UiTinVlaanderen (dutch for 'Going out in flanders') is the biggest cultural events site in Belgium and it is powered by Drupal.
Drupal users who have followed my blog will probably already know about OSMOBI, the online service to make your Drupal, Joomla! and Wordpress site Mobile. OSMOBI has been the brainchild of Siruna, a Belgian startup focussing on creating solutions to make mobile websites. Examples of mobile websites that are still running on Siruna technology are http://m.stubru.be and http://m.uitinvlaanderen.be. Examples of OSMOBI sites are not existing anymore since the service stopped at the end of June.
The Siruna technology, including OSMOBI focussed on mobilizing your existing Drupal sites and by the end of april 2010 more then 1200 Joomla! and Drupal sites used the free OSMOBI service to create their mobile website.
To get a feel on how OSMOBI worked, have a look at the screencasts that are still online:
http://www.youtube.com/user/SirunaOsmobi
Although the huge adoption of OSMOBI and the increasing need for Mobile websites, the service did not survive due to insufficient funding... This left more then 1000 developers stranded without any mobile sollution. So the natural question I have got was "what's next?".
Submitted by Tom on Wed, 07/14/2010 - 16:49We are currently hard to launch the new release of OSMOBI. One of the upcoming features will be the option to allow for Youtube videos to be shown on your mobile website.... (and more to come, see our latest newsletter for a preview of our new features for April)
Since we are testing now our new YouTube mobilizer, I'll put up one of the screencasts I have recently made. Stay tuned for some life results and demonstrations!
Submitted by Tom on Fri, 04/02/2010 - 22:16
UiTinVlaanderen (dutch for 'Going out in flanders') is the biggest cultural events site in Belgium and it is powered by Drupal.
Amplexor, an IT services company specialized in content management systems, has now created a mobile version of the site optimized for all mobile devices.
The mobile site allows you to quickly navigate through all the events in your neighborhood and the mobile website augments the experience by taking your GPS coordinates into account.
The website provides an easy way to browse through all the events across Flanders, view event and location information.
Together with the recently launched mobile Drupal site of http://www.stubru.be, this is again an example of how Siruna powers Drupal in order to leverage a mobile audience.
The site can be accessed with your mobile device by surfing to http://www.uitinvlaanderen.be
If you want to experiment with creating a mobile Drupal site, surely check out OSMOBI
We are working hard these days to make sure that OSMOBI enables Drupal and Joomla! developers to go mobile with their existing installations, and this by doing a minimum of effort (and cost).
Since our Beta launch on Drupalcon Paris, we have come a long way towards creating this service. Build on top of our open source content transcoder we allow automated transcoding of your site + optimization using a (hopefully :)) user friendly GUI.
And today we are happy to announce a new OSMOBI release. Most notable changes are:
For who want's to take a look at the architecture, we have published our manual.
Submitted by Tom on Wed, 01/13/2010 - 21:25December looks like another month full of Drupalcamps. Siruna will be represented on many of the coming Drupalcamps as sponsors and where possible I will try to give some demonstrations on how to get the most out of Osmobi
Three of the drupalcamps where you will find us soon are
On saturday 5 december you will find me at Drupal Camp New York. The venue quickly reached it's maximum capacity so a big crowd is expected to talk about Drupal!
The week afterwards you there is Drupal camp chicago. If you are attending, hopefully I will meet you during one of my proposed sessions: Making mobile websites with drupal
And yes, the Drupalcamp Ghent will be the first Drupalcamp in Belgium and will happen next to the Siruna offices!
To bad I will not be there , but my colleagues certainly will be present!
This is one of the nicest Drupal Camp badges I have ever seen... Some similarity with the NYC badge cannot be denied ;)
If you are organizing your local Drupal event, drop me a not if you are searching for sponsors or speakers... Building the mobile site of your event can also be an option!!
Submitted by Tom on Tue, 11/17/2009 - 21:58In cooperation with
see Nokia for a list of mobile-code readers.