Mainstreaming ICT

Okay, Spurred on by the “success” of Community Mobile Channels making it to round 2 of Knight News Challenge I have made a few useful changes and released a new version. This covers the following main changes.
* Overall CSS improvements
* Design improvements on home pages - both public and logged in
* Latest sites stream
* Channels [...]

I have released version 0.1.5 alpha of Community Mobile Channels (CMC) - the 3 major changes on this release as detailed below: -

MMS/email picture upload (requires gmail account and php imap module (usually installed))
Desktop browser detection and no link to mobilised links from desktop (browser.ini used)
Several Fixes around private channels and security

The new release is [...]

Since the first alpha release last week there has been activity on the project. The latest alpha release (version 0.1.2) provides a few bug fixes, format changes and the following additional functionality:

Simplified method of adding internal and external links. External links are also sent to mowser transcoder to allow for mobile reading of non-mobile optimised [...]

I am very pleased to announce that the Community Mobile Channels Version 0.1 Alpha source code and demo is now available (on this site!). To visit the demo go to http://www.mainstreamingict.org/cmc
There are a few example M-sites (micro websites) loaded up onto the demo and you are free to register if you would like to [...]

Community Mobile Channels is an open source initiative to make a community and mobile phone based publishing system for mobile content.
This post covers a couple of the key design issues involved, firstly user registration and secondly the key site options.
User Registration
A key feature of community mobile channels is that it is mobile based whereever possible. [...]