Waheed Barghouthi on how to mobilize your Ruby on Rails (RoR) application?

1. How to mobilize your rails application
Waheed Barghouthi

2. Why we should care about mobile ?
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Mobile users have reached 2.7 billions users.
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Mobile Social Web will reach 975 Million users
by 2012.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mobile_social_web_growth.php
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In developing nations, a mobile phones
sometimes their only way to connect to the
Internet.
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Always with us, and always on,Images and
Video and GPS.

3. Some mobile stats

4. We could take an advantage of this,
HOW ?

5. 
Make you're application accessible
from web enabled mobiles devices.
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Keep your users engaged in all
events,ads,news,etc..
through SMS,MMS,Videos.

6. Simple knowledge to get over all
this.

7. WURFL!
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WURFL is a Device Description Repository, a
catalogue of mobile device information and a
framework for adaptation of mobile
applications.
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It gives us all the information about the mobile
we want to detect, we could know what kind of
HTML tags it supports, what variety of features,
the max screen resolution ..etc