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The proof is in the Parallels platform

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

goMobi LogoToday, dotMobi announced the latest “good news” story on goMobi, our award-winning mobile site building and content maintenance platform: dotMobi has taken advantage of the Application Packaging Standard (APS) to make goMobi available to the 10,000-plus Web services providers and resellers who use the Parallels platform.

Just as the .mobi domain has continued to grow as the standard for naming content — more than one million domains registered and growing — goMobi is fast emerging as the standard tool for mobile content creation and maintenance. Finding new ways to make goMobi available is always part of the internal discussions we have at dotMobi, and we’re very excited to bring goMobi to Parallels.

For those of you who are not familiar with it or only know its PC-emulation software for the Macintosh, Parallels is a worldwide leader in software that is used by companies who offer a full range of Web services (like hosting) to their customers. With the APS packaging that dotMobi has done, Web services companies can easily and quickly add goMobi into their product mix– think “plug and play.” This means that their customers can go mobile and give themselves an opportunity to consider using .mobi to identify that mobile content.

As we previously mentioned a few weeks back, goMobi recently graduated to  version 1.4 with integration with Facebook, Twitter, and foursquare (among others); QR codes and easy-to-design flyers; custom analytics and a hosted image gallery. So, with growing interest in the mobile Web — and tools like these at your disposal — there’s no better time than now to “goMobi.”

By the way, if you’re planning to attend HostingCon 2011 next week, be sure to bookmark our goMobi “buzz” site for event visitors at http://hc2011.mobi, so you can see goMobi in action. And please come visit us at booth #226.

Good news! goMobi nominated as “Best Technology Innovation” 2011

Saturday, June 4th, 2011

On June 2, the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) announced the shortlists for its 2011 “Meffy” awards — and we were excited to see dotMobi on the “Best Technical Innovation” list for goMobi.

Rimma Perelmuter, the MEF’s Executive Director, noted, “This year’s shortlist demonstrates the rise in mobile content and commerce services that not only entertain but also enable deeper consumer engagement and monetization directly via the mobile connected device.”

Since goMobi is designed to help businesses of all sorts engage with their current and potential customers and grow their commerce via mobile, it looks like dotMobi fits right in.

For this award, dotMobi is competing with some interesting companies, each one approaching mobile technology in a very different way:

The winners will be announced on the evening of  July 7, and we hope to share even better news with you after that night.

Welcome, Network Solutions!

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

Network Solutions has become the latest goMobi partner. Read the full story.

goMobi goes global

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

Along with winning an Irish Software Association award for best technical innovation of 2010, goMobi has just graduated to version 1.2 — a release designed to make goMobi global with advanced language capabilities leading the pack of  new features.

First, goMobi is now available in multiple languages for both site owners and sites visitors. goMobi site owners can now use the goMobi Setup Assistant in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese, and can display the site in any of those languages. Also, with a single click, visitors can view a goMobi site in the language of their choice, with 14 languages available. This capability makes goMobi unique in being able to create a mobile presence that is globally useable and ubiquitous.

Another cool new feature is that goMobi users can publicize their events, like sales or conferences, via an XML feed from Google Calendar. And we’ve updated the ”Find Us” feature so that it now shows the direction and distance to the site owner’s business from the user’s current location on phones that have a GPS or compass functionality.

For our goMobi sales partners, we’ve added enhanced reporting capabilities that allow the exporting of goMobi subscription information along with the ability to more easily track trial customers to encourage them to convert to “live” accounts. We’ve also created new marketing materials for sales partners in English, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese.

If you’re interested in goMobi — and given how easily you can create a mobile presence with it, you should be — you can read more at http://goMobi.info. And you can get a goMobi subscription from a variety of Internet service companies, including BulkRegistereNomInstra CorporationIP Mirrorname.com and OpenSRS.

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!

goMobi Honored by the Irish Software Association

Thursday, November 18th, 2010
ISA's "Technical Innovation Award" to goMobi

ISA "Technical Innovation Award" Certificate for goMobi

I’m proud to share that goMobi was named as “Best Technical Innovation” of 2010 by the Irish Software Association (ISA). If that sounds a bit familiar, you may be remembering that dotMobi’s DeviceAtlas product was shortlisted for the same award two years ago.

This year’s awards ceremony was held on 12 November 2010, and dotMobi was pleased to share the evening’s spotlight with the winners in other categories, including Helix HealthServiceFrameDataHugAdaptiveMobileSAP BusinessObjectsTwelve Horses and Qumas.

You can read the ISA’s press release for more background on the ISA and their annual Software Industry Awards.

More on .mobi and 2D Barcodes

Monday, October 25th, 2010

The use of http://gettag.mobi for pointing folks to Microsoft’s Tag Reader software pops up everywhere these days. For example, I found the address on a coupon for Fructis shampoo at my local gym. You can read more about 2D barcodes and the Microsoft Tag Reader here.

Fructis gettag.mobi Coupon

And speaking of .mobi and 2D barcodes, Lauren Conrad from the TV series The Hills has two new books out: one a girl’s style guide, the other a novel. And while I can’t vouch for the quality of either work, I can vouch for the good use of the .mobi domain and 2D barcodes on the back covers of both books with links to http://lacandy.mobi.

LA Candy 2D Barcode

goMobi Challenge — Extended and iPadded!

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

The goMobi Challenge is on now!

Given that it’s been a very hot summer this year, we decided everyone needed a few days to regroup for the goMobi Challenge.
Since we want to see just how personalized you can make a goMobi site, we’re giving you a little extra time to show us your stuff. We’ve extended the contest through October 17, 2010.

And along with the first-prize package of 100 one-year subscriptions to the goMobi product and highlighting you and your winning entry via an international press release, we’re giving the winner a 16 GB, WiFi-enabled iPad (all the better for looking at mobile websites).

But time is still short, so get going now.

goMobi gets better

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

goMobi, our flagship mobile site builder and content management tool, is now even better.

While we designed it to be as easy as possible for small business owners to use, we also added features for what in the old days we would have called “power users” — Web developers and designers. And as power users are wont to do, they let us know as soon as we launched in June what they wanted to see added. We listened. And here it is: new transcoding options plus “Quick Site Copy” and “Add Pages” features.

The transcoding options now include full control of existing website content transformation into mobile-friendly content along with automatic transcoding of subpages within a desktop site for a seamless mobile user experience. The goMobi “Quick Site Copy” feature lets developers rapidly reproduce goMobi sites for similar business types without having to recreate work. This means developers can save time and money by creating templates for clients with like needs, such as nightclubs or law offices. The “Add Pages” feature makes it easy to create an unlimited number of additional goMobi pages for flexibility in creating unique mobile websites.

While these are all solid features, what’s especially striking for me is how quickly we’re able to roll out features on the goMobi platform. dotMobi’s engineering team, lead by Ronan Cremin, did a terrific job in building goMobi from the ground up as a tool that would easily expand to meet user needs … as this release proves.

If you’re part of our Web developer and designer audience, enjoy the new features. And if you have ideas for others, just let us know via contact@dotmobi.mobi.

DeviceAtlas and mobiReady Updates

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

mobiReady.com While the .mobi domain is the centerpiece of everything we do as a company, we offer many other services and tools to help drive the growth of mobile content. (Because without good mobile content, there's not much for the .mobi domain to do.) So to that end, on Thursday, August 27, dotMobi launched significant enhancements to both our DeviceAtlas and mobiReady product sites.

DeviceAtlas
For Device Atlas — our market-leading, award-winning device detection database, we:

  • Created DeviceAtlas "use cases" to help developers and content providers generate ideas on different ways to use DeviceAtlas
  • Added a case study / testimonials section 
  • Developed a new, dedicated product page with an easy-to follow matrix, including more details on our Enterprise offering 
  • Redesigned the back-end for more responsive pages.  

mobiReady
Users can now post markup directly, which means users whose sites are still under development and/or which are not on a publicly accessible server can use mobiReady. And that means more sites can launch pre-tested to work with the widest possible variety of handsets,
 
Other new features include an updated interface, improved user-friendliness of mobiReady's site testing capability and the addition of HTTP response headers along with test results.

Even if you're only interested in one aspect of what dotMobi does, I hope seeing the full range of what we do helps shed a little light on the burgeoning — but still young —  mobile Web.

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