The annual blowfest, better known as CTIA, has once again alit upon the city of glowing neon, not un-adjacent to the world famous Chicken Ranch, Las Vegas, NV. Among the slew of hyperbole showcasing the latest and greatest "must have " new-fangled gadgets and technical wizardry, we find this little nugget buried deep within the bowels of that esteemed pifflesheet, the Denver Post.
As NuDoms will know, this was an opportunity to once again highlight how numeric domains can enable millions of people to access some of the most popular Web sites on the planet, quickly and easily.
I've presented the article here in its entirety and included my comments submitted to the Denver Post.
MySpace explores mobile music
LAS VEGAS — MySpace, the most-popular social networking website, is exploring ways to let users access music featured on its pages through Internet browsers on their mobile phones.
"People want to take music on the go with them," said Brandon Lucas, MySpace's senior director for mobile business development, in an interview Monday at the CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas. "It's something very interesting to us." Within a few years, MySpace will get as much as 50 percent of its user traffic through mobile devices, Lucas said.
The News Corp. social networking site started offering mobile versions to Verizon Wireless and Sprint subscribers last month.
To which I replied:
Dear Mr./Ms. Denver Post Reporter:
You might want to inform Mr. Lucas
there's something that he might find "very
interesting".
The fact is, anyone on the planet with a cell phone
and a wireless connection can already access the MySpace mobile Web
site.
Here's how: (recognizing that numbers represent letters on billions
of standard, non-qwerty cell phone dial pads).
1. Open your mobile
browser
2. Enter the numeric domain
equivalent of the word MySpace - that's 6977223
3. Add the
.com
4. Press 'send', 'call', 'go' etc.
5. You are taken directly
to the MySpace mobile Web site
It doesn't matter if you are in Bangalore,
Buffalo or Beijing
It doesn't matter what hand set you use
It
doesn't matter what language you speak
It doesn't matter which carrier
you subscribe to (although Verizon and Sprint would have their subscribers
believe that they are 'special' in the eyes of the MySpace
intelligentsia.
In fact, why not call up your FaceBook contact and tell
them the same thing. 32232665.com goes to
the Facebook mobile Web site. And while you're on a roll and into your Rolodex,
do the same thing for Twitter at 8948837.com, ESPN at 3776.com, Mahalo - at 624256.com and.... well
you get the picture.
Cheers,
Scott Smith
ss@numericdomains.com
http://numericdomains.com
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