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Mobile Web 2.0

Nice guys Jyri Engestrom and Petteri Kopone, the founders of mobile social networking company Jaiku, have sold their company to Google. Yahoo is beta-testing social network Mash. And some tells Google going to buy Yahoo ;)

David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo! Inc in 1995 says: 'The idea that people use mobile devices only for voice calls will change. Though text messages and voice calls will continue to drive the business, complex services and applications will arrive on the mobile devices. In the coming years, we can see people shifting from mere voice services to data services and other applications. They will be spending more on these new services. The second area, which will drive the Internet, is the community and social space. User generated content is bringing a lot of people together. This momentum will gain strength in the coming days.'

G and Mobile Social Networks

Mobile social networking madness reached beaches of Google. As we remember G bought a tiny mobile social network called dodgeball. Soon its founders Dennis Crowley and Alex Rainert left G. And today G buys next mobile social network - Zingku, that integrates txt messaging, IM, email. As we see G buys mobile technologies. Even not buys, but collects them, as a smart collector does.

Guidelines for Mobile Webdesign

• CSS-based layout
• Proportional measures (em, %)
• XHTML or XML coding standards
• Character encoding in UTF-8
• Design for different mobile screen sizes: 120px to 640px x 480x
• Logical structure
• Select values from a list of choices
• Images: jpeg or gif
• Always provide a [back] link
• Keep maximum page size under 20 kb
• Music: CD-quality
• Video: 3-to-20-minute time frame
• Buy .Mobi Domain
• Check your mobile site: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
• Submit your .mobi web site.

Use .mobi standards.

Build your mobile website by yourself or mobilize it with Mdog / Zinadoo / Feed2Mobile / Mowser / Wapple.

Read full intro of Mobile Design Practice and mobile phones design resources.

Mobile Linux

As a SEO Freelancer I watch competition in mobile operating systems arena, and realize that sooner or later we will optimize resources within and for mobile social networkings battle.

Lets look at recent mobile platforms: apart Symbian OS, MS Windows Mobile family, there are Linux based mobile platforms:

• Maemo (Nokia, based on Debian Linux)
• Open Moko (Neo1973 phone)
• OpenZX (Motorola EZX)
• MOTOMAGX (Motorola)
• LiMo (Vodafone, NTT Docomo, Motorola, Samsung, Panasonic, Nec)
• ACCESS Linux Platform

Mobile Linux will become the dominant OS of mobile phones within next years. The personal mobile server is a top-notch weapon of personal publicity, and we have to look closer to understand where mobile SEO could go.

'I see the mobile Linux wave out in the ocean and am sounding the alarm - the mobile Linux tide is rising. Be prepared', - J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D., VP & Chief Analyst for Mobile & Wireless at Frost & Sullivan.