US Election Results Sites – Mobile
Election Day is winding down in the United States with many of the states’ polls closed and others open for just a few more hours. Who will win? The whole world is watching, and so are we — from our mobile phones. The following is a small sampling of mobile website covering the election results. Please feel free to add your own in the comments section.
News Sites
Here are some .mobi sites with election headlines and stories:
Candidates’ Microblogs
If you’d like to read what the candidates have to say in real time, they are both microblogging on Twitter. Here’s the mobile version of their messages:
John McCain’s Twitter Timeline
Barack Obama’s Twitter Timeline
Election Video
Mippin has video in 3gp format for smartphones, including iphones.
Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic Party candidate for President of the United States, is now using a dot mobi domain name to reach supporters and potential supporters on their mobile phones. ObamaMobile.mobi is the latest in a series of technology tools implemented in the campaign to keep in touch, along with text messaging, facebook (Computer Link), twitter, LinkedIn (Computer link), and a myriad of other Web 2.0 tools.
Obama’s mobi site includes a biography, news, wallpaper, an option to forward to a friend, and a political poll where users can provide their opinion to the candidate. There are also sections for videos and ringtones.
For the developers reading this mobi blog, the Obama mobi site uses tables for structure (perhaps the next version will use CSS) and therefore appears to be designed for iPhones and Blackberry devices, both of which can view tables for structure (a fail on ready.mobi). The Obama mobi site scores 2/5 on ready.mobi. It also has a fail for page size, which means people who do not have unlimited data plans may find themselves with a large phone bill after downloading the site. On the plus site, there appears to be different graphics sizes, which may indicate there are separate files for device detection.
The decision for Senator Obama to use a .mobi site over a .com mobile name is another milestone for the young domain extension. We’ll keep you posted.
