Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Found on the Mobile Web 36

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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 1080 mobile sites. News/US Local by State Palm Beach Post (palmbeach.qwapi.com) The Florida daily paper’s mobile site has extensive local, national and world news, plus weather, business and sports coverage. Also editorials, horoscopes, winning lottery numbers, entertainment news and event listings. Most stories … Continue reading →

Mobiluck – Location Based Social Network

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MobiLuck, which started out as a Bluetooth based chat, dating, messaging and file sharing application now has a mobile web based social network. Like MocoSpace, Peperonity, Wadja, ItsMy, Multiply and several others it’s a pure mobile play rather than a mobile front end to a web based social network. MobiLuck focuses on location and presence. The idea is to share your location with friends (and strangers if your feeling adventuresome) so you can meet up with them in the real … Continue reading →

The Ultimate Mobile Transcoder

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A bunch of new mobile web related services have got me thinking about mobile transcoders and how web services can enhance the mobile experience. The new services are ShifD, Qpyn, Tapp.it and esyURL all of which combine a web to mobile transcoding proxy with some other service; content synchronization in the case of ShifD, URL shortening for the others. Tinyurl.com‘s free URL shortening service has been around since 2002 but has recently gained new popularity thanks to Twitter and the … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists 112

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The weekly Carnival of the Mobilists has unpacked and setup at Taptology under the able direction of Carnival Master of the week, Vero. “With our sights firmly set on the future”, is this week’s theme, hence the rocket photo. You’ll find plenty of forward looking posts of interest to mobile developers, marketers and users alike. The latest Carnival has items debating whether the future will be dominated by web or local mobile applications, a look at dotMobi’s new Device Atlas, … Continue reading →

Oscar Night on Your Phone

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Want to follow tonight’s 80th annual Academy Awards but won’t be near a TV or PC? Here are three sites featuring Oscar content including a couple with live updates during the broadcast. The official Oscars site at m.oscar.com looks great and has lots of media; hundreds of photos including shots of winners on last year’s Red Carpet, photos of this year’s nominees and movie posters from all the Best Picture winners since 1950. And the site has video trailers from … Continue reading →

Why Android Matters

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The first public showing of Android prototypes at last week’s MWC generated a lot of interest although the comments weren’t all positive. Android was faulted for looking like just every other mobile operating system and for lacking the elegant ground breaking user interface of an iPhone. One commenter was disappointed by the lack of any sign of an integrated advertising platform or any other ground breaking APIs. These criticisms are somewhat valid but I think they miss Android’s real significance. … Continue reading →

Carnival at Vision Mobile

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This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is at Vision Mobile where Andreas Constantinou has assembled a great collection of blog posts and articles covering the varied mobile scene. This edition features a good Mobile Web Congress wrap up and some excellent think pieces on topics including the mythical mobile “youth” market, mobile’s role in education, social networks and viral marketing. Post of the week honors go to Tomi Ahonen for his extensive analysis on which countries are ahead in mobile … Continue reading →

PhoneFavs – Mobile One Stop Shop

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PhoneFavs wants to be your mobile web home page. The site combines a mobile portal, a search form for all the major search engines, a social bookmarking service, a web to mobile transcoder and a mobile software store. None of the pieces breaks any new ground but together they provide a useful starting point for exploring the mobile web and creating your own custom web portal. To get started there is a directory of around 300 well chosen mobile web … Continue reading →