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Posted by Jane Copland I've recently purchased my first BlackBerry phone, and I've thus been introduced to the joys of a truly mobile Internet. There is a big difference between composing all-lower-case, badly punctuated emails on one of these horrific pieces of rubbish and using a phone that was actually designed with the Internet in mind. However, I've also had the displeasure of visiting sites that aren't designed with mobile phones in mind. I liken looking at a badly-formed mobile site as being in a very skinny corridor with a lot of very large people. No one can move very quickly and you can't see anything. Whilst nothing (save for perhaps the iPhone ) currently compares to a real computer, there is of course a growing number of sites that do their best to give us full functionality at a mobile level. As was mentioned in the Mintel report I cited last week , mobile usability is the next battle ground for social media and, inparticular, social networking. There shall be no prizes handed out for guessing which companies are doing mobile social networking best, although I have to dock points from Twitter because 99% of their mobile success is due to applications like TinyTwitter , Twitterberry , Twinkle and a range of other things beginning with "tw." Facebook pretty much turns into a made-for-mobile application when taken to a cellphone, managing to both stay loyal to its online self and exhibit total mobile functionality. Its ...
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Posted by Jane Copland I've recently purchased my first BlackBerry phone, and I've thus been introduced to the joys of a truly mobile Internet. There is a big difference between composing all-lower-case, badly punctuated emails on one of these horrific pieces of rubbish and using a phone that was actually designed with the Internet in mind. However, I've also had the displeasure of visiting sites that aren't designed with mobile phones in mind. I liken looking at a badly-formed mobile site as being in a very skinny corridor with a lot of very large people. No one can move very quickly and you can't see anything. Whilst nothing (save for perhaps the iPhone ) currently compares to a real computer, there is of course a growing number of sites that do their best to give us full functionality at a mobile level. As was mentioned in the Mintel report I cited last week , mobile usability is the next battle ground for social media and, inparticular, social networking. There shall be no prizes handed out for guessing which companies are doing mobile social networking best, although I have to dock points from Twitter because 99% of their mobile success is due to applications like TinyTwitter , Twitterberry , Twinkle and a range of other things beginning with "tw." Facebook pretty much turns into a made-for-mobile application when taken to a cellphone, managing to both stay loyal to its online self and exhibit total mobile functionality. Its ...