Mobi Social Websites – a quick introduction

Mobile devices are becoming unavoidable for now days lifestyle. Mobile phones are used not only for voice calls and SMS, but the power of internet [GPRS, Wi-Fi etc] brings world as compact in hand. Feature phones and Smart Phones are playing major role in Social lifestyle improvements. People use it for Internet browsing, Emails and Media content sharing and management on the way. How many of you are using these tools?

Snaptu: It is a Mobile application available for verity of Mobile Operating System platforms, enables the users to share media content through Facebook, Twitter and Emails. Users can utilize the available device capabilities such as Mobile camera for capturing photos and upload in Flickr, Play videos and visit linked websites. The RSS news feeds can be captured and shared in Facebook and Twitter with single click.

Qeep: Qeep a mobile social network for Java based phone owned by Germany based private network, has officially launched it app for the Indian markets. Qeep is a freely downloadable application and offers features like Private messaging, photo-blogging and live multi-player gaming.

Mocospace: allows you to share text, pictures, videos and location information between PCs and mobile phones. It’s based on chatrooms, with different levels of privacy and a “Circle of Trust” to determine who you can send and receive from.

Jaiku: shares an online log of your day as microblog, including messages, events and photos through “activity streams”. Jaiku Mobile allows you to view other user’s streams through your contacts list.

Guys, try these tools and share your comments.

Programming .Mobi – Mobile Websites

Are you a programmer? What programming languages are you using currently – C#.net, Java, PHP, Perl, Ruby, SQL … don’t worry – you got some new career opportunities in mobile web site development too.

Even though all the above mentioned programming languages can be used, I strongly suggest going with PHP-MYSQL combination – because of its tremendous advantages in dynamic content design and delivery.

Also – the Wordpress, Joomla and other Content Management Engines mostly follow PHP-MYSQL as preferred programming. Personally, PHP-MYSQL programming is very easy to learn, and a average developer can do wonders in 10 days with right challenges.

• XHTML and CSS knowledge - required – Very important but can be easily handled with Dreamweaver type of Software Tools.


• Javascript knowledge - required – but can be handled with customizing available downloaded code blocks.


• SQL – required – Database Programming, Query based applications.


• XML – required – to handle simple and complex data structures


• Knowledge in using popular IDE tools for PHP – this reduces development time by instant help, and programming support.


• Preferred knowledge – HTML 5, Mobile detection using WURFL, Multimedia and Streaming, Mobile Wordpress, Location Detection, Widget Design Patterns, Mobile SEO and Social Features and MIME Types for Mobile content.

I strongly suggest having a code library for all required functionalities, so that the plug-and-execute can happen with little or no modification.