Comments on: Mobile phones as servers – one to watch

By: Susannah Frieling

Susannah Frieling — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:05:14 +0000

Have been looking at doing site optimization and improving the web design on my website for a long time, so this post has been very helpful. Easy read also, so thank you!

By: paulbradshaw

paulbradshaw — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:55:46 +0000

Yep, that’s what I meant – sorry I didn’t express it more clearly.

By: Paul Balcerak

Paul Balcerak — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:30:07 +0000

What occurred to me wasn’t so much “Find me images or video on mobile phones within 30 miles of today’s major news event,” but “Find me multimedia across X platforms happening within 30 miles of the major news even going on right now.” Imagine that big, huge wall of TVs that super villains always had in old movies, only piped into anyone’s laptop, desktop or mobile phone.

For news orgs, imagine being able to zero in on events you thought were particularly interesting and contact the people producing the information (“Oh look, there’s a great photo; wonder if that guy will take $50 for it? Let’s message him” / “Car accident just happened on Southbound I-5 at the Convention Center — post an update to the Web”).

There are also some stalker-ish scary aspects to consider, but that’s an entirely different discussion.

By: Clark

Clark — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:04:48 +0000

Nokia’s mobile web server has allowed you do this for some time but with the caveat that you have to use their mymobilesite.net url.

http://mymobilesite.net/

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:32:09 +0000

Interesting news. I think the idea of being able to ‘cloud’ a web network round mobile phones would be really interesting.

I suppose persuading people to be an open network – we are already training them to lock wifi hubs etc. – might be tricky and getting the phone companies to treat it like the web and let it develop for free before trying to profit could be an interesting challenge.

I’m thinking that getting media providers in to the mobile market – sponsored phones etc – could open the market though