Tied in with the start of voting on the N2Y4 mobile challenge - Version 0.1.3 alpha of Community Mobile Channels has been released and is available at Sourceforge. It is now getting close to a beta release and we encourage as much feedback as we can get. This version has a few important changes as well as a number of fixes and improvements.

The major new features are detailed below: -

Since the first alpha release last week there has been activity on the project. The latest alpha release (version 0.1.2) provides a few bug fixes, format changes and the following additional functionality:

• Simplified method of adding internal and external links. External links are also sent to mowser transcoder to allow for mobile reading of non-mobile optimised sites.

I am very pleased to announce that the Community Mobile Channels Version 0.1 Alpha source code and demo is now available (on this site!). To visit the demo go to http://mainstreamingict.org/cmc

There are a few example M-sites (micro websites) loaded up onto the demo and you are free to register if you would like to upload content and publish a M-site of your own - a (very quick) guide to registering and publishing is given below:-

Following on from my previous post about a very relevant and topical project I wanted to see - I have been pulling together a number of scripts and other resources I have which should be a good start. With some more coding I am currently doing this will act as the framework for a open source project I have just started on sourceforge called 'Community Mobile Channels' .

Community Mobile Channels is a project which aims to utilise the power of new mobile technology to allow communities to create and publish quality mobile phone based web content without the need for a computer. 

This utilises the mobile web and will be based upon PHP and MYSQL. The 3 things which make this project different to a standard CMS are :-