After the beta phase, Blog4Mobile.com will start the central marketing of all mobile blogs. Each user gets up to 70% of the advertising incomes, generated via his mobile blog. Blog4Mobile.com is not only for free, you can even cash in by blogging!

Here is some widgets they propose:

Via 2Dcode.co.uk

I found it only very recently about the mobile website of the swiss radio. Really neat! It has some iPhone look and feel, it is clean and does a good job at informing on a concise manner… what else asking ?
It even provides some show to be downloaded as MP3 (depends on the connection and make sure you have a good data plan if you are on your carrier network).

URL: mobile.rsr.ch or via the QR Code below

Swiss mobile web in the mobile web serie.

• Le co-voiturage ne se planifie pas toujours… co-voiturer tous les jours génère des contraintes qui mènent à l’échec sur la longueur.
• Il ne s’agit pas simplement d’aller d’un point A à un point B, tant qu’à faire, autant le faire avec quelqu’un avec qui je partage quelques affinités…

Une pincée de “réseau social” avec une poignée de “dynamisme”… il y a de la place pour une application mobile! Lors d’un événement (festival, concert, soirée,…) je veux pouvoir sortir mon mobile de ma poche et consulter la liste des personnes qui rentrent dans la même direction que moi…

e-covoiturage.ch

Parlons Foot sur ton iPhone (fr)

Quite easy to translate this link (a video from the Kruger National Park):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cYZSanXWSE

to this (same video on the mobile version):
http://m.youtube.com/details?v=_cYZSanXWSE&warned=1

Remove the parameter “&warned=1″ and you will get this screen before accessing the video. So right. They get it so right… (Google get it right often, too often,… it is actually getting tiresome :-)

Via Mowser

A bit after this announcement, they launched a new version of their Google Maps software on phones that includes a “My Location” feature. This feature basically lets anyone with Google Maps on his cell phone find out its location even if the phone does not have a GPS (which until now was sort of a requirement to get some sort of localisation).

One might ask how they did that ? where does this information comes from ? the answer is quite simple and comes from Steve Lee itself, the product manager of Google Maps:

First, Google figures out which cell towers are where by secretly enlisting the help of a million of its mobile maps users who happen to have phones with built-in GPS devices that are not locked by the carriers (that means no one who uses Verizon). These phones have been reporting to Google where they are, based on the GPS data and what cell tower they are connected to.

Quite interesting and how smart! Google made use of both the carrier network and a piece of software installed on mobile device (sort of a Trojan horse) to build up a very valuable database.

I have somehow the feeling that this is just the beginning… (more to come :-)

• Stef and Selina from BlogAgency in Paris to start with… we have met the first time because they liked iFeedYou’s logo (thanks Jérémy for that one). We started some other projects together which are still running…
• For my last two jobs (including the current one) people contacted me because they have found out about iFeedYou;
• My local “competitors” – rss4you – runs by Roberto and Nicolas (both Liftlab member now);
• Actors of the swiss and french blogosphere (whatever that is…)
• … and so on

It is sad to come to an end but I will never regret the decision to have started this… if you have a project you believe in… “go ahead”, give it a chance, you might not get the result you were looking for but there is no doubt you will benefit from the experience!

Moconews: Mobile Barcodes Driving Magazine Traffic. In France mobile barcodes are called Mobile Tag or Flashcode, provided by the same company I think, which are basically datamatrix with numeric code in it. The resolution is therefore done on a server and it is tied to a reader. The built-in reader of my Nokia can not decode those, so for me it is useless.

Nokia plans to replace clicks with “Point&Find”, “Point and Find” identifies objects through image recognition and provides users with associated information. This technology has definitely a lot of promise… (#)

The XMLHttpRequest has improved a lot interfaces on the “normal” web to the point of creating a revolution (you know this web2.0 thing,…). There is no reason the same does not happen on the mobile web, especially given that smallest request to refresh only a small part of the screen and saving bandwidth is something you are really looking for on a slowest and way more expensive network.

Let Ajax and its magic request alone, JavaScript support would be already a big step towards better adoption because when I think about services on the web that are the most useful for a business and marketers it comes down to statistics and advertisements. Both services drive revenues and they are JavaScript based most of the time, so…

I just found out today about the Frost Ajax Library, a tool for Ajax development on constrained browsers, such as those on mobile phones or gaming consoles. I guess the mobile web is finding its way… and it is on track for Mobile Web 4.0