We Are Mobile!
Congratulations everyone, you can now access BeInOman.com via your mobile phone through this address: m.beinoman.com.
There are many Blogs which I always wanted to read when I am bored at school, waiting for someone in a coffee shop, waiting for the ushers to let me in the movie theater or lots of other situations but never knew how to do so. I thought to myself: "if only I could read that Blog now using my GSM..." but I also knew that it wasn't possible because no Blog which I know of support mobile browsing.
That's when I came with the idea of starting this myself. I started researching the possibilities and found that it was very possible. And so, it was created.
The idea of the mobile version is very simple. All it does is take RSS Feeds from this Blog and puts them there. The 'Blog" page on the mobile version will show only headlines of the posts which will enable you to choose the posts that you are interested in without having to pay more for viewing the full content. Clicking on the post title will give you the full content.
I chose "m" as the sub-domain because the "m" stands for mobile and it's easier to type on your mobile phone than the whole word. Plus, "m" is used by many other mobile Websites and it is becoming more and more common therefor, the chances of somebody guessing that the mobile version of beinoman.com is m.beinoman.com are higher.
So, do you think that this is a good idea? Will you be using this service? Please visit the mobile version of beinoman.com through m.beinoman.com and give me your feedback on it.
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8 comments:
woooow ... that's really gr8. very nice.
I don't think that I will be browsing beinoman.com through my phone because I don't use WAP anyways.. In fact, I think WAP is now old-school, since a lot of phones nowadays have Wi-Fi and websites can be browsed normally...
But that's a good idea.
Thanks Amjad :)
I get your point but the truth of the matter is, not everybody is that advanced yet.. not in the Sultanate at least.
So if you have Wi-Fi, go for the actual beinoman.com and if you don't, you go for the mobile version, right? :)
I, myself, use WAP on my mobile phone and so do many otherswhom I know. Even the official papers like the Times and Al Shabiba are taking that initiative, as I written about before.
It's hot now in the Sultanate and I am just trying to be on the head of the game.
Thanks for the support, man
Abdullah, that's a nice idea, but I've always read your blog posts on my mobile through the mobile edition Google Reader. I no longer visit ANY website, I just read RSS, and I can read RSS on a phone, a PC, a PSP, a PS3, or on just any device that can connect to the internet.
Hey Blue Chi! Nice to see you here.
Nice idea you got there, I also think feeds save lots of time. If only everybody knew how to use them.
Thanks for your support!
this is very great one man! i see you also in a site knowledgeoman. are you managing both of them or is that someone else? i like this website as u cover some interesting topics about oman. ur other website is my homepage now. my children are using it for their school projects. how did u get this blog to become mobile what is the steps?
anonymous @ May 2, 2008 7:51 AM: Thanks a lot, I am glad you like it.
Well, about the two websites, I created BeInOman.com and I manage it of course. At the moment, I am the only one posting on it but I welcome anyone's contribution by sending me an email to: almaawali90@gmail.com.
With KnowledgeOman, I work for them. The founder and president is Tariq Al Barwani and I am simply the editor-in-chief.
How I created the Mobile version?
Very good question. I think I am going to create a post talking about how I did it in the near future. How does that sound?
Thank you for you support!
by the way .. did you remove all (or most) of the contributors of this blog ?
This is not related to this topic but yes, I did.
Some of them told me that they are no longer interested and some just stopped posting anything.
I don't want to give people a fake impression of this Blog having many contributors if in the end of the day, I will be the only one posting.
Please email me if you have anymore questions regarding this.
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