Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Avoiding Yahoo and Google’s Transcoders (When You Want To)

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Transcoders, web services that convert full websites to a mobile friendly format, can be great.  If you are trying to use a site like The Economist‘s that doesn’t have a mobile edition on a phone with an, ahem, limited browser like a RAZR V3, a transcoder is the only way.  You can bring up Google on your RAZR, search for “The Economist”, click the first result and get something that will load on your phone and is readable if not … Continue reading →

Orkut Forcing Opera Mini to Mobile Version

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It looks like Google’s Orkut has pulled a Friendster and is forcing Opera Mini users to the mobile version of the site. There’s nothing wrong with using browser detection to redirect mobile browsers to a mobile friendly site BUT there needs to be a way to get to the full version if desired. Many of today’s mobile browsers including Opera Mini and Mobile, some versions of Netfront and S60 Webkit are capable of loading almost any site on the web. … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #42

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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 1158 mobile sites. Technology/Mobile/Smartphones/Microsoft Do you have an ATT Tilt Windows Mobile Phone? Then you should know about TiltSite (tiltsite.com), a very active site dedicated to the Tilt. If the Tilt name doesn’t ring a bell, it’s the ATT branded version of HTC’s … Continue reading →

Put Your Mobile Site On Phone Menus

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I met Bill Scott, GetJar.com‘s VP of sales and business development, at CTIA. Bill showed me a rather clever way to promote a mobile site called Visual Bookmarks.  They are tiny (about 4KB for the Java version) Java, Symbian, Windows Mobile or BlackBerry applications that do nothing but launch your site in the phone browser. So what good is a Visual Bookmark?  What it gives you is another channel  for driving mobile traffic to your site. Visual Bookmarks also have … Continue reading →

Open To Anything – San Francisco

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Last night I had the pleasure of attending a Nokia Nseries Open To Anything event in San Francisco hosted by the great folks at WOM World/ Nokia. The intimate gathering at Absinthe Brasserie and Bar brought together a group of Bay Area bloggers and three representatives of London based WOM World, a Nokia sponsored site that is the center of the company’s blogger relations program. It was a free ranging, informal session where the locals shared their enthusiasm for S60 … Continue reading →

PhoneNews.com

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PhoneNews.com is an up and coming mobile news blog. I met founder Chris Price at Saturday’s MobileCampSF and he mentioned that PhoneNews was bigger traffic-wise than MobileCrunch, something Alexa confirms. The site focuses on handsets with timely coverage of the latest device announcements, releases, carrier placements, firmware upgrades and price plans with an emphasis on the US market. PhoneNews also features the PhoneEncyclopedia, a Wiki with a page for each phone where you can find specifications, manuals, firmware files, codes, … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists at Ubiquitous Thoughts

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Mark van ‘t Hooft at Ubiquitous Thoughts has posted Carnival of the Mobilists 128. The theme this week is football (soccer in the US) but it’s also an iPhone 3G Carnival with no less than eight posts on the second generation Jobs-phone. Not an Apple fan? There’s much more to this Carnival including posts on making money with mobile open source, mobile advertising, search, mobiles in education, video calling and Twitter as a universal service. Head on over to Ubiquitous … Continue reading →

MobileCamp SF 2

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I spent the day at MobileCampSF, A BarCamp “unconference” focused on mobile development and monetization. MobileCamp is a a loosely structured gathering open to all mobile enthusiasts. Anyone can present on any mobile related topic in whatever format they desire. MobileCamps have been held in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The first San Francisco Camp was a great event so i was eager to attend today’s sequel. I wasn’t disappointed, MobileCamp was expertly organized by Indira, Ritwik, Andy … Continue reading →