While investigating dull coding standards, guidelines and best practices on building mobile websites, I came across a great article titled “Effective design for mobile screen sizes”.

There are many guides and “expert tips” out there, however this one is particularly useful as it uses the new BBC Mobile site as a case study, whilst providing facts/stats on mobile screen sizes that exist in today’s market. A must read for designers/developers and those interested in understanding the methodologies put in place when designing a website for a mobile phone.

Read more here

Is NCF the next missing link?

Wiki: Near Field Communication or NFC, is a short-range high frequency wireless communication technology which enables the exchange of data between devices over about a 10 centimetre (around 4 inches) distance.

Kinda like a mash-up between a RFID Chip and a smart card but a little bit smarter than that. Locally Telstra and NAB have been working with it to develop contactless mobile payments (here). You know buy some “stuff” at the “supermarket” and instead of using your “plastic” to “pay” for it, you just “swipe” your “phone” past their “thing” and hey-ho you’ve just “paid” for it. Now it can go a little bit further than this as people have been using the technology in smart posters, so the user just waves their phone past the poster and “holy-digital-content-delivery-system-Batman”

Hat Tip: Rubbishcorp

Maybe it won’t just be all QR codes, these guys (daeminteractive) seem to be going past using barcodes and instead are using MMS and image recognition to create the all important link between the static ad and interactive content… all via the mobile device. THX: PSFK

I read recently that we seem to be increasingly outsourcing parts of our brain. So here is a little digital helper in that process. See a little detail online and think hey I’d like to remember later… offline. Well step back from that post-it-note. Instead, just click on that little beamme.info icon, enter your mob number and voom  that recipe (insert small detail) has just been sent to your phone. No one keeps the number and it’s free for the user. Neat huh? beamme.info