Do you know how far Japan is on Mobile from us ?

Well if you can’t eve imagine, check this post:

http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/08/20/infinitatv-makes-sure-you-stay-on-top-of-japans-mobile-tech-scene/

Android + Flash = iPhone but kicked

For the happiness of Android users and the sadness of iPhone users, Flash is now supported.

“So we just got word that HTC will be the first manufacturer to bring Adobe Flash to the Android platform with the release of its new Hero / Sense device. If you needed more proof that Android is here to stay and will not sit on the sidelines in the mobile operating systems game, this is it. If you think about it, the iPhone is now the only platform with substantial weight on the market that doesn’t boast support for Flash.“

More about this article in MobileCrunch

Tracking mobile with Google Analytics

I’m working with mobile for a while now and today the question poped: how to track mobile with Google Analytics.

At first it did not make much sense, but most of the mobile devices does not support Javascript or Cookies.

After some googling on the net I came accross this post – http://www.vdgraaf.info/google-analytics-without-javascript.html – that shows a way to call the tracking from Google without Javascript.

I have just did a small test run in my website: http://www.mcloide.com and tomorrow I will post the results for you guys here.

Anyway is a great post and if you are having the same difficulties, this might help you out.

Have fun.

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Update:

I have just checked the analytics for my site and it did correctly got the Blackberry, Nokia N90 and the Sony Ericsson. I have only one entry for Safari, so I guess that was for the Iphone string (it shows Iphone on the operating systems part).

All the entries shows the fake url (that’s how it was instructed at the blog) and the IP of origin. It also shows 100% of bounce rate.

It definitively works. I will keep it on my site for a long time track and see how things are going and anything new I will post a new update.

Build Apps for smart phones with a framework

I’m not fond of Ruby on Rails, but this can be a great resource - http://www.rhomobile.com/ – even more today with the hunger for mobile apps becaming every day bigger.

This guys had done a framework that would provide you create a app for multiple smart phones with one single code.

It’s a pretty cool concept and it’s definetly worth to take a look at.

Down side: It’s not PHP, but well, nothing is perfect