I just discovered a nice mobile site that lets you play computer chess on just about any phone with a mobile browser. It’s called Caramba! and the URL is m.mountmobile.com. When you vist the site it displays a chessboard and prompts you for your move. Moves are entered using a simplfied form of chess notation where you specify the from: file and row followed by the to: file and row. For example “c2c4” means move the piece on file c, row 2 … Continue reading
A new Carnival of the Mobilist’s has been posted at C. Enrique Ortiz’ About Mobility blog. It’s the latest edition of the weekly showcase of the best recent writing on mobile topics. This time around there are links to a wide variety of great posts. Topics include TruTap’s financial troubles, wrapups of the 2008 mobile year and predictions for the new year, mobile statistics, Nokia’s successes in emerging markets, mobile user experience, network technology and mobile web development. A lot … Continue reading
Since the early days of wml-only WAP, Wikipedia’s content has been available in mobile format through a variety of third party sites. Wikipedia’s “Mobile Access” page lists nine that are currently active plus Wikipedia’s own official mobile site at mobile.wikipedia.org. The official site was launched in June 2007 but is new to me. I’ve been using Wapedia.mobi since shortly after it launched in 2004. I really like Wapedia. It’s fast, always up and does an outstanding job of adapting Wikipedia content to … Continue reading
I love the National Geographic. The 120 year old monthly magazine, published by the tax-exempt National Geographic Society, covers world history and culture, geography, archeology and natural science with articles that are thoroughly researched yet highly readable and entertaining. It’s full of interesting, high quality photographs and maps too. The Society also produces films and television programs, hosts a popular website at nationalgeographic.com and operates the National Geographic Channel on cable TV. Earlier this year the Society added a National Geographic Channel … Continue reading
Yesterday Microsoft released a completely updated mobile web version of Windows Live. This is a very significant upgrade and deserves a thorough look. To understand the new mobile version you really need to look at the full-web version of Windows Live. Microsoft is in the middle of a massive roll-out of a new and revamped Live portal which they have dubbed Windows Live Wave 3. Wave 3 is all about social networking. Live users now have a Profile complete with picture, status-like “personal … Continue reading
Updated 12-Dec-2008 Added clarification of how the MoFuse plugin works. In the jargon of mobile web development “thematic consistency” means that if you visit the same URL with different devices you should see more or less the same content. It may be formatted differently, images may be smaller or missing and long pages split up when viewed with a mobile browser, but the essential theme of the page should be the same on all devices. For example, if you write … Continue reading
Yahoo owned social bookmarking site delicious.com launched a mobile web version yesterday. It’s at m.delicious.com. The mobile site is a pretty basic read-only affair, it doesn’t even seem possible to add a bookmark using the mobile version. What mobile Delicious does provide is a low bandwidth view of your bookmarks, inbox, tags, subscriptions, network and the top 10 URLs as defined by “Delicious Popular”. You can browse your bookmarks by tag and search for a tag. The site works well … Continue reading
This morning Google released an update to the native Symbian version of Google Maps for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 3rd edition phones. The big change is that the new version finally includes street view, a feature that has been available on the iPhone, Android and BlackBerries for what seems like forever. Also new to S60 in this release are walking directions, user reviews of locations and business and the ability to recieve alerts from transit agencies. Details at the … Continue reading