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I suppose if I were really serious about the “Mobile Web,” I would start by making this site mobile friendly. Unfortunately, I tried to access it with my lovely new Sony Ericsson V800 and found it completely mobile non-friendly. I should, in theory, be able to rectify this using CSS media queries. More soon.

Filed by Daniel Appelquist at 16:45 under Blogs, Mobile Web

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So on Sunday I went to something called the “Design Festa” at Tokyo Big Sight, an enormous expo center on the outskirts of the city. From what I understand, it’s a twice yearly event where hundreds of artists and designers from Tokyo come to display their wares, sell stuff, create art, etc… Everything from iron-work to painting to hand-made t-shirts to music was on display and/or on sale there. I got an artist to do this rendition of my two kids, Alex and Emily, from a picture I had stored in my camera. I’ll post some more pictures from the “Festa” soon.

Filed by Daniel Appelquist at 5:20 under Kids, Travel

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Some anecdotal evidence of the shape of the Mobile Web in Japan:

• An advertisement with multiple URLs on it, each for access over a different carrier
• Every content provider has to code their service or application multiple times for different carriers (XHTML-MP, XHTML-Basic, CHTML, MML, etc…)
• Everyone is walking around using their mobile phone (no different than Europe, actually), but it seems to me that this is mostly for messaging

It seems there are some mobile Web problems in the land of the rising sun. The Mobile Web Initiative could help to tackle these problems by rallying the industry around specific profiles and standards.

Filed by Daniel Appelquist at 15:07 under Mobile Web, Travel

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So here I am in Tokyo — for WWW2005 conference and the launch of the Mobile Web Initiative. My initial impression: Tokyo is like New York on steroids. More soon.

Filed by Daniel Appelquist at 3:25 under Mobile Web, Travel, W3C

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