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Video talk: Best Kept Secret - On The Mobile Web

wmseto | 29 August, 2009 09:55

I have come across this video on youtube. It is quite good timing because I have just recently switch to a job that is related to mobile web, Web Run-time, Flash, and etc. I will be talking about them more in this blog, and I really hope you will join in the discussions. This particular video is a positive re-enforcement to the mobile web/internet. Let me know what you think.  Toward the end, the "mobi" logo has just stayed there a tiny little bit too long... BTW, it still puzzles me why .mobi extension was chosen... (any one can tell me the reason(s)?)

Let me share a little secret of my own, when I first started as mobile browser engineer, the WAP time (yes almost 10 years ago, if anyone can find some WAP articles I wrote in 1999, I shall give you a small gift. Yeap they are out there in the Internet still), I realized WAP is actually 927 on your traditional phone keypad, two cool things 1) the 3 letters are all first character of the multi-tab. 2) The keys form the perfect triangle (okay this is pushing it a bit). Could it be the standard guys were so clever then to think of all these, or these are just coincidence? Was there a conspiracy? I don't know about you. When .mobi extension came out, I was a bit disappointed... The extension was very difficult to type on a multi-tab keypad. I was thinking... if you going to make a mobile web site extension, why not take a look at the keypad first? Would it nice to have something easily enter with a KEYPAD on a PHONE, for your MOBILE SITE? Tongue out I guess my comment is a few years late (well no one would cares about my comment then and now anyway); plus now, a lot of phones have QWERTY or virtual key board.... Anyway, there is the video I've wanted to shared. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. (hey don't forget to post your comments to the creator of the video too!)

-Wai Seto 

 
 

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