This week the Carnival has set up at the venerable 3-Lib, launched in 1995 as a site covering the Psion handhelds, 3-Lib is now best known as the home of the Smartphones Show vodcast. For his Carnival, 3-Lib host Steve Litchfield has selected a baker’s dozen of the week’s best posts on mobile topics. The focus is on the mobile web but there are also pieces on mobile payments, malware, QR codes, mobile TV, mobiles in education, Blyk and an … Continue reading
I’ve been playing with Tripit.com lately, it’s a startup with a really clever but simple approach to travel planning. You don’t even have to register, just forward the confirmation e-mails that you get from airlines, car rental agencies, Orbitz, Travelocity, Amtrak, Eurostar and other travel companies and websites to [email protected]. Tripit parses the e-mails, including attached PDFs, and builds an itinerary for you, complete with historical temperatures, maps, and links to information about your destinations from Wikipedia and other sites. … 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 1126 mobile sites. Entertainment/Mobile Video-Audio Medeo (medeo.mobi) Nokia’s free ad supported entertainment video site. Content is mostly from Hollywood and includes trailers and interviews with directors and stars. The site delivers Real Media to Nokia N-Series phones and generic lower quality (H263 ACC) … Continue reading
I’ve written about using free mashup services like xFruits, Feed2Mobile, Mofuse, FeedM8 and Winksite to quickly create a mobile website from your blog’s RSS feed. It’s an incredibly easy way to get a high quality mobile site. Still I was surprised to see that Nokia is using Winksite and Mippin to create mobile versions of Nokia Conversations Conversations at Winksite Conversations at Mippin Conversations, which launched Monday, aims to put a more personal face on the world’s largest manufacturer of … Continue reading
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is at Skydeck.com’s blog. It’s a particularly good one with some great posts on the mobile music, network neutrality, microformats, carrier economics and marketing practices, widgets, user experience and design, advertising, mobile social networking and a whole lot more. Visit the Carnival every week to keep up to date with everything that’s happening in mobile. Link: Carnival of the Mobilists 120
I can’t believe I didn’t see this site before. Mobility.mobi is a nine month old online forum dedicated to discussing the mobile web and especially the .mobi top level domain (TLD). It’s very active with over 7000 and threads and 46,000 posts. Lot’s of discussions of new mobile sites, industry news, SEO, domaineering and buying selling and trading .mobi domains. There are also active sub-forums for mobile web development questions, discussing mobile publishing platforms, hosting and legal issues like domain … Continue reading
I have an update on the Openwave OpenWeb transcoder that US CDMA/EVDO provider Sprint rolled out last month. This time the news is good. To recap, the transcoder is intended to make full PC websites usable with the limited browsers of feature phones – which it does. But it also had a negative effect on the usability and appearance of some mobile web sites and broke many off-portal ringtone, wallpaper, game sites to the point that content downloads stopped working. … Continue reading
There’s been a minor uproar on the web over Russell Beattie’s post yesterday that he’s giving up on his web to mobile transcoder, Mowser. What got people all in a dander is not that another startup is going down but Russ basically saying that the mobile web is dead and that writing xhtml-mp sites is a waste of time. Russ had a very rough year. He worked hard to make Mowser into the best of the current transcoders but ultimately … Continue reading