Presented to LILRC on 9/30/10.
Note that Slideshare doesn't handle the animation at all. So some of this presentation, especially the Mobile Site Generator demo, will be impossible to follow here. The original powerpoint file, with animations intact, is available here: http://bit.ly/LILRCmobile
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Building a Mobile Website: One Block at a Time
1. Building a Mobile Website: One Block at a Time Chad Haefele Emerging Technologies Librarian UNC Chapel Hill chad.haefele@gmail.com
2. What I’ll be showing you An overview of the mobile/smartphone landscape A tour through our development process The building blocks you’ll need to do it yourself, and the decisions you’ll need to make along the way A mobile site generator
16. Blackberry details Too many to list Available on all major carriers Debuted in 1996 (sort of) More modern devices: 2005 About 10000 apps
17. Which platform? Mobile web use (August 2010) Market share – devices sold (July 2010) Anon. 2010. August 2010 Mobile OS Share. Quantcast Blog. September 3. http://blog.quantcast.com/quantcast/2010/09/august-2010-mobile-os-share.html. Anon. 2010. comScore Reports July 2010 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share -- RESTON, Va., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ --. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/comscore-reports-july-2010-us-mobile-subscriber-market-share-102969094.html.
29. Platform: App or Webapp? App Webapp Java, Objective C Single platform Full hardware access(GPS, camera, etc) Can be used offline Tricky to get stats HTML, CSS, Javascript Multi-platform (maybe) Limited hardware access (GPS only) Requires web connection Standard webstats
42. Block #6: Catalog Catalog options Do it yourself ILS vendor-provided solution 3rd party product
43. Catalog: DIY Priority 1: Get a clean data feed XML feeds from ILS Yaz / Z39.50 (http://www.indexdata.com/yaz) Other solution – tap into DB directly somehow Harass your vendors!
44. Catalog: DIY (at UNC) Endeca makes it all possible XML + php + Syndetics + iUI
65. HTML5 & more on the horizon APIs – camera, GPS, mic, accelerometer, video Youtube: m.youtube.com Flickr: m.flickr.com Google Reader: google.com/reader/i Geolocation: hiddenpeanuts.com/ala
66. This is not the end Slides online: http://bit.ly/LILRCmobile http://www.slideshare.net/cHaefele