I've put up an OPML-powered mobile directory. 

opmlpop is now on MeFi Projects, an announcement page for MeFi users who've built web projects. Must remember to post future projects on there. And to get my finger out and improve the opmlpop experience. 

Even after all that rant, who wants to build an OPML-powered mobile directory?  

Google shoot for mobiles in London 

The Times is reporting that Google is considering a move to London and is likely to have a large focus on the mobile market.

I'm really not sure how Google are going to do in the mobile market. Despite the fact that technology is relevant in both the mobile and Internet markets, it's really very different.

I think that the mobile market will last a few more years, until the data price froth dies down. Once the price and speed of data transfer goes down, the real fun is going to happen. The mobile web is expensive, unreliable, clunky and very unintuitive. The real web is free and beautiful, and open.

The mobile web just feels like it's where the real web was about a decade ago. I can access Gmail on my phone, but it takes five minutes to load and costs 20p a pop. Yes, it's cool, but what's the point?

On 3G, it currently costs £23 a month for 65Mb. Holy shit. I download that amount of data every couple of hours simply in podcasts.

The setup required so that I could actually do something meaningful with my mobile connection took me days of hunting around for drivers so that I could hook my laptop up to my phone. If we're lucky, Google will make the mobile web a little bit more human-friendly.

I want to access the web with a mobile device, but not a mobile phone. I also don't want to pay an outrageous amount for it.

Also, Vodafone have an even more fascist definition of "unlimited" than all our shitty ISPs. Unlimited does not mean 1Gb. Unlimited means "as much as you bloody well want to".

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