Mobile Ministry Magazine

One of my bros asked me why I'm not running MMM on the Mobile Web Server, and I told him it was because its still beta, and that's something of a large decision (I currently run the an MWS site as my personal website, and dig keeping content separate). Nevertheless, it did remind me that I did not post about the recent update of the MWS to version 1.5. Here are some of the new features to be found in this version:

• A new Access Rights web page highlights some of the site administration updates. This new page makes it easier to see and control access to MWS pages.
• RSS has been addressed with a new configurable RSS feed. Instead of just taking all the content, RSS feeds can now be separated into several feeds for the different aspects of the MWS.
• Finally, developers now have the ability to add their own Python web applications. By using the MWS SDK and framework, developers can create external applications which, when added to the MWS, will show up in navigation similar to the built-in applications.

This new version of the Mobile Web Server has also been tweaked to take advantage of the Destinations feature in Symbian devices using the latest 3.2 (Feature Pack 2) operating system.

Nokia's Mobile Web Server is compatible with Symbian S60 devices and can be downloaded for free from the Mobile Web Server website. As a note of advice, it would be smart to have an unlimited data plan with this. Its not bandwidth heavy, but you would want to keep the site up :)

For those who are still wondering about MMM and the Mobile Web Server, you can read the MMM Mobile Web Server Experiment Report (PDF, April 2008) to see some of our findings. Maybe we'll revisit it with a newer device and near-final software to demonstrate and push the envelope a good bit more ;)

Labels: mobile, Mobile Web Server, mobility, software