New top level domain for mobile surfing

Posted on February 26, 2007
Filed Under Advertising, Entertainment, Music, Search, Technology, Tools and Services, WWW | Leave a Comment

The International Herald Tribune reports on DotMobi - a new top level domain for sites that have been configured especially for mobile devices/cell phones.

Though still relatively unknown, dotMobi, which is based in Dublin, is backed by a powerful group of investors including Nokia, Ericsson, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Telefónica, Telecom Italia Mobile, Google, Microsoft and the GSM Association, which represents 700 cellphone operators around the world.

Sounds like a bad idea on many levels.  The article goes on to states that:

The World Wide Web Consortium, know as W3C, an organization that defines standards for the Web, and other proponents of “device neutrality” have argued that the technology already exists to send tailored content from existing Internet sites to specific devices with different screen sizes. The situation is further muddled, W3C argues, by the question of whether dot-mobi Web pages will link only to other dot-mobi pages.

Yahoo on “Graded Browser Support”

Posted on February 14, 2006
Filed Under Good Things, Technology, WWW | Leave a Comment

Nate Koechley, Senior Web Developer at Yahoo! Inc. on Graded Browser Support. She concludes the piece with a quote from Tim Berners-Lee:

“Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.”

Yahoo also publish a table that shows the level of support each browser receives.

Time Travel with ABC

Posted on February 4, 2006
Filed Under Future, Trends, WWW | Leave a Comment

The internet and the development of the information superhigheway as seen from 1995 via a number of video clips. Interesting to look back at the debate on whether it will have the power to change society, what shape it will take and also concern at the emerging digital divide.  Also weird to see the multimedia “kiosks” that were going to change our world which - even at the time - we knew were going to be rendered redundant by the world wide web. One commentator notes that in the future people will be able to “shop from home”.

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