Mobile Web 2.0 is coming (3)
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.”
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.
Ajit Jaokar, author of Mobile Web 2.0, teaches on a number of short courses here at the University of Oxford. See – http://cpd.conted.ox.ac.uk/electronics/courses/default.asp#Emerging%20Technologies
Also, any of you interested in mobile applications and mobile web 2.0 are welcome to join the University of Oxford Mobile Applications discussion forum – it has over 1700 members, is free to join and is at – http://cpd.conted.ox.ac.uk/electronics/oxford_university_next_generation_mobile_applications_panel.asp
Peter Holland
University of Oxford
Sadly, no it’s not. At least not in the sense of how the web is all 2.0 now, except for those few who get the latest gadgets and don’t mind paying $100/month for current data plans (ie. employers foot the bill, not them).
Again, this week at Infopresse’s Mobile Marketing conference, this is probably the strongest fact that kept coming up despite the “here’s the cool stuff you *could* do” demos. Data plans are too expensive, so unless you’re targeting rich people with luxury/specialty products, you’re not reaching anyone.
It’s really too bad, the technology is there and I’m sure a good chunk of people are ready to get the mobile web rolling, but nobody wants to pay those insane fees.
Operators are killing it in the egg.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/09/i-saw-the-future-of-social-networking-the-other-day/
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