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I was amused and interested by Cam's recent G'Day World where he chats with Aussie entrepreneur Bronwen Clune.
Bronwen runs Norg Media who have a chunk of sites in style that I just love - user generated news. Think Digg, Slashdot, Newsvine, Unrumor, Techmeme, Norg is up there with them. Norg's niche is people powered local news, Australian local news at that. So they're in an ideal niche for mobile interactivity, people reporting on the spot with videos, pictures and stories direct from their mobile devices.
However, they don't currently have a mobile version, Bronwen mentions that it's something they're working heavily on for this year. But, until then here's the Mowser-powered versions of Norg for Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. These look like a great interim solution until Norg themselves are ready to rock out their mobile version.
I'd suggest that Norg have a good look at Mowser's publisher FAQ, as it would be trivial for them to let Mowser to do 99% of the heavy lifting for their mobile content adaptation, which would leave Norg to focus on just the few best bits they need. Norg use WordPress heavily, so the Mowser WordPress plugin should also be very useful.
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We went to the cinema yesterday, and for some reason I watched one of those boring iPhone adverts before the trailers, you know the ones, Apple showing how the iPhone can do some of the things that every smart phone has been able to do for the last 5+ years, surf the web, email, send a text, browse some maps, run 3rd party apps, take movies, send and read mms, oops, I must have imagined some that (well, 4 out out lots is ok I guess). Anyway I digress, the use case in this advert was some chap deciding to see a film, he texted a friend, found Leicester Square on a map, then Googled for Odeon - which showed their web address and phone number - then he telephoned this number.
See anything odd in this pattern? If the iPhone is so marvellous on the web, why did he feel the need to phone a premium rate number to talk to an Indian call centre? Here's a hint, yep surprised? Four and a half years since the infamous accessible Odeon scandal and their site still doesn't render correctly in any browser I tried (Firefox on multiple platforms, numerous Nokia browsers (pre and post-webkit), even Mowser doesn't work wonderfully). I guess it might work ok in Internet Explorer, but life's too short to run malware.
So, two ironic situations, first even the "Jesus-phone" reckons that the Odeon's website isn't fit for consumption, and the second? Guess which chain of cinemas I wasn't sitting in? 4+ years on and I'm still not giving them my cash...
