Mobile Web Ecosystem – Taxonomy – have I missed anything?

Note: This is a continiously updated post. Many thanks for your contributions(list of contributors below to my original list)

Hello

Earlier this year, I created a conference called Mobile Web Megatrends. Next year, we intend to expand it significantly

I want to create a mobile web ecosystem(and then work towards the emerging trends)

How about the below? Have I missed anything? These are the broad trends/technologies I have been tracking.

kind rgds

Ajit

Browsers (i.e. phones and operators within browsers)

- Opera

- Safari

- Chrome

- Android

- webkit

- RIA (Rich Internet applications)

- skyfire?

- Access

- Purple Labs (which acquired OpenWave mobile)

- Microsoft/windows

Phones (Nokia, Samsung, LG, Motorola, SE, Others)

Operators

Standards

- W3C one web initiative

- Microformats (Microformats are small bits of HTML that represent things like people, events, tags, etc. in web pages.)

http://mobiforge.com/analysts/blog/one-web-why-does-stir-such-emotion

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/technology

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/techstack-desc.html

http://microformats.org/ http://microformats.org/about/

http://microformats.org/wiki/what-are-microformats

http://microformats.org/wiki/get-started

http://microformats.org/wiki/faq

Innovation and evolution

- Gears/offline browsing

- open source ecosystems

- Widgets

- Javascript enhancements(Chrome, JS libraries)

- Cloud

- Location including Cell id databases

- SIM/Smart card web server

- APIs (GSMA, OpenAjax, Bondi, Gears, RCS)

- Browser plugins(MS Silverlight, Mozilla,W3C)

- Social network APIs

- QR codes

- Local web

- Mobile search

Trutap, metatxt, Jumptap, Google

- Facebook browser

- Mozilla Fennec

- New android browsers(steel) and others

- Privacy within the browser ecosystem

- Near Field Communications

- Rich Presence – more than just online/offline status but converged with enterprise Unified Communications systems to see hierarchical status of people, systems and processes.

- Sensor based interaction, Cloud computing and the Internet of things

- Asynchronous activation, background processing

- Mobile virtualization

Integration of Web and other technologies

- Calling the web from other applications(embedding)

- Caling MIDP from the Mobile Web

- Calling other native apps from the mobile web

Networks

- Cellular networks

- IMS

- LTE

- Radio Frequency Networks: such as Bluetooth, WiFi, WiMAx & Mesh

- HSUPA and HSDPA

Business models

- Advertising

- Payments

- flat rate pricing

- App store and Mobile services platforms ( Nokia Ovi, Apple App Store, Google Android Apps, Blackberry App Store, MS Mobile “Skymarket, Sony Ercisson X1, Google apps labs)

- Social media content

- Social networks

- Media(video, audio etc)

Platforms

- S60

- S40

- dot mobi

Non phone devices

- Nintendo Wii

- Amazon Kindle?

- Other gaming consoles that have a web interface

Emerging markets

- India, China, Russia Brazil, Africa

Advanced markets

- Korea

- Japan

- USA

- Europe

Comparisons

- Flashlite

- Qualcomm BREW & Plaza

- on-device portals SurfKitchen / Action Engine

- Java

User Experience

Thanks to all who commented

Dr Bruce Scharlau

Dean Bubley

James Pearce

Gerry Winsor

Shane williamson

Kery Ritz

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