Mobile Content
(experimental Media)
Consuming Creating
Preliminary research
Thesis-proposition

Mobile browsers
aka Microbrowsers
Internet Explorer Mobile Minimo (Mozilla)
(Windows Mobile 5.0/6.0) (Windows Mobile 5.0/6.0)
Opera Mobile
(Windows Mobile & (Symbian) S60
platforms) + 30 days trial
Safari (iPhone & iPod Touch)
Opera Mobile 9
Ajax - Widgets
Web Browser for S60
(Nokia ~ Mini Map Browser)
Opera Mini (Java ME)
Blazer (Palm)

Flash Lite
• Flash Lite 2.1
• AS 2.0
• 3gp video’s (no flv)
• external XML data
• Flash media server 3 & Flash Lite 3
• Social Media Applications (video, audiovisual
messages and blogs, live audio-/ video-chat,
text-chat, datacasting and multi-user games)
• Watching live and recorded streams

Java Platform Micro Edition
J2ME
• collection of JAVA API’s for developing
mobile software. (GNU general public
licence)
• Games
• JAR / JAD (download & install)

Ex.1 Mobizines

Soon! SDK for 3rd party devellopers
iPhone Webapps
apple.com/webapps

Yahoo! Go 2.0
“Walled garden 2.0”

Symbian
• C++
• Symbian OS apps - SIS files (download
or pre-installed)
.Net Compact Framework
• C#, VB.NET
• only for Windows Mobile (like htc TyTN)

Creating content
• Mobile blogging
• MMS (no real succes in Europe) to many with the internet as
backbone + ‘free’ Wifi (could be a breakthrough)
• Big in Japan! (& Korea, India, ...)

Another ‘sharing pictures’ website/application
send picture as MMS or Email to a special emailadres / number

Another ‘sharing pictures’ website/application
send picture as MMS or Email to a special emailadres / number

Another ‘sharing pictures’ website/application
send picture as MMS or Email to a special emailadres / number

Another ‘sharing pictures’ website/application
send picture as MMS or Email to a special emailadres / number

Twitter + tinyurl
send picture as MMS or Email to a special emailadres / number

Tool for professional journalists
-> soon available for everybody aka ‘citizen’ journalists

• Nokia Nokia is really trying to make the mobile web
more 2.0 with some brilliant applications

Nokia Lifeblog
“Organic timeline”
organising/presenting mobile content

Using (mobile) microblogging in a new way
Twitter (Mobile)
for example: as a travel ‘guide’ , journalism tool, ...
Twittervision is an example of how Twitter content can be presented in a new way

Contact
Peter Van Hoecke
Masterstudent Communication & MultimediaDesign
Media & Design Academie Genk
KHLIM - associatie K.U. Leuven
mail: petervanhoecke [at] gmail.com
web: www.petervanhoecke.be/research