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Saturday.mobi – Free Mobile Business Advertising in the USA
Attention Restaurants / Bars / and Local Attractions.
Saturday.mobi has been in development for the past year. It’s finally in a beta phase, and if you own a business in the USA, here is your chance to get free mobile media advertising.
If the first question that comes to mind is “What the heck is a dot [...]
Adding a Google Map Image to your Mobile Website
I get many people asking how to put an image of a Google Map on their mobile website. This is a very easy task to do, and I will explain how.
.mobi – The best kept secret on the mobile web.
A look into the Mobile Adult World
Lately I’ve been stumbling across alot of Adult .mobi’s being developed around users uploading photos/videos of themselves to spark up conversation with other members. I don’t consider these to be full “porn” sites, as it’s all user generated, and that’s one of the main tools to drive in more members. The more content the users [...]
Using Twitter with PHP to automatically post tweets
This is a cool little trick I used on my new site, Surl Mobile Bookmarks. Basically whenever someone adds a new bookmark, I want it to be tweeted. I searched around the web, and found an easy code snippet, that works like a charm.
For my site, when someone adds a bookmark, it posts their site [...]
Create a vCard mobile bookmark on the fly!
Andy Moore has created a very easy way to create a vCard for your mobile site on the go! Why does your site need a vCard? Because it makes it easy for people to bookmark your site. Here is what Andy Moore has to say:
bookmarker.mobi is a tool that lets you easily create vCards for [...]
Using Device Atlas to redirect Users
I’ve been working on a project that required both a mobile version, and a web version. After countless methods of browser detection, I find that Device Atlas was the only one that worked the way I wanted it to. How do I want it to work? I want it to detect whether the user is [...]
Get users to bookmark your site
This is a nice little trick that anyone can use to get users to bookmark your mobile site. This post was originally from mjelly.com – Thanks James for the very insightful posts!
The problem is that once you have got people into your mobile site it can be difficult to keep them coming back as mobile [...]
A couple of mobile RSS feeds
Just thought I would share a few of these feeds that I have found. You can use RSS feeds on your site to bring in more content, and keep your users interested.
USA Today Mobile
http://asp.usatoday.com/marketing/rss/index.aspx (Mobile feeds are towards the bottom)
BBC News Mobile
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/5338006.stm#world
Reuters Mobile
http://www.reuters.com/tools/mobile/rss
I will add more as I find them.
.htaccess, Mod_Rewrite and the Mobile Web
Hey all,
I’ve recently been re-doing all of my mobile sites for a fresh 2009 look! I’ve been using Mod_Rewrite to make ‘clean URLs’. Why you might ask? Well, I’ll come clean, I’m no SEO expert, more of an SEO hack. So using Mod_Rewrite can change my URL structure from:
page.php?var=variable&var2=variable2
to:
/page/var/var2/
I thought I would share with everyone [...]
