Comments on: Mobio Mobile Mashups Go Beta

By: Kripson

Kripson — Wed, 23 May 2007 23:58:38 +0000

According to their FAQs, Mosio is a play on the term “Mociology”, “the study of human behaviour in a mobile world and the study of mobile device/phone lifestyles.” It was coined in 2005 by Ralph Simon, a leading mobile content expert.”

http://www.mosio.com/faq.html

I see mobio and oobio are taken, it looks like nobio.com expires on August 30, ripe for the pickins! :)

By: oobio

oobio — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:56:45 +0000

I wonder where they got the idea for that name ;)

By: Tathagata

Tathagata — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:21:54 +0000

I am a product manager at Webaroo, and we just beta launched our mobile client (mobile.webaroo.com), a J2ME app that offers your web to go. You can access your favorite web services, rss feeds, web content and more on your mobile phone.

With limited screen space, we believe personalization is the key to offering a better user experience. Our app allows users to build / customize their library of content. Also, our app caches content wherever possible to provide a faster and always-on browsing experience. The app is fairly light weight (~ 148KB) and is supported on many devices (http://mobile.webaroo.com/supported-devices), with more devices to follow.

By: Kripson

Kripson — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:59:43 +0000

Have heard a lot of talk, but just got an email from them that it doesn’t work with Verizon yet. Definitely interested to check it out if/when they get there.

In the meantime, I’m sticking with Mosio http://www.mosio.com - it’s not free (subscription-based, $3.95/month), but it’s very cool and it works with my carrier.

By: momer

momer — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:53:32 +0000

It’s crap.

They will get their ass handed to them by mojax.mfoundry.com. Which has already been in beta for sometime.

And it works.

How DID these people get $12m !!?

By: Dr. Feelbad

Dr. Feelbad — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:04:21 +0000

Bob Jenkins:
What make you think I need to qualify myself to you in order to have an opinion?
You are a megalomaniac. However, I’ll tell you what I didn’t do: I didn’t release a Beta that didn’t work.
I understand that a Beta will have some flaws. This product is (still) crap. Why are you such a cheerleader? And why should we listen to your opinion?

By: james

james — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:02:02 +0000

I second this. What crap. Didn’t work on three phones I tried. In fact it locked, and now I can’t even delete it. What’s worse they don’t even have their desktop ajax working properly to register there. What are they spending their money on?

By: john

john — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:20:44 +0000

How in hell they got 12 mil, the app does not even login. It’s crap!

By: Bob Jenkins

Bob Jenkins — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:33:25 +0000

Anon & Dr Feelbad…what exactly have you done in mobile that is so fantastic?

You make yourselves look like fools with these comments…at least be constructive.

In my view it is a smart approach to fixing a vexing problem in mobile. I can agree with some of the comment about their beta and it needs more work (it is a BETA!) but if Mobio can develop this a bit further it will be everything Yahoo Go, Widsets, Google Maps and those others want to be, but are not.

And that isn’t bad start for a start up.

By: Nick Gonzalez

Nick Gonzalez — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:08:20 +0000

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to try it out because I only have a blackberry, which the platform doesn’t support yet.

Anyway, I think the concept is a good one. Mobile really needs a better platform for running applications than needing to install a new Java program for every new application. The idea of having one program that can seamlessly run other (even simple) programs is a good one.

The feeling I’m getting is that mobile companies are stymieing the development of open standards in order to maintain their control over the network and their users. If you can go to any network and get the same set of features, then carriers will be forced to compete only on price for voice and data plans.

Maybe it’s the webapp part of me talking, but I think that to be competitive in the long run, mobile carriers need to get in the mobile web application business. Otherwise, other mobile companies are going to own the killer apps of the future.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:48:42 +0000

Beta release (relaunch of Beta!) is no excuse. Anyway, their service is useless.

I agree with comment #3. It is crap.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:22:59 +0000

Mobio’s application has great potential and am really excited to test it out. I saw their demo at DEMO and it looks awesome. For those claiming its not great yet, first it is a BETA release and a fresh one at that…second, do you understand how freaking hard it is to do what they are attempting to do? Actually make an app lightweight and split the architecture to put the heavy lifting on the backend so the app runs light on the phone? Not easy and won’t be conquered in a day, but over time should be the winning combination.

By: Dr. Feelbad

Dr. Feelbad — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:39:36 +0000

I downloaded it. Sorry this is crap.

By: Joakim

Joakim — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:57:12 +0000

Definiteley interesting to see new ventures in the mobile media space.

I work for Mobispine which is a mobile media company that mobilizes existing web-based content. Already today you can find more than 20,000 RSS-feeds in the mobile directory.
End-users simply download a very small Java client (

By: anon

anon — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:26:33 +0000

Mobio has nothing new to offer. At two separate events when the demo didn’t work Mobio management seemed clueless.