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And the goMobi Challenge Winner is …

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

The goMobi Challenge has come to an end. For those who weren’t following too closely, the goMobi Challenge was a contest to see the different and creative ways a designer could use the developer-specific tools included with each goMobi account.

The entries, which came from participants on practically every continent, were stellar. The judges even requested additional time to make sure each site received a extra-thorough review. After careful deliberation, our judging panel chose a shortlist of four honorable mentions and one winner.

The four honorable mentions are:

And the winner of the goMobi Challenge is http://www.snowboards.mobi by Nigel Ankin (UK).

The judges found that Nigel’s site “embraced the full suite of goMobi tools” and offered “rich multimedia content.” As winner, Nigel will receive a 16 GB WiFi-enabled iPad, 100 free goMobi accounts and a press release spotlighting his work.

We’d like to give a special “thank you” to our judges:

And an especially big “thank you” to everyone who took the goMobi Challenge!

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More than 100,000 unique visitors per month

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
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MobileJobs.mobi Screen Capture

At dotMobi, we love success stories. We especially love ones that take a simple, solid business idea and develop it into a big success. That’s why we love a new case study we’ve published in our .mobi Resource Center.

CEO Fran Grossman,who runs eJobStores.com, Ltd., recently decided to embrace the mobile Web by creating mobile-specific offerings. To meet their goal, Grossman and team launched http://MobileJobs.mobi.

Like its desktop sister site, MobileJobs.mobi is a centralized employment network that features more than 300 mobile-friendly jobs sites like accountingjobs.mobi, constructionjobs.mobi, pharmacistjobs.mobi and radiologyjobs.mobi.

The concept of the MobileJobs.mobi, along with targeted marketing, has made the network highly successful, with more than 100,000 unique visitors per month.

To learn more about how Fran developed and grew MobileJobs.mobi, read the case study.

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ICANN #38: a very special event for goMobi and the .mobi domain

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Logo ICANN Brussels

The latest ICANN meeting (#38) that took place in Brussels definitely lived up to expectations — and not only in terms of beers and chocolates. Important steps were taken towards the introduction of new global top-level domains (gTLDs). The approval of IDN TLDs for China and Taiwan sent a positive signal to the millions of people who write in scripts other than Roman that the Internet really is for everyone. Also, the ICM Registry had reasons to be pleased, as the ongoing .xxx saga seems to be heading for a close.

It was also a special meeting for the dotMobi team. On June 21, we formally announced our brand-new product, goMobi, designed  to give small and medium businesses easy, fast and complete access to the booming mobile market. goMobi has definitely generated a lot of interest, and kept us all very busy discussing opportunities with partners, both old and new.

goMobi also made a strong impression on the ICANN community via the brand-new ICANN.mobi site, which was built using goMobi. While ICANN has used a meeting-specific mobile site for its past few events, the use of ICANN.mobi at the Brussels meeting received a lot of positive feedback and also broke previous mobile site usage records. For instance, during the Brussels meeting, ICANN.mobi received 1,859 visits. A year earlier, at the ICANN Sydney meeting, the ICANN.mobi site received only 568 visits. And page views in Sydney were 2,227 while in Brussels that number jumped to 3,648.

Considering the ICANN crowd and its deep ties to technology, it’s not surprising that most mobile visitors were using an iPhone (44.9%) or a Blackberry (28.2%). Androids and Nokias were also used to access the site as was the occasional iPad.

The official schedule was the most popular area visited, with the ICANN event Twitter feed and the “Find the Conference Center” functions next in popularity. Since the meeting ran in parallel with the World Cup, we included a special “World Cup Planner” area which received 90 unique visits. While a good number, it certainly shows that ICANN attendees are more focused on the future of the Internet than anything else.

dotMobi’s next event presence will be at HostingCon 2010, July 19-21 in Austin, where we’ll be in booth #535 with our friends from Afilias — and where dotMobi is the official mobile partner of the event. Be sure to look out for hostingcon.mobi if you’re attending.

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New ICANN.mobi Site for ICANN No. 38 in Brussels

Friday, June 18th, 2010

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New Mobile Site for ICANN No. 38

With just a couple of days to go before the 38th ICANN Meeting officially starts in Brussels, dotMobi is very proud to announce a brand new ICANN.mobi site.

After all the appreciation and great feedback that the four previous versions have received from the ICANN community, we have now completely redesigned the site to be even more pleasant to the eye and easy to navigate, ensuring that you can make the best of your ICANN Brussels experience.

One of the most appreciated features of the past sites has definitely been the “What´s on now” section, allowing attendees to get an immediate overview of the sessions happening at any given moment: we have now merged this function into the main “Schedule” display and made it the default view, while still allowing to easily display the full list of sessions for a specific day with one simple click. On top of that, the search function has been improved, and it now allows full text search to find just the session you need.

The site also includes a very handy Google Maps integration which allows to get turn by turn direction from anywhere in Brussels: considering how the attendees are spread around different hotels, we expect this feature to prove quite useful.

Although I am sure we all agree that ICANN Brussels is one of the key events of this year and many important decisions are expected to be made at this meeting, we do realize that many people will have their heads somewhere else: to make sure you can plan properly and avoid nasty schedule conflicts, we have also added a handy “World Cup Planner” with the schedule of all the matches in South Africa (after a long debate, we decided that merging this section with the meeting´s official schedule and highlighting the session-match conflicts would have probably been going a bit too far).

We hope you will enjoy ICANN.mobi and that you will find it useful: if you are in Brussels (and even if you are not) we´d love to hear what you think, and how we can keep improving it.

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Welcome to 2010!

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

It's a new year with new challenges but also some surprises … like subwayfreshbuzz.mobi, the mobile site of Subway sandwiches (USA). Here's a photo from their PC Web site promoting it:

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The site has a restaurant locator with map as well as a menu … and, after all, what else do you need from Subway?

By the way, Trey Harvin — dotMobi's CEO — wrote an interesting piece on the importance of content in the mobile ecosystem that was just published by Tech News World. I hope you'll find it interesting as well.

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drugs.mobi

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

drugs.mobi An interesting .mobi site that's recently launched is drugs.mobi. While simple in concept — a consumer-level version (plus a "professionals" version) of the type of information historically covered by the venerable Physicians' Desk Reference — the multiple ways the comprehensive site can be used is what makes it a site of note.

As we all know, doctors do their best to make sure you understand what you're prescribed and why — but it certainly is good to have a resource to refresh your memory (especially a resource written for the lay person).

Second, given the sad world of celebrity deaths that are drug related (e.g., Anna Nicole Smith, Heath Ledger, Michael Jackson), having a resource that can explain what the effects are of the drugs in question can help put the tragedies into perspective. In fact, the drugs.mobi PC "sister" site — drugs.com – reported a 20,900% increase in searches for the prescription medication Demerol after the death of Michael Jackson.

And for emergency purposes, there is a pill identification wizard. If you ever been with a child who thought she was swallowing candy or with an acquaintance who is suddenly woozy after taking medication, you can easily imagine how useful it is to be able to figure out what a medication is, even if you only have a pill and not a bottle and / or label.

Also, the site scores 4/5 on the mobiReady.com report and it works on my lower-end Sony Ericsson TM506 as well as it does on my Blackberry 8800.

I can't ask more from a mobile site than utility, speed and relevant content.

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J.C. Penney Goes .mobi

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

JCP.mobi Just to share … today, I ran across this story, "JCPenney Launches Schooled in Style Back-to-School Marketing Campaign," and was
very pleased to see that the campaign is based around a teen-centric site at jcp.mobi.

The site scores 3/5 on the mobiReady.com report but it loads OK on my lower-end Sony Ericsson (and looks great on my iPhone.) 

While it's part of a larger integrated campaign (and jcp.com/teen will be the "hub" of the campaign), it's great that mobile was not overlooked (and that the ad agencies involved chose jcp.mobi as the obvious mobile complement to jcp.com).

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In Las Vegas …

Monday, July 6th, 2009

In Las Vegas, a .mobi fan spotted this car — branded for Millenia's .mobi site; Millenia is a Las Vegas fine art gallery.

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NV.mobi Keeps On Going Strong

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

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Our friends at the Nevada Commission on Tourism just sent us a cool group of photos, showing the promotion they're doing for http://nv.mobi in the Embarcadero BART station in San Francisco. (An earlier report of these photos as being in Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport were erroneous.)

You can see the full photostream on flickr.

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A couple of interesting sites

Monday, June 15th, 2009

LACandy 1. icann.mobi — If you're heading down to ICANN's meeting in Sydney, Australia, next week, you'll want to bookmark icann.mobi. The site has the complete meeting schedule for the event as well as information on how to get around Sydney and where you can have dinner and drinks. All phone numbers are click-to-call links, so it's easy to make reservations or call a taxi.

2. lacandy.mobi – Even if you've never watched Laguna Beach or The Hills, you've likely heard the name Lauren Conrad (a/k/a/ "LC"). On 16 June, she's releasing a book called L.A. Candy and — as part of the launch — she's also launching a .mobi site: lacandy.mobi. You can find out plenty — maybe more than you wanted — about L.A. Candy at the site. And if you haven't yet "met" Lauren, you can catch up with what you've missed at the site.  

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