WOOT! abcnews.mobi

[PRED]

www.abcnews.mobi

[Vision]

www.abcnews.mobi

Sensational!

ABCNEWS.mobi is a MAJOR spark. Their holdings include Disney, ESPN and many other outfits.

MOBI is inevitable

[Gerry]

Hmmm...ABC owns what? A tv station?

Wait...

THEY ARE THE SAME COMPANY THAT OWNS DISNEY WORLD!

Oops, secret is out.
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WHO OWNS WHAT
The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company
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Corporate History

* The Walt Disney Company corporate timeline

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# Disney PressGlobal Retail
# Global Continuity

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* US Weekly (50%)
* Video Business
* Quality


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Disneyland Resort Paris

Hong Kong Disneyland



Other
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ESPN Zone
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The Baby Einstein Company
Walt Disney Internet Group

[PRED]

Ba Da Ba Ba Baaa! I'm Lovin' It

[namewaiter]

Holy shit

[Gerry]

I think to many, .mobi is going to become a cussword in several households.

Almost like surfing for porn...

"I told you that I forbid you to view that mobi garbage! That's it, young man. You are grounded. Give me that phone!"

"But dad! I was only watching the Mickey Mouse show on Disney.mobi...WAH, WAH, WAH!"

"MOMMY, MOMMY! Daddy won't let me watch my cartoon and sing along with Mickey and Minnie!"

"But dear, it's that cursed mobi thing. You know, that thing I told you never to bring up. And now Junior is using it! I just can't figure this generation out. What we had when we were growing up is just not good enough for them. They gotta have their own everything."

[duceman]

Ahh just wait five minutes and I'm sure there will be some thread basher that will come along and say its "no big deal".

[hugegrowth]

it's no big deal.

just kidding.

I hope ABC starts plastering abcnews.mobi on all their tv news shows, and their anchors sign off every show with "check us out on your mobile at abcnews.mobi". Think of the recognition for the extention that would give.

[DNWizardX9]

The news of .mobi's silent death is already making the rounds
http://fragerfactor.blogspot.com/200...is-coffin.html

[mjnels]

The news of .mobi's silent death is already making the rounds
http://fragerfactor.blogspot.com/200...is-coffin.html

its amazing how definitive these statements are when the internet itself is still in diapers.

you guys are too quick to draw conclusions from the most trivial of things.. dont listen to the hype, dont listen to the over enthusiasm, and dont listen to the doom and gloom theorists.


start paying attention and read between the lines.

[Gerry]

The news of .mobi's silent death is already making the rounds
http://fragerfactor.blogspot.com/200...is-coffin.html

Nice site. What CSS did you use to build that?

So the silent death is making the rounds while the thundering emergence of the .mobi format is going unheard and un-noticed. Great analogy...silent death.

I think I published a list of company's to contact regarding the stupidity and absurdity of even registering a .mobi.

I gotta wonder also...seeing that someone did bring up marketshare (as in market reach, scope, and appeal), do you reckon a cutesy little hokey site has a greater market share, a broader reach, and more global appeal than ABC?

Again, where are the original arguments and comments. What I am seeing are points more than a year old being revived and resuscitated with a newer date and time stamp.

It's all about evolution...the Darwinism of the Internet.

No more "if the people want to do business with me they need to come see me on my dot com."

The argument to end all arguments is why can this not work? Who has come forward to say it does not work? Who has said .mobi does not work as a web based application?

Does anyone have anything new to add?

[Devil Dog]

its amazing how definitive these statements are when the internet itself is still in diapers.

you guys are too quick to draw conclusions from the most trivial of things.. dont listen to the hype, dont listen to the over enthusiasm, and dont listen to the doom and gloom theorists.


start paying attention and read between the lines.

That basically about sums it up.

[PVFARKAS]

five minutes passed and thread bashers just can't resist....

ok lets take usatoday - case study -

yes they now advertise m.usatoday.com. But whois shows they also regd usatoday.mobi. will they stick with m.xxxx, revert to mobi, do both? But, this is key, its one company!!!

other BIG businesses are using .mobi daily! can we estimate a decent (can we use the term significant?) percentage of business will use .mobi - so what if some don't - free world and they might down the road, probably have the names already or will get them. and they might if other do and it snowballs and it really catches on.

multiple phones/platforms/carriers will continue - did everyone buy the star tec, treo, blackberry, motorola razr when they came out? razr was $600? the cool cologne changed (my day drakar, cool water, safari, ck, hugo, list goes on and on - I'm Faragamo now, usually nothing). the diet fads go by and even have revivals (I fought with a colleague that Atkins wouldn't be a fad - I was into it then and I was WRONG; now the fight's do all vodka's taste the same) does everyone have that phone now? are people locked into service plans, will they continue for various reasons/incentives, will businesses all hand out the same phones, will they be iphones? Also we haven't bought the iphone yet. how's the battery life, weight, sound quality, durability, etc etc. The iphone hasnt proven itself yet at all (anyone have presales order numbers-i'm sure their coming from the haters-again far off point). But point is it will not take the majority of market share. the shitty gphone may. who knows. And, my dad will not get the iphone, neither will my nephew, my best friend might, he may go to the movies with his girlfriend who may not and they might use .mobi that night. how may people live in a city. I live in NY. Will a significant number of people use .mobi despite iphones? yes

forget the premise that .mobi will best .com or that it will rule the world. Start here - it seems clear that it hasn't even started yet. Is it ready for burial with thousands of companys yet to go live? the tv ads, the billboards and playbills to start? when did every commercial on tv start putting .coms on the bottom, only the last couple years (generous?) Argue if it will become dominant and such, but .mobi will become significant in that a significant amount of people will use if on a significant number of varied platforms. Some will use it and some won't .. The basic argument is 1+1=2. The nail in the coffin people seem to have selective blindness/tunnel vision with their own agendas.

[Fearless]

Holy shit

That's my TM.

[Leading Names]

It points to > http://wireless.go.com

What's the big deal?

- Rob