It’s been a while since I blogged here due to some technical problems, apologies for that, but lots to update you on regarding O2 Litmus.
We recently delivered a couple of new software releases, bringing some great new functionality to O2 Litmus. First was the introduction of "Premium Testing" powered by our partner Mob4Hire. You can read the press release from Mobile World Congress here.
Next up, in response to Developer demand, we have introduced support for web based services. So now a developer is not forced to offer a downloadable application when they publish a new project. Now the offer can simply be a URL based service consumed via the mobile phone or PC web browser. We hope this move opens up a rich vein of creativity and starts to move O2 Litmus into catering for PC as well as mobile users.
We held our first "Live Road Mapping" session on Wednesday this week where we had a good dialogue with some of you. A big thank you for Elayne and Graham for running to the shops to buy a VGA cable for the projector to avoid a disaster! You can find the topics covered by visiting reading the Developer Day thread in the Roadmap section of the forum. Please be sure to give us your views on the debate.
You can view photo's from the event here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesparton/3491150398/
Before we know it the Summer conference season will be upon us and after the stir we have created since launch, O2 Litmus is in demand!!
Here is the current 2009 O2 Litmus "fixture list", I hope to see you at one of these events:
Mobile Operator Smart Pipes & Applications, London, 19-20th May, 2009
Mobile Web 2.0 Summit, London, 3rd - 4th June, 2009
Being Digital 2009, London, 9th - 10th June, 2009
Mobile 2.0 Europe, Barcelona, 18th - 19th June, 2009
Mobile Entertainment Market (MeM), London, 23rd - 24th June, 2009
O2 has recently launched its X Price competition for UK entrepreneurs. Be sure to check out the website.
Finally the next of our marketing campaigns to the O2 customer base begins shortly, so make sure you are uploading your applications in anticipation of a larger and fresh audience.
As always, let us know what you are thinking via the forums or Twitter.
James
@jamesparton
Web based applications supported or not?
Can you clarify what this means:
"Next up, in response to Developer demand, we have introduced support for web based services. So now a developer is not forced to offer a downloadable application when they publish a new project. Now the offer can simply be a URL based service consumed via the mobile phone or PC web browser. We hope this move opens up a rich vein of creativity and starts to move O2 Litmus into catering for PC as well as mobile users."
I'm trying to submit a web based application but your support tells me that (direct quote from their mail):
"The statement quoted by you is totally true but I think you misunderstood
it. There is explained the new modality we provide for publishing MOBILE PHONES
APPLICATIONS by just attaching the URL of developer's own web server, so that he doesn't have to upload it on Litmus portal. Moreover, users can download the application directly to the phone or to a PC to be later transferred to the phone. Hope all the exposed above could clarify you about this topic."
So can I have a pure web based application or not? And does your system support my case? It looks like it doesn't.
Jaakko