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Updated del.icio.us Support

You now have the option of mobilfying your del.icio.us bookmarks. Click on your preferences tab to set your preference. You can choose from none (pages displayed unmodified), mobilfy with images, or mobilfy without images.

T1 Back Up

The T1 is finally back online. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Technical Difficulties

We are experiencing some technical difficulties with our T1. The T1 has been down since about 12:00am this morning.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

Power is Back

The power is finally back. Everything is up and running as normal.

Power Outage

We had a major storm that knocked out the power last night and, at the time of this post, the power is still down. Hopefully it will be back soon.

Default Mobile Bookmarks

When a new account is created it is now populated with a default set of mobile bookmarks. These bookmarks will serve as a good starting point for surfing the mobile web.

Mobilfier Update

The mobilfier has been updated to pass through content already formatted for the mobile phone. A simple "Save to Mobleo" link, as well as a "My bookmarks" link,  now appear at the bottom of these pages. Basically now you can surf the mobile net using mobleo and you and bookmark just about everything directly from the page you are on as you surf. More updates are in the works.

New Code Release

Last night I released some new code. Bookmarks can be now added, edited, arranged, and deleted from your mobile phone. In other words you no longer need a desktop computer to manage your bookmarks, you can manage them directly from your phone.

The new interface is modal and there are four modes, surf, edit, arrange, and delete. You enter a mode by selecting from the menu at the top of the screen. Once you have selected a mode the interface will remain in that mode until another mode is selected.

Here is a brief description of the modes...

• Surf mode - For surfing the net using your bookmarks. This mode is used most often and is the default mode.
• Edit mode - For editing and adding new bookmarks.
• Arrange mode - For ordering bookmarks in a tag.
• Delete mode - For permanently removing bookmarks and tags.

Hopefully the new interface will not require any detailed explanation to use.  I am excited to hear opinions of others on the new interface so that I can make improvements where needed.

Mobilfier Update

A few people have mentioned that they were having some trouble signing into various websites. I have made a few changes to the Mobilfier which should help. A few other unreported issues were fixed as well. Please let me know if you are having any trouble.

Where are the Social Bookmarks?

Another question that comes up often in various forms is "Where are all the Social Bookmarking features on mobleo?" i.e. the "Most Popular" list of bookmarks,  etc. This is a fair question and I will do my best to answer it here.

Mobleo currently allows users to share bookmarks with their friends if they wish, and they with you, but I have not released the other "Social Bookmarking" features yet. Mainly this is because I feel that mobleo has not reached critical mass. Meaning there is just not enough good data yet to release all the social features. It seems that spammers comprise a good portion of the early adopters and I am waiting until their contributions get lost in the noise of good data.

So, rather than spend time maintaining a list of popular mobile websites by hand, at this early stage I feel the time is better spent writing code and implementing other requested features. These other social bookmarking features will come in time, hopefully sometime this summer.