A Look Back at the Last 5 Years in Mobileview story

A Look Back at the Last 5 Years in Social Media

In honor of Mashable’s five-year anniversary, this series is supported by IDG. Customers are talking about your brand and products — find out what they are saying with IDG Social Scout.Five years ago, YouTube was just getting started, MySpace was the most popular website in the U.S., and Facebook was still limited to college and high school students. Mobile was mostly an after-thought, as we were still more than a year away from the introduction of the iPhone and the idea of an app store. And “widgets” were just starting to emerge as a way to integrate third-party apps on a website (Newsweek would declare 2007 to be “year of the widget” in a late 2006 article).

A Look Back at the Last 5 Years in Blogging

In honor of Mashable’s five-year anniversary, this series is supported by IDG. Customers are talking about your brand and products — find out what they are saying with IDG Social Scout.Five years is eons in Internet time, and a lot has changed in the blogosphere since 2005. Sites have been born, sites have died, sites have grown up and others have faded away. Entirely new blogging formats have been created and business empires have been built on the foundations of humble blog beginnings.

5 Companies Reinventing the Way We Think About Mobile

This Innovation Series is supported by Lexus.Looking at the mobile computing landscape over the last five years, it is amazing to see how far we have come and how integral mobile devices have become to people all over the world. We’re constantly reporting on phones that are lighter, thinner and more powerful than anything to have come before — only to be usurped a few months (or weeks) later by the next big advancement.As mobile computing moves beyond the mobile phone and into devices like the iPad and other tablet computers, we would like to take a look at five of the companies that are changing the future of mobile, and that have a strong hand in defining and shaping the devices we will be using in the future.federated_media_section = "lexus";

5 Things to Consider When Designing Your Mobile App

This series is supported by Webtrends Mobile Analytics, which lets you monitor the adoption and usage of your mobile apps and mobile sites. To keep up with Webtrends Mobile, add their blog to your RSS reader.Thanks to the slogan “There’s an App For That” and the surging iOS, Android and BlackBerry markets, it seems like practically every company has a mobile app. In fact, in many ways, the mobile app today is what the website was ten years ago — one of those tools that has transferred from being a luxury into a necessity for businesses of all sizes.

Designing a Mobile Stylesheet for your Website

TweetIt seems mobile is becoming more powerful with the younger tech audience. More kids and young adults are carrying around smartphones than any other time period ever before. Each one of these devices is not just a phone, but a mobile computer built with access to any website over the Internet.This leaves a lot to the imagination when it comes to mobile design. If you are developing a website and know you’ll have a market running through mobile browsing it would be a good idea to optimize a mobile stylesheet. It doesn’t take much work and will save your visitors a lot of frustration.

WorkLight Now Supports BlackBerry Devs

Mobile application developers can now use the WorkLight Platform to create and manage apps for BlackBerry OS 5 and OS 6 devices. With this latest addition to its support of iOS and Android devices, WorkLight now allows businesses to cover all three major smartphones with a single platform. “As RIM continues to launch new devices and technologies, with the release of Torch and recent talk of an upcoming BlackPad, we are seeing increasing demand from companies looking to reach BlackBerry’s large installed base of users worldwide,” said Shahar Kaminitz, CEO of WorkLight.

Smartphone Browser Landscape

Users expect websites to work on their mobile phones. In two to three years, mobile support will become standard for any site. Web developers must add mobile web development to their skill set or risk losing clients. How do you make websites mobile compatible? The simple answer is to test on all mobile devices and fix any problems you encounter. But with at least ten operating systems and fifteen browsers out there, it is impossible to do that. Nor can we test only in iPhone and Android and expect to serve our market. PPK surveys the mobile web market, as well as phone platforms and their browsers, and shows how to set up a mobile test bed that works.