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Mobile Web 2.0 is coming (3)

April 29th, 2008 · by bassem · Mobile

The Web 2.0 Expo revealed the ever-growing fascination with everything mobile.

An expert in the field of Mobile Design, Brian Fling declared that the iphone is already 0.09% of all web traffic.This may be true . Remember, not long ago Google announced that it had 50 times more searches on iphone than on any other handset.

While Apple is preparing for the Apple Developers conference, Nokia is still the overwhelming dominant mobile manufacturer. They have 39% of the market , more than the three next suppliers combined! – Motorola, Samsung and LG. Recently, Nokia has announced the next stage of its Widget platform for Symbian Series 60 smartphones. The new stage will give developers access to GPS, contacts book, communications stacks, e-mail and SMS functions on the phone.

For Marc Davis, Yahoo’s social media guru, there’s no doubt that the future is about mobility . “The next web,” he says “will be about place and time.”

Yes, the mobile web 2.0 is pounding at the gates.

Last summer, I read a very interesting book called Mobile Web 2.0 by Ajit Jaokar and Tony Fish.

In it they enunciate the seven principles of mobile web 2.0 :

1) Mobile Content captured at the moment of inspiration – like photo, twitter,etc. (Last week a student twittered his way out of jail!)

2) I am a tag, I am not a number- freedom from the restrictions of various network operators.

3) Multilingual mobile access.

4) Digital Convergence.

5) AJAX/Widgets.

6) Location-based services.

7) Mobile search.

Clear and concise definition of mobile web 2.0. Now bring on the applications.

With the (locked) iphone (3G version ? Probably) coming soon to Canada, courtesy of the sole GSM operator here, Rogers, it’s time to rrrummblllee.

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