Two "new new" things: Yahoo mobile client and Plazes
A couple of interesting things on the blogs this morning.
Firstly Yahoo have released a Symbian client dubbed Yahoo!Go - I am not sure where precisely to put the exclamation mark or marks!!
Interesting as it is essentially a mobile version of their web site including extensive synchronisation. I think this app illustrates a key point. Conventional PC based websites do not work on mobile handsets so there are really only two possible approaches:
A - build a functionally rich client optimised for the specific site
B - acknowledge that mobile browsing is DIFFERENT and build the service accordingly from scratch optimised for the mobile channel
Yahoo! have taken Option A here with the resulting drawbacks: special client download required and only works on a minority subset of handsets. This app is 1.8 Megs! and only works on limited handsets - in this case Symbian OS.
With Tribes we take the "B" route and the service is guaranteed to work on all handsets with no download configuration.
The other interesting service I saw today is called Plazes. This looks like a very innovative service whereby users can register locations and provided information on a "wiki" open source basis for consumption by others. For example I have registered as a"Discoverer" of the busiest shopping street in Dublin Grafton Street here.
The alleged benefit to me then is that I can start to resell location data in the plazes network relevant to this location. Hmmm.. so could be one of these services that really takes off or flop very quietly. Anyway I am now taking interested bids for Grafton Street via e-mail:-)
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