Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

BooRah – New Mobile Restaurant Review Site

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BooRah (boorah.com/restaurants/m/) is a crowd-sourced restaurant review site along the lines of Yelp (review) and Zagat (review) but with a couple of differences. First, instead of relying only it’s own members to build up a critical mass of reviews, BooRah pulls in reviews from other sites like CitySearch, Insider Pages and Yahoo Reviews. The other difference is that BooRah ignores the scores and star ratings in these reviews. Instead it performs a structural and semantic analysis of the review text … Continue reading →

Yahoo Mobile Widgets – First Look

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I finally got a chance to play with the new mobile widgets that Yahoo released Monday. I tried Yahoo! Go 3.0 and the revamped Yahoo mobile portal both of which are completely widget based. Users can add and remove widgets, which include Yahoo stalwarts like Mail, News, Finance, etc. as well as the first few examples of third party content. Eventually any developer will be able to submit to widgets to the Widget Gallery but for now there are just … Continue reading →

CTIA: itsmy – A Mobile Social Network That’s Big in the US

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Wandering around the CTIA floor today I happened upon the itsmy.com booth.  I’d heard about itsmy before, in fact I mentioned them in passing in my Peperonity review back in Janurary. But I realized than I’d never really written about itsmy or added them to the WapReview Mobile Web Directory.  I spent some time at the show talking to Mikko Saarelainen, itsmy’s director of content and communications. He shared some information about itsmy’s features and traffic and I’ve added them … Continue reading →

Quick Thoughts on the iPhone 2.0

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Image Courtesy of Apple. Disclaimer, I’ve never owned an iPhone so I’m not particularly qualified to comment on the new version announced at WWDC yesterday. But like everyone else I’m caught up in the hype and wanted to record my impressions. The original iPhone was a major disruptor especially in the US market were it finally made the mobile web fashionable. I expect version 2 to have an even bigger impact. Although no one outside of Apple seems to have … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists is Here

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Those horns are actually part of the Scoppio del Carro (“Explosion of the Cart”) Easter procession in Florence but here they herald the arrival of the 127th Carnival of the Mobilists. This carnival happens every Monday somewhere on the web and is a celebration of the best writing on mobile technology. I’m honored to be hosting it again here at WapReview. There were a lot of great entries this week, I’ve tried to pick the best of the best for … Continue reading →

Friendster Mobile Workaround

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A week ago I wrote bemoaning the fact the Friendster redirected all mobile browsers, even “full web” ones like Nokia Webkit and Opera to their limited mobile site. The next day the Opera Mini Team made a modification to their servers that allowed OM users to get to the full site. Friendster countered a couple days later with a change that again forced Opera Mini users back to the mobile site. For years there has been an ongoing argument in … Continue reading →

S60 Dreams – Goodbye N95 8GB

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The loaner 8GB N95 went back to WOM World today. I’ll miss it but not too badly as I still have my N95-3 with the upgraded V 20.2.011 firmware that makes it essentially an 8GB with a slightly smaller screen. It was great to be able to play with the 8GB though, thank you WOM. Both N95’s are very nice phones, in my opinion they are the best phones currently available in the US market, particularly for users interested in … Continue reading →