A comment I have heard often is that the content from a Mobile Web Server should be available also via various feeds, to be imported into other services. For Blog entries and Gallery items we have already added these via RSS (see Forum Nokia Wiki for more information). These work for me in Jaiku for example, have you tried the feeds in other services?

One interesting addition would be to add Presence information such as calendar status and location as an embeddable feed. This way you could share your whereabouts automatically from the phone, without having to update or sync anything.

What do you think, is that worth pursuing? Do you have any other comments (technical or not) about the current feeds we have? Also which of the social services would you like to see getting "MWS enabled"?

Thanks for your comments in advance!

-Jukka

The current idea is roughly this:
- there will be a single 'Add access rights' page under Settings that includes all of the applications and their features
- within that page you can choose Users or Groups, and add rights to some or all applications (or clear all rights to start from fresh)
- there will be another page where you can check the current access rights for any given User or Group

The challenge with these new settings is that the amount of data requests must be kept to a minimum for speed and efficiency reasons, hence the two different pages for adding and checking the rights.

How does that sound? Any further ideas? Thanks in advance!

-Jukka

This version can be installed directly on top of MWS, after which you can develop mobile sites using PHP and MySQL. And be able to install pretty much any PHP/MySQL based CMS, Wiki or other package alongside the default MWS site. But there are still rough edges, so it's better if you are not afraid of the bleeding-edge:)

As usual, you can download PAMP from SourceForge and installation instructions are provided in our wiki.

In case of any problems or questions, please use the Forum Nokia discussion board.

Have fun!

Johan

Head on to the official news item to check out what's new and fixed. Then follow up here, what did you like? Or didn't?

PS. At this point I want to thank all the hard-working people putting on long hours for this stuff. Thank you, and have a relaxing holiday!

-Jukka

-Jukka

By default Presence page shows just the coordinates if the phone location is found. It's fair to say that's not very intuitive but here we are leaving the innovation possibilities for developers and hobbyists. It's very easy to modify the default Presence page to have a link to any map or other service. Hint: the file is Web server\htdocs\Web_Applications\Presence\Viewer\index.psp. You can take a look at our demo device's Presence page, it has some examples on what to do with the location.

If you don't feel like experimenting just start to use our Facebook application. It will translate your location into a map name and country, if you allow that. This way your friends can check out your live location roughly.

The location feature works in S60 devices that have the AGPS feature in software. This includes all the models that have internal GPS module. For some products such as N95 and E90 make sure you have the latest software for the device. Our current implementation only uses network-based location which can be hundreds of meters or even kilometers off depending on the cellular network structure. In our next release we will add an option to use also the GPS information if desired.

Bonus link: The Mobile Web Server brochure describes this and other possible future ideas. If you have new ideas, you know what to do :)

-Jukka

In addition to status data your friends can send you a free text message directly from the profile. Messages appear on the phone just as a normal text message. What am I seeing right now? Your friends can ask a live photo from your device with a single click on the application.

The application is now available for everybody, and requires the latest Mobile Web Server 1.3 beta to run. Let us know what you think!

Live Status from my Nokia Phone

-Jukka

-Jukka

Our first APIs have the following features:
- get Presence information from the device such as calendar availability, time and current profile
- send "free text messages" into the phone inbox

The APIs are documented in our wiki. Go start playing, and of course don't forget to submit your results in MWS Challenge there is still time!

-Jukka

As the last time, it can be downloaded from SourceForge and installation instructions are provided in our wiki.

This version can fully replace the web-server of MWS 1.3, so that you can use all Python based web applications of MWS, and at the same time play with PHP and MySQL. Note though, that as PAMP has fewer capabilities than MWS, the functionality of some web-applications of MWS will be restricted. But please read those installation instructions, as you can't just simply install the PAMP sis on top of MWS.

So, if you want to move closer to the bleading-edge, install PAMP, but be prepared that there are still rough edges. For technical discussions and support, please use the Forum Nokia discussion board.

Have lots of Fun!

Johan

Here is a message from Karri Kalpio, which I promised to put up in the blog:

We'll be presenting a very cool Java based content management system based on eSWT powered user interface. The link between that and Mobile Web Server is that because our demo concentrates on the new widget set soon available in S60 based smartphones we utilize MWS to handle all the actual content delivery. I think this is conceptually pretty cool: whichever application could behave in a similar fashion and simply make the content generated in phone to be distributed by MWS. Especially now that the new sensor framework is becoming available the amount of data that may be generated and processed in the device I cannot even start to imagine all the new possibilities this might open!

If you - or somebody else playing with MWS - happens to be participating JavaOne, please come to see us in Nokia booth #818!

--karri

I haven't seen the demo yet myself, but it was nice to hear Karri & eSWT folks could use MWS to enable their demo. Drop your comments here!

-Jukka

In Finland it's time to go and celebrate Vappu (Labor day), so please excuse me for now. Go do the update, and share any comments!

Download Mobile Web Server software for your phone

-Jukka

Mobile Web Server Extensions: My Mobile Site widgets updated

I would like to highlight the Free/Busy option under Calendar widget. It's a real-time group calendar: once you set it up you can instantly see available time slots for your family, friends or colleagues. Nice stuff?

Get the widgets here.

-Jukka

Web 2.0 Expo in San Fransisco is now underway. We don't have a physical presence, but our friend Oren is there in S60 area. He will be happy to show you a demo and talk more about MWS and Python. If you have a comment or question, you can also post here of course.

Some hot news: we are about to release a new beta version, and there will be some REST-ful APIs to use together with "web 2.0" services. More about that once it's out of the oven.

Don't forget our developer competition, there is still time to Rise to the Challenge!

-Jukka