15/5 Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) was launched May 11
MWI: Making Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy and convenient as Web access from a desktop device
What is the Mobile Web Initiative?
World Wide Web technologies have become the key enablers for access to the Internet through desktop and notebook computing platforms. Web technologies have the potential to play the same role for Internet access from mobile devices. However, today, mobile Web access suffers from interoperability and usability problems that make the Web difficult to use for most mobile phone subscribers. W3C’s "Mobile Web Initiative” (W3C MWI) proposes to address these issues through a concerted effort of key players in the mobile production chain, including authoring tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators.
Currently, the W3C MWI is focussing on developing "best practices" for "mobileOK" Web sites, work on device information needed for content adaptation, and marketing and outreach activities.
Mobile Web Initiative Working Groups
The mission of the Mobile Web Best Practice (MWBP) Working Group is to develop a set of technical best practices and associated materials in support of development of Web sites that provide an appropriate user experience on mobile devices.
The mission of the MWI Device Description Working Group (DDWG) is to enable the development of globally accessible, sustainable data and services that provide device descriptions in support of Web-enabled applications having an appropriate user experience on mobile devices.
See also:
Russell's thoughts about the one web idea (via Smoothplanet).
I agree with him almost certainly;)
15/5 Rich Presence = Pull is better, Camera Phones and Privacy
I mentioned it in a
earlier post, pull is in nearly all situations better than push. Ross seems to share this view in
The Cost of Presence:
Heck, the most efficient ways of communicating rich presence is asynchronous (blog posts, Flickr, Plazes) and yet to be integrated -- there is no Xfire (* see below) for real worlds.
When you factor in the rise of RSS as a Pull mechanism that the receiver controls -- there is a significant shift underway to make senders pay. If you don't write a worthwhile blog post, people don't pay attention.
He also speaks about the privacy issue in regard to cellphones:
When cell phones capture and constantly transmit spatial presence we may be in for the biggest privacy shock of our time. Like a camera over our shoulder, only it's in your pocket, everywhere and nearly always on. Social norms will significantly evolve.
Here I would be interested to know who asians countries do handle this. They have GPS-enabled phones since around 2003.
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Xfire and Persistent Presence
Xfire takes this to the next level. It creates a profile about a user actually does, and allows others to see it. Imagine if you will, running a piece of software that watched what you did online. It could tell where you spent your time online and what you were connected to currently. If you were in an IRC channel, it could point your friends to the IRC channel. If you were posting a lot on a specific message board or wiki, it could tell your friends that's what you'd been up to recently.
Couldn't we consider that
Audioscrobbler is going into this direction?
