Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

New Carnival of the Mobilists at MobHappy

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The latest edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists has been posted at MobHappy. Russell Buckely and Carlo Longino launched the first Carnival at MobHappy in October of 2005 to showcase the best current writing on mobile topics from around the blogosphere. The latest edition is 107th, making the Carnival of the Mobilists one of the longest running of blog carnivals. As always, this week’s edition has some great posts. Head on over to MobHappy and read them all. Whatever … Continue reading →

The Biggest Mobile Social Network You Never Heard Of.

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While many think that web based social networking started with Friendster or Facebook, in fact there are several mobile based social networks that are much older including Peperonity, started in 2000 and TagTag and ItsMy which launched a year later. These sites initially just offered users a way to create a simple mobile web homepage using a menu driven site builder. Over time all three added features like chatrooms, messaging, content sharing, friend lists and guestbooks to became full fledged … Continue reading →

Discovery Mobile

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International cable and satellite television network Discovery has a mini mobile web portal at discoverymobile.com with links to separate sites for the Discovery Channel and some of the other channels it owns, The Learning Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Health and Planet Green. The individual sites have TV schedules and other features for each channel. I’ve added the following Discovery sites to the WapReview directory and Yeswap portal in the Entertainment/TV folder. Discovery Channel (discoverychannel.mlogic.mobi) The featured shows are Myth Busters, … Continue reading →

Mobile Mail – Why Can’t I Follow Links and Apply Labels?

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Design requires compromise. That’s especially true when designing for the mobile web. It’s easy to get carried away with implementing features that are too complex to be practical in the mobile context. On the other hand you don’t want to omit essential functionality. Getting the the right balance is a real art and even the big boys don’t always get it right. Case in point Yahoo and Google‘s mobile email sites and applications. Yahoo Mail and gMail are the leading … Continue reading →

Carnival 106 at Xellular Identity

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Mobile Marketing Guru Xen Mendelsohn has posted a new Carnival of the Mobilists at her Xellular Identity blog. It’s full of great articles about mobile society, technology and business. Reading the Carnival every week is the best way to stay on top of the latest trends in all areas of the mobile universe. Link: Carnival #106 is Here!  

Found on the Mobile Web #32

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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 1026 mobile sites. Search/Directions Ask – Directions (m.ask.com/ddhome.jsp?form=dd) Ask.com’s mobile driving directions site now features a clever voice recognition system that works with any web enabled phone. To use it you start at Ask’s mobile search page, m.ask.com and instead of typing your … Continue reading →

Gear Diary

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The Gadgeteer (mobile) was one of the first (since 1997) and is still my favorite hardware review site. Reviewers Julie Strietelmeier and Judie Hughes delivered entertaining, incredibly honest and thus very useful reviews of all sorts of small electronic devices especially PDAs, and later smartphones. I like to buy cool but outdated handheld tech on eBay and The Gadgeteer’s archives are my primary resource when researching purchases. Judie left The Gadgeteer a year ago to start her own site, Gear … Continue reading →

Y! Mobile Widgets

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The big news from CES today is that Yahoo has released a mobile widget API and is integrating widget support into Yahoo Go and the Yahoo Mobile Web Portal. You can visit mobile.yahoo.com/gallery for more information. The first widgets are from eBay, MySpace and MTV. Although the platform was “launched” at CES today you can’t actually use any Yahoo widgets on your phone, everything seems to be “coming soon”. Widget support is a part of the new Yahoo Go 3.0 … Continue reading →