Via Smoothplanet’s comment, a new mobile web service: Tappity

Tappity is a user driven site where you submit, rate, and discover mobile-friendly web pages for viewing on phones and PDAs. In addition, you can save favorite items to a mobile homepage that’s personalized just for you.

Some interesting features there,…

While I am at it (and still investigating to fill up my white sheet), here is nice list of mobile social network:

• Dodgeball
• Friendstribe
• JuiceCaster
• Zingku
• Rabble
• Moblabber
• Wadja
• Treemo
• Veeker
• Zemble
• Socialight
• Hobnobster
• Flagr
• Twitter
• Jambo
• Nakama

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Edit:

• Mobleo (#)

OK, to start with the pizza place down the street is closed on Monday. I forgot that and we (ok mainly me) were just dying for a pizza. Because they are cheap (mmmh!) we decided we would give a shot to Dominos,… and because I am a bit of a geek I wanted to order online. Bad bad bad trip.

Ordering online on dominos.ch website was just my worst e-commerce experience!! I do not even know how it could be worst… they are just the best in the worst. I had to register but it did not take in account my address, then I had to login three times until it works, never stored my language preference, the server is damn slow, nothing user friendly,… I ended up with a screen that says I have received an email with my order which I have not yet received. I had then to call the center to make sure the order went through, and they told me that the service never send out an email!

I have not yet eaten but I am already fed up… I can believe such a company can not get right someting that important!

UPDATE: Well I actually did get an email… so the lady on the phone was wrong.

I had heard of this game of course but it is the first time I can have a
look at it (thanks to my cousins). Amazing…

(#) (fr) Orange France will install Flashcode reader on its mobile (currenty only N70 is supported) from Mobiletag.

What I actually do not understand is that they (Orange) claim then they want to “normalize” the use of 2d codes over all three operators in France.
Well then at first why do call it “Flashcode” while the technology seems already to be known as “Mobiletag”, then why do you encode shortcode ? why not URL directly when using QR Codes or datamatrix* ?

* well I could anticipate some questions and say that we will change that on our blogs

+1. Count me in Jeremy. I can not stand email any more.
Email as we know it is doomed.

Let’s say you need to develop a service for both the web and the mobile web. This website will have for every web page a mobile version with the same content than on the normal web but formated to be readable on mobile device.

In my opinion you need to satisfy the following:

1. The lambda user should get automatically the version that serves the content adapted to the device (and network ?) he is using (ie. 1 URL for all devices with content negociation based on user-agent and any other information the server can get). Ex: www.mobapi.com
2. The user who needs the mobile version should be able to force the mobile rendering through a dedicated URL. For instance add “/mobile” at the end. This will allow browsers which does not identify themselves correctly to access the mobile content. This will also let normal browser access light content, I often do that in the train while surfing with my laptop connected to a GPRS/UMTS connection. Ex: www.mobapi.com/mobile
3. Even though it is less obvious the other way around might be useful as well. One user who is using a mobile device might want to force the web rendering. Browser on mobile are getting really powerful and capable of rendering big web page. Add “/www” at the end of the URL. Ex: www.mobapi.com/www
Same behavior can be true for language issue:
www.mobapi.com serves the language as set up in the HTTP header.
www.mobapi.com/fr forces the use of a language.

You end up with this kind of URL:
www.mobapi.com[/device_type][/language]
where:
device_type in [www|mobile|…]
language in [fr|en|de|it|…]

Suggestions:
1) On the web page you might want to advertise the existence of a mobile adapted version with some mobile discovery mechanism in the meta tags in the header.
1) In the footer of your pages, it might be a good idea to provide a link that will let you switch to the other versions (web->mobile, mobile->web).

m.youtube.com (qrcode) (datamatrix)

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Meeting point (e.g. “treffpunkt”) in trains

First meeting in Lausanne yesterday evening (well first meeting in Switzerland) that ends up with an interview of Sandrine by Thierry (check the interview and list of participants).

Let’s say you get a white paper, a few months, a pretty good budget. You have to fill up this white paper with something you believe in. What would you do ? where would you go ?

I have a pretty good idea on how I would fill up this white paper and for me it should definitely make use of the mobile and have some social aspects…