The Mobile Developer

After a load of our customers lost billing thanks to the efforts of one particular transcoding company - Novara - who software has been stuck infront of Vodafone’s internet getway - the COO of that company goes and insults the entire mobile community by showing her complete ignorance of anything mobile, and hurling unfounded (and blatantly false) accusations at Luca Passani - hero of the mobile developer! Check it out here http://www.mobilemarketingmagazine.co.uk/2008/05/talking-transco.html

There’s been some seriously lame developements in the world of mobile recently. So lame in fact that I’ve decided to start a blog - just to moan about them. One such event is the emergence of transcoding solutions. On the face of it - the idea is great - transcoders take a website and make them readable on mobile… and that’s handy. Sometimes they make a bodge of the job but they at least let you see some of the stuff. The main problem is that nobody has bothered to tell the transcoders not to transcode a site which is already built for mobile. When this happens they just ruin a perfectly mobile site. Luckilly Luca Passani - one of the biggest names in mobile has created a Manifesto - and is trying to get the transcoder manufacturers to sign it - so that they promise to not do super lame things, like transcoder sites which are already designed for mobile. Check it here http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/manifesto/index.htm