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Dev.mobi Event at Palo Alto
Today, I had a chance to attend dev.mobi developers’ session at Palo Alto.
I am actually a user of their web tools and documentations, and really like the way they are trying to set standard for developers.
In today’s session, I was able to find out more about their ongoing projects. Paul Nerger of dotMobi, explained the interesting new product from them is called Device Atlas. This is a comprehensive database of mobile device information, such as hardware info, OS, browser. supported graphic format etc., with easy-to-follow GUI. The first version was just released a few months ago and they are now working on new features such as integrations with Ready.mobi test suite, W3C checker Firefox plugin, providing analytics and competitive benchmarking.
One of the biggest pain for me to work on mobile web is a cross-browser issue. Surely there’re thousands of mobile devices means thousands of different browsers. I already appreciate for the OMA and WURFL for the data, so with more partners like Nokia, Vodafone, Volantis etc. Device Atlas seems to be so promising fore more accurate info.The data is available as json files. So for example, to get the screen resolution of a certain device, get the UA and simply call its json data.
By the way, just like me, Paul doesn’t like the term “WAP”. I do use the term to distinguish it from desktop web, but I always felt some sort of awkwardness to say it. Yeah, WAP rhymes with crap, right Paul!
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$5 a Gallon? Take Public Transits
maps.google.com/bayarea
I saw this Google ad on the MUNI bus I take for commuting (yes. I take a MUNI and company shuttle to commute to Sunnyvale from SF!) and tried it and like it a lot.
This is a nice additional feature on Google Maps that gives you step-by-step transit directions including estimate travel time. It covers MUNI, BART, CalTrain, etc. also walking route. (but it looks like ferry is not covered).
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Couture Phone from Chiristian Dior
There were Versace by Nokia, Dolce & Gabbana by Motorola, Prada by LG etc. And now Dior will have its own luxury mobile phone, manufactured by ModeLabs of France, with the high price-tag of $5000! This is like a Vertu price, sans the concierge service…
The Dior phones won’t be available in the US, or even Europe – available only in China and Russia.
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Opera Lanches Widget SDK
Today, Opera launched Widget SDK, enabling web developers to deploy web apps on desktop, TV and mobile devices. Unlike Apple’s iPhone $99 SDK, it is free of charge.
Watch the step-by-step instruction video:
More Mobile App/Widget SDKs:
- Apple: iPhone SDK
- Google: Android SDK
- Yahoo!: Blueprint SDK (this is what I am working for)
- Nokia: Widset
- Openwave: Mobile Widget
- Plasmo: Widget
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WTF!!!
I have lost all the past blog entries…
The web hosting company went out of business, and left all customers including me without any notice.
I didn’t even backup anything from MySQL.
All the blog entries you see before this post has been added retrospectively by scrapping some cached content from Yahoo and Google search results. (Nothing was found on Web Archive).
Also, I’d like to say thank you for you guys who have left comments for me. I am pretty upset for losing the comments 
