Weblogs, Inc/Blogsmith goes mobile!

Filed under: AOL, Blogsmith, Netscape, Weblogs, Inc.

Here is the internal AOL message I just sent to everyone...

Team AOL,

We are blessed to have the greatest, kick-ass, take no prisoner, samurai, rouge, dev team on the planet working for us at Blogsmith/WIN/Netscape.

Today they surprised me by creating a mobile version of all of our sites-- THIS IS NOW A DEFAULT FEATURE IN BLOGSMITH!!!

Create a blog, get a mobile site free! Also, it is autodetect... it knows you're on a mobile phone and sends you to the right place.

w00t!

details here:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/engadget-done-right-for-your-cellphone/

best j
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Jason McCabe Calacanis
CEO, Weblogs, Inc., An AOL Company.
GM, Netscape.com
Office: 310-979-5654 | Mobile: 310-456-4900
Blog: http://www.calacanis.com
Yahoo/AOL IM: jasoncalacanis

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Hey Bloggers,

We are here at CodeJam 7 and adding some very cool features to the platform. One of the first things to be rolled out is Mobile support for WAP enabled devices. This will be rolling out to all blogs but currently it is running on the following blogs:

- Autoblog
- Cinematical
- Download Squad
- Engadget
- Engadget Mobile
- EngadgetHD
- Joystiq
- TUAW
- TV Squad

To view this take your cell phone or PDA and just point to the site as you normally would. We will auto-detect the device and send it a special page.If you have a device that doesn't send correct headers (Like sidekick or PSP) you will be able to manually go to the page by going to m.domainname.com. (but note: this currently isn't working on any blog)

For screenshots of what this looks like check out the following Engadget post:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/engadget-done-right-for-your-cellphone/

Big thanks to Mike and Matt (our new designer) for designing and rolling this out to all the sites and Brian, Celly and Alex for night-o-crazy-testing!

We have some other neat things in the pipes so stay tuned.

Gavin
Blogsmith Lead Developer

Sep 26th 2006 1:05AM
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Posted at 2:19PM on Sep 26th 2006 by tom

2. Comment 1 - WTF? Anyway, the new system rocks the house down. Mobile blogs are so this century...

Posted at 3:44PM on Sep 26th 2006 by Ryan Carter

3. What an obvious but sadly overlooked feature. Why shouldn't blogs also be mobile-device accessible. I think portable, customizable media will definitely factor in to the near and distant future.

Posted at 5:41PM on Sep 26th 2006 by Dave

4. will we ever get a public version?

Posted at 6:12PM on Sep 26th 2006 by jeremy

5. Jason, care to have your developers show how it's done, or are you keeping it a trade secret? ;-) I looked at the source and didn't see what I expected, something like [style type="text/css" media="handheld"]

Posted at 8:35PM on Sep 26th 2006 by Amyloo

6. Yay! Now I can peruse through Engadget on my BlackBerry when I'm bored in classs. Thanks for the pointer, Jason.

Posted at 10:45PM on Sep 26th 2006 by anonymous

7. this fucking rocks

i've been asking typepad for this for a while now.

it's essential for any blogging platform.

well done.

Posted at 9:51PM on Sep 27th 2006 by fred

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