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July 26, 2007
There's surfing, and then there's surfing
Posted by Peter Harbeson at 08:05 AM |
Categories: Mobile Web Design
The survey mentions the typical sorts of things -- planning, making reservations, sharing photos and other memorabilia. What it doesn't touch on, though, is using the web as recreation. There are all kinds of games, of course, but it's also fun -- at least for many, including me -- to simply find new things on the web.
I didn't find this surprising, but maybe I should have. A survey done for SBC Communications, reported in PDA Today, found that people take their web-enabled devices with them on vacation. Not for work, but for recreation. As PDA Today put it:
Today's vacationers overwhelmingly turn to the Internet and Web-enabled consumer electronics to make virtually every part of their summer getaways easier and more enjoyable.
The survey mentions the typical sorts of things -- planning, making reservations, sharing photos and other memorabilia. What it doesn't touch on, though, is using the web as recreation. There are all kinds of games, of course, but it's also fun -- at least for many, including me -- to simply find new things on the web.
Our browser is really pretty good at most of these things, and a mobile phone is obviously the web-enabled device millions of people are vacationing with. I think the area we have the furthest to go, though, is using the web recreationally. As my daughter might say (okay, might have said several years ago), "we have the bestest browser, but do we have the funnest"?
