MobUser

I was happy to see that I made the 2006 JavaOne Conference Rock Stars list for my presentation “Troubleshooting Java ME Technology: Tips from the Pros“. It is an honor to be included in a list of speakers like Josh Bloch, from Google, who did an excellent session titled “Effective Java Reloaded” and Dion Almaer, founder of Ajaxian who did a really nice Introduction to AJAX.

We’ve been using Google Analytics to track the usage of all of our web sites for a while now and I must say that it is one of the best web analytics tools I have used. Lately I’ve been digging into the Javascript code that I have to include into a page so that it can be tracked to see if it is possible to leverage Google Analytics to track Moblet usage.

mojax applications are effectively Javascript applications that run on a mobile device and as such share many of the characteristics of a browser with a few notable exceptions. As a result it should be possible to make all the same asynchronous calls that a web browser makes to the google tracking service within a mobile application. The implications should be obvious but a solution like this would provide the best insight into how a moblet is used as well as ways to improve upon it. I’ll post again on this issue once I have something up and running!

With the release of GMail Mobile, Google is changing the way the mobile industry distributes mobile applications and is validating the demand for non-entertainment based mobile application services. Along with Google Maps Mobile, Google is distributing mobile applications for free and directly to the consumer. As companies start to see the success of Google’s mobile applications more will start to look to mobile as the natural extension to their existing web applications. The reality, however, of building a mobile application for mass-market devices is not something a typical company can deliver due to the expense of developing a mobile application that will actually run across so many different devices.

mojax was designed from the start to enable companies and individuals without the resources of Google to create equally compelling mobile applications that run across most mass-market devices. In effect, anyone with AJAX development experience will be able to create applications of the quality of Google in a fraction of the time and with the resources they already have. The future is looking very bright!