Webwag mobile Beta open: experiment true mobile widgets today!
May 14th, 2007
Want to test the new Webwag mobile extension? Then go to http://beta.webwag.com and use your webwag account (or create one!).
There only are few handsets officially supported (N70, K750, K800, LG Chocolote, Sagem My800x) but should work on more handsets, just try it, and let us know the results.
- Register and create your webwag account
- Add the widgets you like in your page
- Add them into your “mobile screen”. To open your mobile screen, click on the “mobile” icon on the top left, or click on the “mobile” icon on the existing box.
- “save and install” will send you an installation SMS that you should receive within minutes with a link to download it on your mobile. On most of the handsets, the link will be selectable within the SMS. On some handsets (like the LG, Motorola) you can use this link from a specific menu from the SMS message.
If you have problems receiving the SMS, let us now
Feedback, issue, just email us at: feedback@webwag.com
Faq:
* Are all widgets available from Web and mobile?
No, only a subset of existing widgets are today available on mobile:
- RSS
- Flickr
- Note
- Weather
- Clock
- Background
* Is it the same widget running on web wand mobile?
The widgets use the same data, but are different, because of size issue.
* But why not having just a web browser running these mobile widgets?
Because first, technically very few handset have the capacities to run complex widgets within browser, and also because we think that usage are different from web and mobile.
* Do you plan to support more handsets?
Of course, we are already working on this.
* Waow, sounds so cool, how can I participate and create my own widget?
The SDK is not yet public, but just email us and we will notify you when ready (feedback@webwag.com)
Entry Filed under: Ajax, JavaME, MobileAjax, MobileWidgets, Wireless
5 Comments Add your own
1. Webwag mobile widgets goe&hellip | May 15th, 2007 at 12:02 am
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2. PhilJ | May 23rd, 2007 at 11:23 pm
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4. TomSoft » What is a&hellip | May 25th, 2007 at 9:25 am
[…] I recommend particularly two applications: Plusmo, which is in my mind on of the most interesting one but with a poor UI, and Widsets, which is the opposite: a great UI but the application itself is lacking of maturity. Of course, I am not any more objective as we (Webwag) also have a mobile widget engine. I believe that Widget will be the equivalent of “Web2.0″ app for mobile: adapted to small screen size, solving in an elegant way the portability issue, providing real interest for the end user it’s certain that this kind of application will become more frequent in the future months. […]
5. Usersky Daily News Networ&hellip | October 16th, 2007 at 5:04 am
[…] As noted last week, a group of startups promoting themselves at Mobile 2.0. Part 1 was in the morning. Here now is the afternoon session (note it was just 5 minutes per speaker, so we only got brief overviews of each service). Webwag Mobile We’ve written before about Webwag, a personalized start page. Webwag Mobile is a Java app. It looks very much like a desktop widget service (like Yahoo! Widgets). Certainly looked slick and the ability to sync with the Internet version is useful for heavy Mobile Web users. The TomSoft blog has more details of Webwag Mobile. RuleSpace RuleSpace isn’t a startup, it’s an 11-year company. It calls itself a "content categorization" company, which analyzes what users are looking at. In the mobile space, it does parental controls applications. It’s also being used in mobile search solutions, and has anti-spam and recomendations technologies. It is heading into even more granularity, which has applications in mobile advertising. kyte Kyte enables you to create an interactive TV channel on your website, blog, social network or mobile phone. It has a Facebook app too. kyte really shows off the creative and collaborative nature of modern Mobile Web apps. Photo by Rudy de Waele Ex Machina Ex Machina is a social gaming company, that has a gaming platform for Web, mobile and TV. The example showed today was PopKids, described as "Tamagotchi meets American Idol". Essentially you raise a (virtual) child and hope it becomes a top American Idol singer. It takes 18 days for the ‘child’ to grow to 18 years in the game. You need a partner to have a kid and raise it, then you need to provide guidance to the child. This encourages social interaction in the game. The game is a mobile app, but it is going to be developed for TV too. It all sounds a bit strange to me, but then I’m not the target audience - so it’ll be interesting to see if the PopKids game catches on. Photo by Rudy de Waele […]
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