Just received a mail this morning (this night actually) from Biz Stone (there’s also a post) stating that twitter was officially turning off SMS featuers for Europe for costs reasons. Having worked in the mobile industry for the last 8 years, I perfectly understand this decision.

The good news is that Webwag is providing you a solution to access twitter on your mobile in a fancy manner, whatever your phone is (Java or iPhone).

And don’t forget, there are still a few invites available for Webwag Mobile 2.0 beta.

Have a good day.

—
Florent Pitoun - COO & co-founder

Hi Folks and Friends,

We very excited today to release a brand new version of Webwag Mobile in Beta version. Its fundamentals are based on the tremendous feedback we’ve had on Webwag Mobile V1. We’ve kept and enhanced what you loved and added what you missed.

Here is a (non exhaustive) list of new things you will find:

• New grid layout with yummy reflection effect (on solid color backgrounds)
• MyFriends now allows you to call or SMS your friends, send them invitations and soon much more…
• Easier: Setup Assisant, search in content discovery, grid layout…
• Faster loading times

But what would Webwag Mobile be without content! Here are some of the cool and new (real) widgets you’ll be able to use with Webwag Mobile.

• Enhanced mail with full mail display
• Daily comics to get your comics on the go
• Sudoku game : What about a new game every day?
• Trafic information (France only for now)
• Wikipedia search widget
• Google, MSN and Yahoo! search
• Read all your favorite blogs and news sites, including images, right from Webwag mobile
• More coming…

Handsets support
On top of the existing Nokia, SonyEricsson, LG and Samsung handsets, with this release we initiate support for our beloved BlackBerries, Yeah! Not that they are the speediest handsets on earth, but at least you can get your daily dose of blogs, comics et all on BlackBerry.
Note to touch screen handsets owners: We are still working on the last bits but this should be coming really soon. Meanwhile, you can sill you Webwag Mobile V1 on http://m.webwag.com.

Now the good part is that we are today distributing invitations for 100 of our blog readers.

Just click here to grab your free Webwag Mobile 2.0 beta version.

All feedback is welcome either in the comments, through the included feedback widget or through the feedback form.

—
Florent Pitoun - COO & co-founder

Webwag fournit des solutions innovantes de convergence web et mobile à la fois pour les professionnels et le grand public. Forte de sa position de leader sur la convergence, Webwag recherche un DEVELOPPEUR sur environnements MOBILES JAVA et C++.

DESCRIPTION DE POSTE
Au sein d’une équipe dynamique, vous participerez à la création d’applications Mobiles 2.0 (participation des utilisatateurs et aggrégation de services) innovantes unifiant avec élégance les Web sur PC et le web Mobile. Plus précisément, les missions inclueront :
* Analyse et développement d’application en JAVA pour mobiles (J2ME)
* Gestion de projets autonomes
* Selon compétences, développement en environnement C++ Symbian et Windows Mobile

CONNAISSANCES REQUISES
* Connaissance du travail en environnement mobile (J2ME, Symbian, Windows mobile, xhtml mobile…)
* JAVA pour mobiles (J2ME)
* C++ sur Symbian ou Windows mobile sera un plus

PROFIL RECHERCHE
* Minimum 1 an d’expérience dans un poste similaire
* Vous êtes passionné par la mobilité au quotidien et avez le désir d’en faire profiter le plus grand nombre via des projets innovants largement diffusés
* Capacité à travailler en équipe et autonomie démontrée
* Rigueur et sens de la finition
* Capacité de proposition / exploration et curiosité technique

FORMATION
* Bac + 2 ou plus
* Anglais lu et écrit au minimum

REMUNERATION ET AVANTAGES
* Rémunération selon profil
* Mutuelle haut de gamme

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Just a quick note to tell you that we are present at mobile 2.0 barcelona today.
Stéphane Labrunie, our CEO will  be available for talks!

Here comes (as a support for French Team!) the Webwag mobile and Web widgets for Euo 2008.

It will give you live results, standings and the latest news right on your mobile and webwag.com.

You can install them very easily just by clicking on the button.

We have some important news today to share with you.

The first one is that we wanted to give you a sneak peak at what Webwag Mobile 2.0 resembles.
Here you go:

We are thrilled about the new look and feel, features and enhancements we’ve put in this version and will be giving you more details as we make the beta available in a few weeks.

The second one is that we have a new CEO named Stéphane Labrunie, former SVP Sales and Marketing of I-Play (a leading company in casual web and mobile games). Franck Poisson has been key in the history of Webwag and will remain a close advisor to the company. We wish him good luck for his future ventures.

One of our summer trainees is Chinese and he has today found a great post made about Webwag Mobile.

For the curious the site is here.

Developers, Webwag’s team has just published a brand new tutorial.
For the first time ever, you’ll be able to easily create a widget both on mobile and web!

The goal of this tutorial is to create a translator widget based on Google translation API, and make it available on Webwag Mobile and Webwag.com. Step by step, you will learn how to create the widget structure, develop and deploy the widget. No particular development skills are needed. And if you want to go further or ask questions, don’t forget, the Developers’ corner on Webwag forum is here for you.

Webwag is proud to announce the availability of the Webwag forum, both for users and developers!
Users will be able to share experience, submit ideas and suggestions, and of course, get help when needed.

The “developers’ corner” is fully dedicated to widgets development, both on Webwag mobile and Webwag.com.
This will be the place for developers to ask for help, find resources to get started, co-operate…
And the best of all, no particular development skills are needed, neither on the web side nor on the mobile side, thanks to our tutorials, API documentation and Webwag’s standards-based approach.

All the info is available here (french).