In the great photo above of New York City’s Times Square by 24gotham, the fenced off area in the foreground is where workers are preparing the stage for CNN’s coverage of the New Year’s Eve countdown. It’s time to look at the 2008 predictions I made last New Years day. How did I do? 1. Apple will meet their goal of selling 10 million units in the first year. A 3G model will be announced at MacWorld later this … Continue reading
Quick, what’s the third largest social network (after Facebook and MySpace) in the world based on traffic? According to both Comscore and Alexa, it’s Hi5, which has 80 million members. Although it’s based in San Francisco, less than 7% of Hi5’s traffic comes from the US. Available in 37 languages and dialects, it’s the leading network with Spanish speaking users worldwide and is hugely popular in South America, Africa and Thailand. Hi5 is also one of the fastest growing large social … Continue reading
Image courtesy of WaveMarket US mobile operator, Sprint recently announced a couple of new ways for third party developers to create location aware applications and mobile web services. What Sprint has done is to partner with two companies, WaveMarket and uLocate’s Where.com, who both act as intermediaries between Sprint and content providers. Developers and publishers no longer have to partner with Sprint in order to get access to location data. WaveMarket and uLocate will handle the entire relationship including serving the location data and … Continue reading
It looks like the premier US rock and roll magazine, Rolling Stone launched a mobile site back in June. I just learned of its existence when it was added to the Oh! Mobile Directory a couple of days ago. The site certainly hasn’t gotten a lot of buzz, I couldn’t find any mention of it on Technorati or Google Blog Search. Now that I’ve seen it I can understand why no one seems to have blogged it – the site … Continue reading
Thanks to Mark Guim at The Nokia Blog, I’ve discovered a neat new mobile tool. It’s Ping.fm’ s mobile site and Mark used to announce his engagement! Congratulations Mark. If you don’t know Ping.fm, it’s a service that lets you simultaneously update multiple social networks. So instead of posting a Tweet to Twitter and then going to Facebook and any and all the other social networks that you use and updating your status on each one – you just update … Continue reading
The Century Council, an alcoholic beverage industry group, is sponsoring a free blood alcohol checking site on the mobile web at b4udrink.mobi. The idea is that before you go out to a party or a night on the town you use the site to calculate your projected blood alcohol concentration. If the result is over the legal limit of .08 you are warned. if you plan on getting really sloshed by say, downing 10 shots in an hour you will … Continue reading
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while I’m sure you’ve noticed that I’m a big fan of Opera Mini, it’s my favorite mobile browser. The first thing I do when I get a new phone is install Opera Mini on it. It seems like a lot of other people like Mini too. GetJar reports that it’s the most downloaded Java ME application of all time. According to Opera, Mini has 21 million active users, more than the total … Continue reading
Found on the Mobile Web is an occasional WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 1271 mobile sites. Entertainment/Gossip Gossip Bucket (m.gossipbucket.com) Another new site from MobileInfocenter, publisher of MobilityBeat, Tech News Tube and Mac Hash. Like the other MobileInfoCenter sites (review), Gossip Bucket is a topic-specific feed aggregator. The topic is celebrity gossip and the content is pulled from sites like Perez Hilton, Gawker, E! Online, Defamer, People, … Continue reading