Wirkle goes Global

Wirkle was selected among the finalists of the Mobile Monday Global Peer Awards 2007. Stay tuned to hear us at the Global Peer Awards in Barcelona on Feb 12. We'll have Harsh Dhundia, our director of business development, representing us.

The one bad part was that the finalists were announced a week and a half before the event. Now for us in India, getting a visa for Spain takes time approximately 2 weeks. Even for Harsh who's in the US we got the visa on Friday and he had to fly on Saturday.

We owe this to our COO, Lomesh Dutta, who nominated us for the awards from the Mobile Monday Delhi chapter, prepared our pitch for the event, made sure that we get selected and even coordinated the visa/travel for Barcelona ... thanks Lomesh.

Wirkle at Mobile Monday Delhi on Jan 20, 2007

The second Mobile Monday of the Delhi chapter was organized in Noida on Jan 20. Wirkle was one of the proud organizers of the event and I had the opportunity to talk about what we do at Wirkle and our vision ... yup, thats me.

My presentation was centered around whats going on in the mobile web and what does the future hold for us. Today, the mobile web is a happening space with lots of stuff happening all over the globe. Lets discuss some of those.

• The conventional web - i.e., viewing existing websites on the phone ... opera mini is by far the leader in this space. I think the opera mini is one of the best mobile browsers around, however, given that the web as it stands today was designed for the PC, the experience that you would get on the phone can never be as good.
• The mobile web - i.e., all your wml, chtml, xhtml websites that are specifically designed for the phone. The user experience therein is definitely better than conventional websites but there is still room for improvement. The reason I say that is ... people often have to resort to mobile apps to provide that level of usability, e.g., despite there being a mobile portal to access gmail ... they had to come up with a mobile app for gmail. If we analyze that in a little more detail ... I think this comes up from that fact that the mobile markup languages have their roots in html and html was never designed for the phone.
  
• Mobile Applications - Mobile applications provide a highly usable interface to access content, however, they don't give you the capability to access any content. Those are specifically designed for a particular type of content and one can only access that.

We at Wirkle have our own vision / technology for the mobile world and all of our products are centered around that. Take a look at my slides below ... and see if they make sense to you.

Lousy Blogger

I must admit ... I am a very lousy blogger. My last post was on Jan 13, approx 3 weeks back. The fact is that Wirkle has kept me awfully busy these past days ... and a lot has been happening. There is a lot to write about ... stay tuned !!!