Top 30 Mobile Websites

Update: For the most current data (all of 2008), please see Top Mobile Websites for 2008. Last September, I reported on the top 20 mobile websites that readers of my mobile website list (Cantoni.mobi) were clicking on. Since six months have gone by, I thought it was a perfect time for an update. Today I present the “top 30” mobile websites as recorded on Cantoni.mobi. These results are captured by my MyBlogLog community widget which reports on not just page views, but links clicked http://www.massagemetro.com/shop/ exiting the site. The same caveat applies: any mobile browser with Javascript either disabled or…

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Twitter in Plain English

If you haven’t yet seen the Explanations in Plain English series from Common Craft, you really need to go check them out. The latest in the series came out this week and it’s titled “Twitter in Plain English”. Common Craft has created a simple but effective presentation method using paper cut-outs and a whiteboard to explain technical topics.

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Comments Anyone?

Part of my motivation for finally upgrading this site to the latest version of Movable Type was to allow comments to once again be possible. Among other problems, the comment spam handling was limited, so real comments were getting lost in the noise. With the upgrade complete, I think I’ve got it set correctly to take anonymous comments that don’t require registration or even an email address. With that I have a favor to ask: if you’ve got a minute to spare, could you come visit this entry on my blog and leave a comment? Thanks!

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Movable Type Archive Widget Performance

As part of my Movable Type 4.1 upgrade project, I noticed that depending on my template settings, republishing the whole site would get extremely slow. Movable Type sometimes catches flak for this because it’s designed to serve static pages, so the "build" time tends to be a bit slower. (A good tradeoff in my opinion.) There is much room for improvement on the rebuild times. It looks like the next release of Movable Type will focus on performance and scalability, so here’s my first contribution to that effort. After some trial and error, I discovered that the Archives sidebar widget…

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