DeepFish : is .mobi in danger?

[italiandragon]

Hello all,

I just read on the newspaper about a new browser launched by Microsoft to make easier browsing the web for mobiles.

Is it something .mobi is going to pay or what?

http://labs.live.com/deepfish/

[Asperger]

Not if MS use it in conjunction with .Mobi, which they probably will, because they are backing .Mobi, but don't wan't to show all their cards so early in the game.

[Banned: zojila]

Hello all,

Is it something .mobi is going to pay or what?

http://labs.live.com/deepfish/

I thought just the same. Seems like, with Deepfish, .mobi will be just another extension.

I say this because it will make an impact on how fast .mobi sites are developed. If I am an established site, why not make it available just as is.

All in all it doesn't make sense. It's not like these big guys weren't aware of a company who were developing Deepfish. Just makes the entire purpose of creating .mobi meaningless.

[Fearless]

.mobi RIP

[Asperger]

Deepfish is not an out-of-the-box solution, as it may first appear
Allthough the software is pretty, it has MANY limitations and is still in early stages (as they point out themselves) here: http://labs.live.com/deepfish/whatis.aspx

[Fearless]

Come on .mobites, get to work. You should be on that blog preaching the virtues of .mobi. Out of 232 blog posts there is only one mention of .mobi.

c) I like the fact that I can see websites that are not formatted properly for mobile devices or don't have a .mobi site available.

[mjnels]

hehe.. the reality is .mobi is just another extention.

i cant speak for everyone but what i am speculating on is the possibility that the mTLD actually has a viable business plan for it.. to deny that possibility is just completely arrogant..

[Banned: zojila]

My contention was not that .mobi is not valuable. If you read my post again, I am saying that creating the extension had little value if only there were technologies available like Deepfish to navigate the web just as easily.

Sure, if the masses are forced to use .mobi there will be artificial value created.

Anyways! I can sense all the .mobi players not too happy with Deepfish. Even though it has limitations. Time will erase it soon enough...

Will see what happens in the .mobi space. I don't see it's cheerleaders talking much at all since Deepfish was announced last week.

[SPDev]

I think about one thing. Who is the owner of deepfish.com. Microsoft is going to buy it, I think

[Gerry]

Didn't Microsoft also release the UMPC? And sales were ??? Along with TouchPack software???

Microsoft is starting to remind me of Hardee's...launch and release everything and anything to attract new customers and saturate the market with their goodies. Hardee's did everything they could to attract customers away from McDonald's and Wendy's. This is all looking like the "fast food" of the internet offering up and feeding people what they don't want.

Microsoft also came out with the UMPC (ultra mobile PC) and TouchPack software which has simply not taken off like they had hoped. Both of these were released a couple of years ago and where are they now?

While the UMPC is a great tool, it is still not PORTABLE enough in the sense that a current and future generation cell phones can do nearly every thing the UMPC can do. You can't talk on a UMPC and you can't put it in your shirt pocket.

It looks like the focus right at this minute is on Apples iPhone and how everyone is rushing to get theirs to market to compete...or be left sitting in the dust.

Deepfish is a step in the right direction, but still, a full size page in essence? Then you select content? I'm not sure, I'd actually love to see one and try it.

But if Microsoft is not careful, they are going to saturate the market with products nobody cares for. This is like a connected PDA that offers full size pages and then you select content. Like a newpaper front page and you select the articles you want to read.

I know they have the capital to do this, but there is no end to what they are releasing...be it software, apps, hardware, or products in any class.

And let's not overlook that MS is not the favorite child or the preferred OS in Europe and other parts of the globe. This may be the precursor to MS's new Mobile software for PDA's. But we don't know what it's intent is and what its final look and appeal will be.

MobiPhiles will stand by their .mobi and MobiPhobics will continue to chase them down...so we're right back where we started in the first place...pissing in each other's cornflakes.

[muris]

Opera has good and simple software for viewing pages on mobile devices (just press Shift+F11 on regular Opera to test it). And what? - No functionality.
Pages have to be mobile-functional, java-based to work w/ cell phones.

Mobi will be one of the top three extensions.

[Rarethings]

.mobi RIP

.mobi was never born to begin with

[Fearless]

.mobi was never born to begin with

Nah .mobi is over the hill way past it's prime.

[italiandragon]

great.....I asked a legit question and here the fights start again :(

[katherine]

Opera has good and simple software for viewing pages on mobile devices (just press Shift+F11 on regular Opera to test it). And what? - No functionality.

I have Opera on my PC but did not know. It doesn't look bad