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          And another thing...

          1 post, latest post: jamesgpearce, Nov 29, 2007
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          1. Nov 29, 2007
            jamesgpearce says:

            In the dying days of Web2.0 hype, one question is which of the "mobile web" or the "semantic web" will be the next big thing.

            With this site I am hedging my bets :-)

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          Thanks guys

          1 post, latest post: jamesgpearce, Nov 29, 2007
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          1. Nov 29, 2007
            jamesgpearce says:

            Nice to have feedback!

            The site itself is PHP-based, and I do a little local caching to make sure that common queries are quick (since the latency on mobile is already an issue!)

            Just simple queries into the /film and /music areas of Freebase.

            The output is XHTML Mobile Profile / CSS, as recommended by W3C (http://www.w3.org/Mobile/) and all pages should score a 5 on the dotMobi mobile readiness checker (http://ready.mobi/).

            It should be - by day I am the dotMobi CTO :-)

            The point of the mobile web is to get to the point... while it's cool to be able to surf the whole of IMDB on a high end phone like the iPhone, in all reality you are on the move, impatient, and looking for particular nuggets of information quickly. That's the role this site tries to fulfil.

            (I always seem to want to look up actors' and directors' histories after I've seen a film at the cinema - now I can do it before I get home. Perhaps this site is really just for me!)

            More ideas very welcome :-)

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          Oooh, sweet!

          1 post, latest post: skud, Nov 28, 2007
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          1. skud Metaweb Staff
            Nov 28, 2007
            skud says:

            James, this looks really cool. My mobile doesn't do much more than make calls, but this makes me wish I actually had a better one :)

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          Geek writeup?

          1 post, latest post: willmoffat, Nov 27, 2007
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          1. willmoffat Metaweb Staff
            Nov 27, 2007
            willmoffat says:

            Hi James,
            This is the first Freebase app I know about for mobiles. Very cool.
            Do you have a writeup somewhere about the technology behind the site?

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