My Mobile Site widgets launched
Guest blogger: Marton Szomolanyi
I have also the opportunity to introduce my application by myself on the Beta Labs blog. Thanks to Tommi also from me. With my colleagues I have been working on this application in close cooperation with Nokia Mobile Web Server team (thanks to Jukka Eklund and others for their support). Thanks also to those guys outside the world who participated in our closed beta-trial and gave us many useful feedbacks. Thank you, thank you, thank you! 
My Mobile Site widgets is an application building fully on top of Mobile Web Server technology. That’s why we call it an extension. This application is in practice a set of smaller applications running on the PC. They are desktop widgets run by Yahoo! Widgets engine and they show information about the phone and provide access to some mobile features like SMS sending on the PC desktop. On the mobile side Mobile Web Server serves the requests of the widgets using some tiny Python scripts.
Our goal was to nicely integrate the mobile phone into the user’s “desktop experience” and utilize the current coexistence of PC and mobile phone. Desktop widgets give a nice opportunity to show you relevant information in a polite way while you are using your PC and allow you to use the good UI capabilities of the PC (bigger keyboard and screen) for mobile related features.
With these widgets we also wanted to demonstrate another way of using Mobile Web Server platform. This platform gives everyone the opportunity to implement such applications without deep S60 knowledge. If you are interested, then go to the wiki, learn how to develop them and start to implement your own widgets.
So have fun with it and let us know how you like it: What was the most/least useful widget? Were there any annoying usability issues? What features are you missing? What kind of new widgets would you like to see? How do you like Yahoo! Widgets? Currently that seems to be one of the most popular engines, but if there are good reasons then we can experiment with other engines too.
I would love to see these ported over to KDE’s new Plasma engine. =)
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How about supporting Windows Vista gadgets, as well as Google Desktop, etc.
Comment by KO — January 29, 2008 @ 6:30 pm
@KO: What support for one engine on your platform isn’t enough?
Porting over to OS X’s engine (I forget the name offhand) would be a good step as well, and from what I recall hearing from the Yahoo guys their engine is pretty similar. That was a while back though so things may have changed….
Comment by malaeum — January 29, 2008 @ 7:12 pm
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Vista Sidebar gadgets and Mac OS X Dashboard widgets please, so many native widget engine are available that I won’t install yahoo widgets
Comment by Fernando — January 29, 2008 @ 8:09 pm
yeah, i am with Fernando (previous post) on this!
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Very smart, very cool! Amazing light-weight integration of PC and phone without the need for proprietary components.
Good work!
Comment by Zoltan Szentesi — January 30, 2008 @ 8:02 pm
These are not working for me.
I have modified the widget config to my address and tried to login but windows vista throws up an additional dialog (windows like) prompting me to log in again and that will not accept my mobile site login credentials.
So I cancel and the widgets login attempt fails with the ! box etc . . .
Any ideas ?
ttfn
Dave
Comment by David Smith — January 30, 2008 @ 9:06 pm
would this work with PAMP? I am interested in making some facebook apps and using PHP with the mobile web server… any information you can give will be great. of course I need to look closer myself too.
Comment by Wai Seto — January 30, 2008 @ 10:32 pm
Wai Seto, PAMP is based on the same technology just adding PHP and MySQL (in addition to Apache). So you don’t need PAMP necessarily but if you do you can run both PAMP and our MWS in the same phone.
Comment by Jukka Eklund — January 31, 2008 @ 2:01 pm
pls develope the suport for n70 also
Comment by ranjith — January 31, 2008 @ 2:31 pm
Dave,
looks like an authentication error.
Yahoo! Widgets uses the Internet Explorer for the http connectivity. Type in the same address to IE and try to login from there. If you are able to login than it should work in the widget also.
Comment by Marton Szomolanyi — February 1, 2008 @ 6:33 pm
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