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As I mentioned a few weeks ago, Trey Harvin, dotMobi CEO, was shortlisted for the Mobile Internet Innovation award.
I'm delighted to report that Trey went home last night with the award!
Congratulations to all the dotMobi team!
DotMobi has been promoting their Instant Mobilizer service to website / domain owners to encourage them to make their websites "mobile friendly".
Public voting is currently open, so why not cast your vote?
The awards ceremony is scheduled to take place in Dublin on May 21st 2009 as part of the Association's annual congress.
There was quite a bit of controversy surrounding the last auction which seems to have left a bad taste in some people's mouths.
The next auction was originally scheduled to take place on January 23rd, but has now been postponed.
According to a post yesterday on the company's blog:
our goal has been to identify a way forward that is fairest to all and that best facilitates the development of high-quality content for mobile web users. After further review, we have been able to identify some cases where it may be possible to allocate registration tokens without an auction (and without substantial controversy). The remaining names will be included in a new auction.The revenue from the auction of premium domains is used by the company to fund the promotion of the namespace to users, including the development of tools for web developers.
As one of the named investors in dotmobi this move is actually a bit late when you consider that there are already a number of other companies who were "first to market" and probably have gained an advantage with the mobile developer community.
In terms of the interface there's no big change. It's pretty much the same as any other adsense product with a choice of palettes etc.,
If anyone has a chance to play with it I'd love to hear how they get on
DUBLIN, Ireland and WASHINGTON, DC - September 12, 2007 - dotMobi, the consortium behind the only Internet address created specifically for mobile phones, has appointed Trey Harvin, longtime Internet and technology veteran, as CEO of dotMobi and David Ryder as VP of Marketing and Sales. In their respective roles, Harvin and Ryder will be charged with building on the success of dotMobi to date and taking the company forward with more innovative products for expanding the use of the mobile web.
Over the past year, Dublin-based dotMobi has launched its developer portal and associated tools - dev.mobi, site.mobi and ready.mobi - and has also seen approximately 700,000 .mobi domains registered.
With more than three million indexed pages of dotMobi content currently available, the world's biggest brands including BMW, The Sun newspaper, Disney, Paramount, Maxim magazine, Ferrari, Rolls Royce, Microsoft and Google have launched .mobi sites, prompting .mobi development in key industry sectors such as travel, media, real estate, automobiles and entertainment.
"With this strong foundation, dotMobi is entering a new and exciting growth phase," said Trey Harvin, CEO of dotMobi. "In the next two quarters we will focus on growing mobile services for the development community and the enterprise with the launch of key products such as the our device database and search services."
Neil Edwards, who was the founding CEO of dotMobi and who grew the company from a fledgling concern to a vital part of the mobile Web infrastructure, will pursue opportunities closer to his family in the United States.
Jerry Easom, Chairman of the dotMobi Board, said, "On behalf of the Board, I thank Neil for his strong efforts in bringing dotMobi to life. Over the past two years, he has worked closely with the 14 investor members of the Board to create a simple way for consumers around the world to find and access content on their mobile phones. His work has helped grow the global use of mobile Internet significantly. We are also happy to welcome Trey Harvin and David Ryder to the senior management team to continue the good work."
Harvin will assume responsibilities as CEO immediately, having worked closely with Edwards to ensure a smooth transition. Among his initial projects will be a launch of an open database service designed to assist developers in building mobile content and a new, leading-edge mobile content database.
Harvin, previously a senior executive and management consultant at several wireless and Internet start-up technology companies, served as Vice President of Business Operations at leading internet company VeriSign. He also was Vice President of Product Development at Network Solutions as well as Network Solutions' Chief of Staff.
Ryder has extensive mobile experience as VP Operations and Sales of the ESPN Mobile division as well as several senior management roles at British Telecom, specializing in Marketing, Product Development and Technology across fixed, mobile and Internet.
It will be very interesting to see if Edwards' replacement will have the same passion and drive that made Edwards such an interesting and charismatic character.
There are a few reasons for this:
- I've met most of the team and thought they were cool people
- They're actually based in Ireland and employ Irish people (yes that is a bit of national pride you're seeing!)
- They seem to have a vision and a mission
- They're trying (and succeeding) to make the mobile web a reality
- They've been following up on their promises
- They dont' seem to have as many issues with cybersquatters etc.,
- They seem to be much more engaged with end users via their blogs and other channels
In fact, dotMobi has a standing offer. If you ever buy a dotMobi name and have a problem building conent, contact us. We will either help you directly, provide you with a tool or connect you with firm who can help you.Now that is cool!
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