TechCrunch Prague

There will be TechCrunch meetup in Prague on Friday, May 23, 2008 from 7pm, at Restaurant Zvonarka.
This party is organized by Jack from Nelso.

Wirenode is sponsoring the party together with Geewa, Gooddata and Newstin.

More than 100 people will be attending, so if you are in Prague, you are welcomed.

Mashable startup review

Thanks to Mashable and Sun Startup Essentials, we got very nice review on Mashable blog.

Read the review

Thank you all!

Mobile Facebook

We have just recently released our platform for Facebook.

You can add our Mobile websites creator widget to your account. It will allow you to create your mobile website and automatically link it together with your mobile Facebook profile at m.facebook.com

Our Facebook app demonstrate, how we can integrate our project to 3rd party websites. If you have website with mobile games or ring tones, Blog publishing platform or simple website with SMS, we can integrate Wirenode to your project and you can let your users to create mobile websites.

We have won Creative Mobile Award 2007

Our project for creating mobile websites has won Creative Mobile Award 2007 competition in the Czech Republic.

This competition is organized every year by Tuesday Business Network. We had some of our projects there every year in last 3 years and finally we have won.
This means, Wirenode is the most innovative mobile project in the Czech Republic, at least we would like to think that ;-)

Thanks to everybody who supported us and of course the whole Wirenode team.

New home page

We have released new version of the Wirenode mobile internet platform yesterday.

We have fixed a lot of bugs since the last release, but the main difference you will probably notice is the new home page. We think that we improved it over the last one significantly. Its more clean, less confusing and tells what it needs to tell.

We have spend some nice time discussing how our home page should looks like. The main criteria was, that it needs to be simple, with few texts and visitor needs to understand what the site is about in reasonable amount of time.

We were looking what other popular web 2.0 system has on home page, here I will post some webs we were looking at.

Collaborative goals websites:
www.43things.com and superviva.com
Two same project, each with different home page. We prefer 43things home page, because its more simple and I think less confusing.

Web analytics websites:
crazyegg.com and www.clicktale.com
Two same project, different home page, but only a little different. We think Egg's home page is a little bit better.
I was thinking how to improve those last two home pages if I were in their shoes, but I did not have any brilliant idea how to do it.


If you can look at our new home page and write us some feedback or ideas how to improve it in the future, please let me know.

Mobile Web

I have just came across very nice article from Ewan MacLeod about The Mobile Web and the ‘m.’ solution. I agree with almost everything in the article and if you are interested in Mobile Web, I recommend you to read it.

Interesting is also a debate in comments, about what approach to use: m.something.com or something.mobi. I think both approaches will coexists together. Big sites will use "m.", because they are afraid what .mobi guys can do one day (.com domain have better rules/legislation), but smaller sites and projects will be fine with .mobi domain. We at Wirenode have several of them and are quite happy.

New version of our mobile page creator

Everything is done and we would like to introduce you the new version of our WEB 2.0 project. See screenshot bellow.
The most important changes are:

• Better design which is more compact and more flexible
  
• Improved RSS support
  
• New wiki for documentation which is going to be filled in in a few days
• Better iPhone layouts for all pages

And finally

• New mobile portal at the address http://wirenode.mobi try it now from your mobile phone.

In the Wirenode.com platform, we now host about 2000 mobile pages. We believe, that all new changes will help new and and old users too.

Please let us know what do you think.

Mobile Analytics waiting for Google?

Does anybody know about some nice Mobile Analytics solution, something like Google Analytics, but for mobile websites?

The solution should show these basic statistics:

• Unique visitors per day/month/year
• Page views per day/month/year and per visitor
• Mobile phone types
• Countries of visits
  
• Mobile operators per country and wap or Internet APN
• Referrers (not very well supported on older phones)

There are several attempts from Mobilestats, Amethon or Redboss (now Mliven), but non of them are really user friendly and open as it should be. To track mobile users using webalizer or awstats is not useful either, because two few IP addresses used, so there is no good mechanizm how to track unique visitors.

My personal opinion is, that there are no Mobile Analytics project simply because everybody is waiting on Google.
If you start this kind of project and Google will launch it one month later, you are doomed and you can maybe close your project if you don't find any value added services, which Google is not offering. I believe, that good solution could be premium (for example statistics about operators) and the whole project can be profitable next year (if Google will not do it).

So dear Google, when we can start looking forward your mobile version of analytics?

Mobile friendly blogs at WapReview.com

WapReview have published nice article where it compares various methods how you can make your blog mobile = your readers will be able to read it from their mobile phones.

As you see, we don't have some features which other projects are offering. This is going to change quickly. We are testing new version of our platform right now. It will have new design, will fix some bugs and finally will support wirenode.mobi portal. The portal will be considered "stable" in next release and after a while, we will start promoting it. It will be the first portal, where if you don't have your mobile site, you could create it from scratch ;-).

Silicon Valley (and TechCrunch 20)

These are some unsorted photos from my Silicon Valley trip with Petr Kral from Skillr.

See Lions at Fisherman Wharf.


At Accel Partners I had a chance to speak with Richard P. Wong who sits in Admob.com board of directors. Pity that they already cooperate with Volantis, one of our competitor.


Office of Tagged, the were sponsoring Lunch 2.0 and have very nice office.


San Francisco from a ship going to Alcatraz Island.


Alcatraz Island.


Hotel rooms at Alcatraz are not very comfortable :-).


Japan garden in Golden Gate park. Pity you have to pay to enter it.


Classic Fireman's car.


University at Standford.


Fleet Week, where we saw Blue Angels, USA top pilots.


Crazy Burning Man party at San Francisco.


Golden Gate Bridge. From Fisherman Whaft it took us couple of hours to go there.


CalTrain, the train we used to travel around Silicon Valley. If you are an VC and never used it, here is how it looks from inside. Its quite comfortable and cheap travel.


See shelf on our way to Santa Cruz.


Crazy Santa Cruz decorated cars festival. This city is weird anyway ;-).


This 160 room house is an attraction in the Valley. I am glad we have real Castles in the Czech Republic ;-).


China town festival.


Unique skyscraper.


Me and Petr after a busy day.


A very long street in SF, one of many.


Golden Gate bridge.


TechCrunch 20/40 Wirenode stand in the DemoPit.


Classical burger restaurant.


Plug and Play Tech Center, where was another conference where i have been pitching.


Yes, its Guy Kawasaki. We had paid $20 to visit one of his speech. He is really good. This one was about how he started Truemors.


What is this? I can tell you it doesn't taste as one we have here.


Union Square in center of SF with many expensive shops. Those shops have some really nice clothes, but coat from Armani for $6000 was just too expensive for me ;-))


Old famous tram.



TechCrunch conference.


DemoPit at TechCrunch during the day.

Lunch 2.0

Julie Sloane from Wired News wrote very nice report from Lunch 2.0 party at San Francisco last Friday.
What is cool, is that she mentioned Wirenode and my Silicon Valley trip in her article. Thank you Julie for that.
Lunch 2.0 was nice event, the Tagged office is really cool and shows how "investors money are spend" ;-). when I spoke with their CEO about their mobile version, he told me its not their priority at the moment. Looks like they have to compete very hard in the Internet space with MySpace and others right now.

Two different widgets

We currently offer you two different widgets you can put on your blog to show others, that they can read it on their mobile phones. You already did it, right ? :-)










examples

Mobilize your blog in less than one minute

This week, we have released new cool feature. If you have your blog and want to allow your readers to read it from mobile phones, it is now really easy.

1. Go to www.wirenode.com.
2. Enter your blog URL in "Mobilize your blog" section on the main page.
3. Follow instructions and choose your domain.
4. Put promotional Widget to web version of your blog.
5. Done.

Try it, its really easy.

Conference

Thanks everybody who stepped by at DemoPit at TechCrunch 40.

I have got quite a lot of interesting contacts to people, several VC's and angel investors.
I will start co contact them and hopefully getting meetings ;-), I will tell you how it goes.

DemoPit at TechCrunch 20/40 conference

We will present our mobile web hosting platform at the TechCrunch 20/40 conference in the Demo Pit! During Tuesday 18th, you can visit there our table and I will give you live demonstration of what our platform can do.
I plan to stay at the Silicon Valley area for some time (about 4 weeks). If you would like to meet, please send me email at tomas.zeman@wirenode.com. I will be looking for partners or investors for our project there.

I am looking forward to see you there!
September 18th, DemoPit at TechCrunch 20/40 conference, San Francisco