http://blog.crispwireless.com Talking about the mobile web. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:50:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Senator and Presidential-hopeful John McCain is traveling to Colombia this week to discuss shared values and trade relations, but also to court the Hispanic vote. These issues have an impact on many Americans, but are of particular interest to the approximately 2.16 million Colombians that live in the United States ... http://blog.crispwireless.com/index.php/2008/07/02/the-growing-opportunity-for-mobile-in-latin-america/ Crisp launched an inaugural version of their Crisp Wireless Index today.  It is a first step in providing the industry an insight into the trends within the extensive publisher network via a quarterly published report. And what stands out? Mobile search isn’t that important as a traffic source for mobile ... http://blog.crispwireless.com/index.php/2008/06/09/how-can-mobile-search-be-more-successful/ This morning Steve Jobs showed off the difference between the speed of 3G and EDGE for loading a web page designed for the desktop. I've taken a screenshot from TechCrunch's Qik video to show the 59s for EDGE and 21s for 3G loading time. > 2x times faster from EDGE to ... http://blog.crispwireless.com/index.php/2008/06/09/wwdc-the-iphone-mobile-web-has-the-speeds-you-needs/ What exactly will be the nature of mobile search in the future? How will technology enable people to conveniently search and retrieve relevant information from the touch of a button from their mobile handset (be it an iPhone, Blackberry or some other smart device)? Say, you are visiting the Grand ... http://blog.crispwireless.com/index.php/2008/05/20/what%e2%80%99s-next-in-mobile-point-snap-talk-and-search/ On the way back from CTIA this year, I read a great blog post on MobileStance called Mobile Publishers Dance with the Ad Networks, which inherently summed up the complexities in the mobile advertising space. The beginning of any new market is exciting and even as fans of mobile advertising ... http://blog.crispwireless.com/index.php/2008/05/16/are-we-there-yet/ Finally, there is a study that looks at the impact of mobile Internet usage on online traffic. Not surprising to me, mobile web sites, according to Nielsen, increase the audience of many online sites on average by 13%. I suspected that all along by examining the behavior of users of Crisp-powered ... http://blog.crispwireless.com/index.php/2008/05/04/my-questions-for-nielsen-mobile/ When Crisp Wireless first started with powering mobile sites using its proprietary content management technology, I got a fair amount of surprised reactions from technologists and programmers who knew me. We weren’t only known back then to power the content for downloadables (J2ME mainly), we also found WAP significantly flawed. Back ... http://blog.crispwireless.com/index.php/2008/05/03/web-to-mobile-transcoding-vs-mobile-content-management/ Mobile Search continues to be a hot topic as more publishers are putting up mobile websites and off-deck site discovery continues to be a challenge.  Through our Publisher Network of over 200 mobile websites, we see that off-deck traffic is growing and now represents nearly 40 percent of mobile web ... http://blog.crispwireless.com/index.php/2008/04/30/mobile-search-isnt-the-only-path-to-site-discovery/ Just like everything else you've been reading, Twitter saves the day, but on mobile it saves much more of the day. Does anyone know Twitter's mobile web traffic based on their ~1MM users? Has anyone really commented about how this is the most global platform the web has ever seen? Even ... http://blog.crispwireless.com/index.php/2008/04/16/mobile-web-keeps-people-twittering-all-day-connects-world/ If we only look at the last year, mobile web has died many deaths, if we look back to 2000 it has probably died more than Kenny from South Park. Here lies WAP (WAP is dead), and here's mobile web killed with the iPhone, oh, and here is when mobile ... http://blog.crispwireless.com/index.php/2008/04/15/mobile-web-pronounced-dead-again/