Dot Tel on iPhone with updated look

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Try simulator:
http://www.testiphone.com/

Ok: So what makes the Dot Tel domain better or more desirable than other social media network services?

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Ok: So what makes the Dot Tel domain better, or more desirable than other social media network services?:

What other social media network websites offer, as well:

--> One single space, or point, to place all your contact info links, including social media links.

--> quick access through internet.

--> easy to get found in internet.

--> click to call (not all, but some?)

--> Other: Can you think of anything else?... Let me know...

--> privacy features. Hide phone or email address (only some, not all).

--> A Google location map.

--> Display of pictures and contact information.

--> customization of the online contact-, respectively, business card.

--> Free hosting.




What other social media network websites don't offer:

--> A personal and memorable internet domain name as your web presence, for accessing your contact information. Own ownership of a social media or small business domain, whereas a listing at Twitter or Facebook belongs to Twitter or Facebook, and not to you: You are just sub using it, for free.

--> 3000 sub-domains (three thousand).

--> A Google location map for each sub-domain.

--> A own and unique search engine, on each page / domain and sub-domain.

--> Contact info is stored directly within the Domain Name System (DNS)
(: Benefits, not so clear, though..., or not really visible or trackable.)

--> Integration of of your contact page, within your main (sister/mother) website.

--> Better SEO options: Because you are optimizing the search engines for a main web page, and not for only a sub-domain of an other domain owner. How?: With header- and title descripitions, as well as key words, that get indexed, and boost the SEO for your .Tel domain. And with the possility to add as many links, as you like (backlinks, crosslinking).

--> Basically, a Dot Tel domain enables you to have a better online presence for your small business, than if you would only try to promot your page(s) at Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, etc.

--> The possibility to get your email address to match with your Dot Tel domain name.

--> The possibility to use different languages in the header- and title descripitions, as well as in the key words section.

--> The option to place adverts (custom adverts, or / and Google Adsense adverts).

--> The possibility to build a directory (containing many sub-domains / sub-folders).

--> What you can do on one page of your Dot Tel domain, you can do on all of its sub-pages:
SEO, advertizing, renting directory listings, posting link and text info, etc.

--> With a Dot Tel domain, you automatically have a mobile friendly web page, and which you can set up within minutes, to be online.

--> Better interaction between domains with the same name, and which are integrated and liked: mycompany.tel and maycompany.com. Whereas Facebook/mycompany/37404739 with mycompany.com, is not as effective. But any link, is good, especially, if it is about social media networking.

--> The possibility to set up a few so called "Profiles": Each profile can have other contact information: Example: myname.tel (contact info for my UK residence), myname.tel (contact info for Italy residence): I can keep my same .Tel name, and switch between profiles, respectively, online business cards.

--> The possibility to earn some tidy revenue, through advertizing, or affiliate marketing, or sub-letting/sub-renting advert space or directory listings.

--> Because the Dot Tel domain is a mobile friendly web page, you can add the QR-Code (quick response code) of your Dot Tel domain, so visitors of your site can scan it, and get your .Tel domain, without "dialing"/noting your .Tel name. Why would you want to do that on your Facebook-, or Twitter page?: Ok, it may be nice to look at, but in terms of business, probably not as effective.

--> The Dot Tel domain is more innovative, and constantly gets improved and updated with a number of enhancements and applications, within reasonable time.

--> The Dot Tel community members can be crafty, offer and suggest improvements, tools, etc., to make .Tel better. A bit something like within an open source Linux user community.

--> Promoting and branding your own Dot Tel name, is much more effective, and makes more sense, than if you would be promoting your Twitter, Facebook or WikiWorldBook page.

--> The Telnic service, is very new, and focussed on mid and long term success: So, this soon-to-be-popular service is in its early days, and so your investment and faith in .Tel will, most likely, be rewarded.


Conclusion:

Dot Tel, gives you more power!...

For less than $10 per year, you get all these options to benefit from. I must admit: It is a bit of "nitty gritty" work, to customize and to populate your Dot Tel domain, so that it gets a favorable ranking position within Google or Yahoo, bit is is sure worth the time, care and attention, put in it. You'll have a real "business booster"..., and updating it, will be childs play.

Behind the sceen, at the Dot Tel registry (Telnic) at Percy Street in London:

Human nature, greed, false economy, and scandals within the board of directors at Telnic, seems to be spoiling a lot of the fun:
The registry's slow promotion and work pace, is quite back-breaking, and they seem to be often unskilled and clumsy, if trying to do something their selfs, and their forum policy has led to the exclusion of the most brilliant forum members and .Tel contributors, and so that the forum is practically "dead", with an average of only two (2) online forum members. The main forum moderator, seems to be a big squarehead, acting very resolute, banning forum members, all the time. Well, there are not many left, from the "old gard"... But nontheless, it looks like it will pay, to stay faithful to .Tel, and make .Tel work for you and your business.

A big Telchina success, may be more wishful thinking, but lets, wait and see...

The rule of business, is, to firstly be successful, localy (within the UK and Europe), but which the registry has not yet achieved. This probably will still have to be achieved, in order for a success in China to be able to happen. I hardly can imagine, that it can be the other way around.
The local succes in the UK, would be so important for the registries potential success in China/Asia. For it to become possible and real.

And so, we are still waiting for more and faster promotion to be done witin the UK, Europe (and the US). Don't expect too much .Tel success in China, for a while, but stay tuned, however.

The Dot Tel domain has done quite well, in Canada, where it is supported and backened by the Canadian .ca registry Webnames.ca. Who had also produced the famous Love Train promotion video (by one of its doughter-companies). But a big .Tel success in Canada would also depend on an local success in the UK. Which, as I said, hasn't happened yet, due to very little and very slow marketing and promotion.

After one and a half years, I am still not able to see, how the registry "ticks", and what their strategy or concept is, if they ever had, or have one. Time, for the registry to get better organized, and to go for it, because competition from other service providers is getting bigger and bigger. And it is high time, to get used to a faster work pace. Competitors won't wait: They will either be there, a bit behind, or overtake.

But fingers crossed: The Telnic service, is very new, and focussed on mid and long term success: So, this soon-to-be-popular service is in its early days, and so your investment and faith in .Tel will, most likely, be rewarded.

Well, that is the picture!

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Virtual private networks (VPNs) in mobile environments

Mobile VPNs are used in a setting where an endpoint of the VPN is not fixed to a single IP address, but instead roams across various networks such as data networks from cellular carriers or between multiple Wi-Fi access points.[14] Mobile VPNs have been widely used in public safety, where they give law enforcement officers access to mission-critical applications, such as computer-assisted dispatch and criminal databases, as they travel between different subnets of a mobile network.[15] They are also used in field service management and by healthcare organizations,[16] among other industries.

Increasingly, mobile VPNs are being adopted by mobile professionals and white-collar workers who need reliable connections.[16] They allow users to roam seamlessly across networks and in and out of wireless-coverage areas without losing application sessions or dropping the secure VPN session. A conventional VPN cannot survive such events because the network tunnel is disrupted, causing applications to disconnect, time out,[14] or fail, or even cause the computing device itself to crash.[16]

Instead of logically tying the endpoint of the network tunnel to the physical IP address, each tunnel is bound to a permanently associated IP address at the device. The mobile VPN software handles the necessary network authentication and maintains the network sessions in a manner transparent to the application and the user.[14] The Host Identity Protocol (HIP), under study by the Internet Engineering Task Force, is designed to support mobility of hosts by separating the role of IP addresses for host identification from their locator functionality in an IP network. With HIP a mobile host maintains its logical connections established via the host identity identifier while associating with different IP addresses when roaming between access networks.

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network

Google Search:
http://www.google.ch/search?hl=en&q=virtual+private+network&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=



HOW TO: Set Up A VPN Server On Your iPhone/iPad:

There are a lot of great apps in the app store, but some of them are not accessible to everybody because you can only use them in certain countries ( usually the US ) . One of those apps is Pandora (Pandora). But who said, we need to wait until Pandora is ( if ever ) available worldwide? Here’s what you can do, if you want to use Pandora ( and probably other apps like Vevo and Hulu (Hulu) ) outside the US.

NOTE: the method I’m about to show you here, is totally free. Because it is free, you will get what you paid for. Sometimes the apps work , and sometimes the servers are too busy. Just browse around, maybe you find some better free VPNs , or you can always pay for one, and get much much better results.

So, all you need to do is to configure a VPN server on your iPhone. We’re going to use Hotspot Shield , so lets see how to do that:



1. Turn WiFi OFF and find the VPN settings in Settings> General (general reviews)> Network> VPN> Add VPN Configuration.






2. Select the IPSec tab/pane:





3. Add:

* Select the IPSec tab/pane
* Description: HotspotShield
* Server: 68.68.107.101
* Account: oscor2
* Password: oscor2
* Use Certificate: OFF
* Group Name: hss
* Secret: hss

NOTE: if account and password credentials won’t work, get your own here…

4. You are now done. Save the settings and hit the “HOME” button to quit. Make sure to turn Wi-Fi back “ON”.

5. To activate it on your iPhone, the VPN setting needs to be turned on. From “HOME” menu, go to Settings and click the “On” tab for VPN. Your Status will change to “CONNECTED” and the VPN icon will appear on top in the iPhone Tray when complete. If you cannot connect to the VPN immediately, power down your iPhone, turn it back on, and turn the VPN to “ON”.

If you cannot connect to VPN immediately, power down your iPhone, turn it back on, and turn VPN to “ON” in “Settings”.

6. Enjoy


Source:
http://www.chrisdata.com/2010/08/27/how-to-set-up-a-vpn-server-on-your-iphoneipad-and-use-pandora-outside-the-us/

Using QR Codes for Mobile Tagging has some pitfalls, that you should definitely avoid.

QR Code with 20 characters




QR Code with 80 characters




QR Code with 200 characters




QR Code with 400 characters



Pitfalls:

Using QR Codes for Mobile Tagging has some pitfalls, that you should definitely avoid.

Most problems arise because the tester has a good phone (like Nokia's N95) with a high quality camera, but the actual user has an average phone with an average camera.


Whitespace / Quitezone:

Make sure you leave an empty space of around 4 modules on each side.


Amount of data:

You should not encode more than 60 characters in a QR Code. Otherwise detection will be too bad with average phones (see "Capacity").


Color:

You should always use black and white. If contrast is too low code detection will be impossible.


Design:

Some people add logos in the middle or change colors. You should not do that (although it looks very cool) as detectability goes down and people will have difficulties to recognize it as a QR Code.


Size:

The code should never be smaller than 2cm (with ~40 characters encoded). The more characters you encode the larger the code has to be. But you should never encode more than 80 characters.

And here is exactly, how one should NOT do it (because the code is far too small..., and there is not enough empty space of around 4 modules on each side.):
http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/60295168/Twitter_Background.JPG
Average phones with an average cameras, may not be able to scan your code properly..., Justin.
He is not thinking mainstream friendly. Telnic never was thinking very mainstream friendly. Quasi only tech savy users and developers, had a chance to understand .Tel and all its features.

Link and source:
http://www.beetagg.com/BeeTaggSystem/qrcode.aspx


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Dot Tel domain killer marketing: How to do the most effective marketing with Quick Response Codes:

How to do the most effective marketing with Quick Response Codes:

QR codes are only useful for you, if you can scan them.

Which means, that you must have your smart phone with you.

But you can scan a QR code from anywhere, and from any distance, as long as the code is big enough for your smart cell phone to read.

You can scan a QR code from facades of buildings, through shop windows, from any display, such as PC, laptop or an other cell phone display.

A QR code will provide you with contact info, much faster, than if you would dial a phone number, or note a email address, or website link.

Entering and adding new contact info on mobile phone displays, will often happen, by scanning the info, more than dialing or tiping the info. Simply, because it is faster, easyer, and time saving.

However, you can only get someone to scan your QR code, if you can tell them, what sort of information they would get, by scanning your code.

Here, you must get crafty, because just publishing a single QR code, won't bring any results, and will only cost you advert space, that no one will read, nor scan.

In a nut shell: Only provide QR codes, together with a description about the info emedded within the code.

To be continued...

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Show, promote and share (share and scan) your mobile (Dot Tel) website

Example page at Delivr:
Link:
http://dotteldomain.delivr.com/11t6n*

QR-Codes can be scanned from any PC or laptop screen.


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About Navigation Design for Dot Tel domains

A usable navigation design improves the end-users experience and makes sure that users don’t leave the website due to frustration as they are not able to use your website on their mobile device.

Here, we will discuss some important aspects of navigation design for mobile websites:

1.Provide only minimal navigation at the top of the page:
Only basic navigation to help users enhance the experience by reducing clutter for these relatively small screens. Core links upfront also help users to navigate across the application easily without getting much frustrated. In case of footer links, provide very few (2-3) and only if it’s really essential and helps users.

2. Balanced Site Structure:
Unlike desktop-based browsers, mobile web browsers has too many limitations like screen size, hardware’s processing capabilities, memory, etc. Scrolling too much could be painful for the users on such devices. So, the information architecture will need to take care of this balance between that will help end-users to reach the desired content with minimal links.

Inessential links or steps added to get the desired content make users frustrated and they simple stop using the site.

3. Consistent Navigation Mechanism:
The way users navigation on mobile devices is not as easy as pointing devices like mouse on a desktop and they have to rely on joysticks / 4-way navigation or keypad. In such a case, using a consistent navigation method helps a lot.

A “drill-down” navigation mechanism in such interface can help end-users, as it is based on the major headings that take you inside it based on your preferences. For example, someone who wants to see what’s available in movies or music can be directed to the same using main heading link as “entertainment”. Also, we should make sure that links that takes him to main homepage or category homepage are available, e.g. home, entertainment, up, back to top.

Make sure you keep these links minimal required and steps to get the desired content also very minimal, as users may not be interested in going for more retrievals or clicks to get the content he / she is looking for. Also, some form of breadcrumbs can help them to track their trail as well as to go back easily.

4. Device-based Access Keys:
Unlike traditional desktop computing, mobile device is not capable of relatively easy-to-use point device (but is bit easier in smart-phones with some point device like stylus). In such a case, we should use the built-in capabilities of the keys built on the device, which are keyboard shortcuts for a mobile device. Users can press a number on the keyboard to go to a link associated with.

Also, make sure that same access key assigned a link is used across the application for the same link.

5. Description for the link:
Provide information related to a link. For example, if a link is directed to a file which may not be supported by the end-users device, it may be frustrating for him as he isn’t ware of the kind of file type is linked with that particular link. Handsets which don’t support videos etc. may show undesired response and may frustrate the end-user.

6. Do not Use Image Maps-based navigation:
Even though it’s an effective way to navigate by using client or server-side image maps, most of the mobile devices don’t support them. Also, usage of images as navigation should be avoided as end-users with information-seeking behavior tend to disable loading images and your navigation may go completely invisible for the end-user, as browsing websites on mobile devices do involve data usage charges to the end-users and they may be simply not interested in viewing those images as they have to pay for it.

There could be more ways to design a better navigation for mobile web. Please contribute them here if you can think of anything.

(Source: www.usabilityfactors.in )

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