Mobile Web Specialists are Hot Property

While all the talk in 2010 was about apps, companies have been quietly going about their significant business on the mobile web and in 2011 agencies, advertisers and brands have realised that they need to work and partner with mobile web specialists if they are to prosper in an increasingly mobilised world. Last week’s acquisition [...]

Mind the Gap…and its Approach to Mobile

Clothes and accessories retailer Gap claimed last week that its investment in mobile has helped the company treble its online conversions over the past 12 months. Citing its new mobile commerce platfrom, targeted mobile ads and a GPS-based store locator, Gap told its investors that integrating mobile into its overall strategy is beginning to pay [...]

Can you afford to be Mobile-Lazy?

There has been significant adoption of mobile web over the last 12 months and the impetus is growing. I’ve noticed various studies citing 2010 mobile website figures at about 3 million and with the recent growth in this sector I imagined these numbers to now be well in excess of this. So this week I [...]

OPINION: The time has come for the mobile web, says Wapple

Brands and developers that don’t optimise sites for mobile are failing their customers, writes Wapple COO Anne Thomas… These are heady days for the mobile web. After any number of false dawns, it would appear that its time has finally come. While it is difficult to pinpoint any particular tipping point for the channel, the [...]

Bing Search Near Me

Stuck for something to do when out and about? Or maybe you’re desperate for a pizza but don’t know where to get one? Well all these problems and more have been solved with the latest chunk to be added to Wapple Canvas. It’s called the Bing Search Near Me chunk and is an integration with [...]

Integrating Wapple Architect and Wapple Canvas

Ever since we first created Wapple Architect, you could use it to integrate with Wapple Canvas features. In fact, loading a menu built with Canvas onto an Architect site was one of the first operations we ever performed with our fledging new mobile markup language. But as we’ve improved the Architect schema, one area of [...]

Graphic Wallpaper Chunk for Canvas

We’ve made it even easier in Wapple Canvas to deliver your uploaded graphics as downloadable wallpapers. Upload a source graphic, create a Graphic Wallpaper chunk on your page, and configure it how you want – your users will be able to view and download a perfectly sized wallpaper to their handset. And that’s every handset [...]

Amobee Integrated with Wapple Canvas

We have integrated Amobee into Wapple Canvas so you can deliver Amobee adverts on your mobile site!

Podcast on Making money and mobilizing your wordpress blog

Last week I did a podcast with Brian Prows from MobileBeyond. We went through quite a bit – from how you can mobilize your WordPress blog with our mobile plugin to how in a future release of the plugin you’ll be able to place Mobile Adverts on your blog and make a bit of money [...]

Perhaps the BBC read MobileWebJunkie

I am pleased to say that since my recent rant, the BBC have started to render correctly for my Android handset. I have the mobile version again. I am happy.