Mobile Web 2.0 & MDBFmatt

lacey@mrlacey - mrlacey.co.uk

Eagle Eye Technology“Creative Thinking for Mobile Technologies”

http://www.eagleeyetechnology.com/http://m.eagleeyetechnology.com/

Mobile Web 1.0?• WAP

• WML

• HTML Sites that didn’t work

Web 2.0

1. The Web as a Platform2. Harnessing Collective

Intelligence3. Data as the Next “Intel Inside”4. End of the Software Release

Cycle5. Lightweight Programming

Models6. Above the level of a single

device7. Rich User Experiences

Phones have evolved

Phones have better browsers

Faster Connections

3G

Cheaper, fixed price access

£

Promotion of usage

Who’s using the mobile web?

17,400,000 users in the UK!

- emarketer.com Feb ‘09

Who’s using the mobile web?

1,050,000,000 Globally

More than PCs and Laptops combined!!!

350% increase in mobile social network usage

- 6 months to Feb ‘09

Does the mobile web

really matter?

“expect 50% of traffic in coming years to be from mobile devices”

- Nokia Developer Summit (April ’09)

"we expect that eventually the majority of the usage of the internet will be on mobile phones"

"Mobile devices are the most important technology of them all."

“Google’s future depends on the next internet, on cellphones.”

Unfortunately mobiles vary

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Identifying capabilities

•UAProfile•WURFL (http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/)

•Device Atlas (http://www.deviceatlas.com)

•DetectRight (http://www.detectright.com/)

•Volantis (http://www.volantis.com/)

•MobileAware (http://www.mobileaware.com/)

<%@ Page language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.UI.MobileControls.MobilePage" %><%@ Register TagPrefix="Mobile" Namespace="System.Web.UI.MobileControls" Assembly="System.Web.Mobile" %>

<mobile:Form id=Form1 runat="server"> <mobile:Label id=Test Runat="Server">

Hello, Mobile World</mobile:Label>

</mobile:Form>

http://mdbf.codeplex.com/

Mobile Device Browser File

How can you use it?

Demo

4 Top Tips

• 1 mobile device != another• Keep pages simple & small• Test on real devices (eventually)

• Mobilise don’t just minimise

More Information

•http://mdbf.codeplex.com/

•http://mobiforge.com/

•Talk to me