Category Archives: Mowser

Mobile Search as a Web Service

Posted on February 9, 2008 by miker

I was poking around a bit today with identifying mobile search traffic. I dumped a few million records out of the Mowser traffic DB and parsed through the referer URLs to pull out keyword info from searches that land on … Continue reading →

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The “This is Mobile” Flag

Posted on February 4, 2008 by miker

I’m starting to see more and more folks use the handheld media type link to indicate when a mobile optimized version of their content is available. Excellent! However, as normally described it’s meant to point to the mobile version of … Continue reading →

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m.youtube.com from ATT/Cingular

Posted on January 31, 2008 by miker

While putting together the YouTube linking support on Mowser I noticed something odd. If I bring up a video from m.youtube.com while using the cellular connection in my N95 the flash player errors out before the video starts up, but … Continue reading →

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CSS Handling Updates at Mowser

Posted on January 29, 2008 by miker

Russ put up some CSS handling updates on Mowser meant to improve the presentation of sites when being adapted. It’s still pretty experimental, and we might have to add some different defaults in and expose additional controls to publishers. However … Continue reading →

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How Many Engineers Does it Take to Write a Weblog?

Posted on January 24, 2008 by miker

As suggested by Ewan we’ve now setup a Mowser Weblog specifically for our Mowser related ramblings. Which isn’t to say that I won’t also post stuff here, just that we’ll make sure any “Mowser info” will get posted over there. … Continue reading →

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Mowser => Mowser Inc.

Posted on January 22, 2008 by miker

I just got the paperwork back from our lawyers making it official that Mowser is now Mowser Inc.! Russ and I have been hacking away on the site adding new features, fixing bugs, and getting publishers integrated. But we’ve also … Continue reading →

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Total Mobile Access – Excellent Example of Difficulties

Posted on January 20, 2008 by miker

I went to the Pizza Hut site to see if the new store just around the corner from my house opened up and was greeted with a little flash animation informing me of “Total Mobile Access!!” for pizzahut.com. “How cool … Continue reading →

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Feeling Stylish

Posted on January 11, 2008 by miker

I just updated the Mowser WordPress Mobile plugin to add an option to include a link to a handheld stylesheet when generating headers. I put up a minimal stylesheet that you can point the plugin to if you just want … Continue reading →

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Open Web Analytics WordPress Plugin

Posted on January 10, 2008 by miker

One of the most kick ass plugins for WordPress is the Open Web Analytics plugin, I hear people raving about it pretty frequently. Unfortunately I also saw it causing some issues with blogs mobilized through Mowser. There were a few … Continue reading →

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Mowser Updates – Mobilized Feeds

Posted on January 5, 2008 by miker

Russ just posted about a new version of domain mapping we just released for Mowser. There are a bunch of little bug fixes in there as well. One other thing that made it into this version was mobilized feeds. Now … Continue reading →

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