Mobile Awesomeness Blog

The jQuery team recently announced their official mobile framework (for phones and tablets), called jQuery Mobile. We think they will be a BIG player out of the gate. The browser support and initial UI controls look fantastic.

Next time you are trying to sell your boss, team or client on a new mobile website, these 11 Mind-Blowing Mobile Infographics should come in really handy.

The developers at Opera, who have always been forward-thinking about mobile in their own right, published a fantastic Mobile Web Optimization Guide last week that's worth bookmarking! It's got some really great tips and resource links.

YouTube Mobile recently launched, with full HTML5 video support. It's a really great looking mobile site!

Sencha (formerly Ext JS) recently announced a new mobile framework for WebKit browsers called Sencha Touch. This seems to be by far the closest competitor to JQtouch for iOS and Android web development, with some really great functionality right out of the box. Here's a brief demo outlining the framework:

The folks at Zurb recently recorded a talk by Luke Wroblewski at their offices. If you don't know about LukeW, he's one of the best UX designers around and has been talking a lot about mobile as of late. In the podcast he talks about the importance of designing for mobile devices. It's a really fascinating talk, so check it out!

Urban Airship is a service that provides developers with the ability to enable push notifications and in-app purchases in their apps without having to write a bunch of server-side code to communicate with Apple. The big news for web developers using PhoneGap is that Urban Airship push notifications are now supported (not in-app purchases yet). Here is a blog post with the details ...

Nielsen just published the results of a survey taken of 4,200 people who had downloaded a mobile application in the last 30 days. It examines the platforms, categories and individual apps that are most popular for mobile use. Fascinating stuff ... read the report here.

For mobile websites that need to stream content or have particularly high and/or geographically diverse traffic, Mobile CDN is a good thing to look into.

SproutCore (the javascript library running Apple applications like Mobile Me and iWork.com) now has a "touch" version meant for use on the iPad and iPhone. That's rad. Read all about it here.