to this confusion. And with with backers from ranging from Ericsson and Nokia to T-Mobile and Vodafone to Visa, Google and Microsoft, it’s got a group of people behind it who are sure that it’s **the** way forward.