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11 - Go mobile, more people have cellphones than have computers.
If you really want to get your content into the hands of as many people as possible then going mobile is vital and a fantastic way to regurgitate your content via a new medium.
Better than article submission, more portable than RSS blogging or conventional web publishing.......
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I know you're an expert in this field, but can you point me in the direction of resources where I can learn about mobile-friendly specs and other considerations..............?
The industry i work for now would probably find this sort of stuff incredibly powerful....
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LOL well I don't know about me being an expert, there are far greater mobile brains out there!!
http://pc.dev.mobi/ - is like the top of the tree when it comes to new things mobile. there are forums and developer guides, emulators and more.
http://pc.mtld.mobi/documents/dotmobi_S … uide3.html - mobi developer guides
http://register.mobi/ - if you want to register dot mobi domain names (i got andymoore.mobi for the hell of it)
http://www.passani.it/gap/ - luca passani - part of openwave - serious mobile geek gap is the global authoring practices - luca is a big name in the mobile world, he knows his stuff.
http://mf.dev.mobi/ - the mobile ready test. how mobile ready is your site - i love this tool as my site scores 5 out of 5!
http://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/000577.html - cameron moll weblog - there's some handy info and links there
http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/mobile_ids.html - tips to detect mobile devices via user agent
http://forums.devshed.com/f20/s - wap development forum over at dev shed
http://forums.admob.com/ - new but with some handy posts and links to tutorials - admob is adsense but (better and) for mobile sites.
http://wurlf.sourceforge.net/ - the wurlf - it knows more about phones and capabilities than we can!
http://pc.dev.mobi/?q=node/72 - great to get to grips with the basics of dot mobi compliant design. (45 minutes of video n stuff)
http://andymoore.info / http://andymoore.mobi - mobile related gibberish from yours truly......
i'll write up a guide to going mobile some time, it is on my list of things to do, then so are many many things!
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