Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

TapTap, Mobilised and :bMarks – Mobile Digg Contenders?

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Social Bookmarking with popularity rating – what Digg does – but for mobile web sites is what TapTap, Mobilised and :bMarks are about. There’s a tremendous of interest in the mobile web right now with new mobile sites appearing daily. But discovery is a problem both for mobile users and publishers. There’s a need for a place were users can recommend sites and let the crowd vote to determine which ones are most worthy. TapTap (m.taptap.net/) is from AdMob. I … Continue reading →

Is AOL’s New All In One Mobile Search an Improvement?

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AOL has released a new version of AOL Mobile Search (wap.aol.com/portal/searchindex.do). All the major search engines have revamped their mobile search pages in the last 11 months. They all basically did the same thing too. Instead of separate searches for news, local, images, the web, etc., the new fashion in mobile search design is a single search box which delivers results from several of these categories in a single results page. Microsoft did it first with a revamped Live Search … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists 86

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This week the long running blog carnival returns to MobHappy, the site were it launched almost two years ago. Carlo Longino has assembled the usual collection of great posts on mobile topics. If you have an interest in mobile phone technology, the mobile business or how the mobile has effected society, you should be reading the Carnival of the Mobilists every week. Link: Carnival of the Mobilists 86

HooQs – Mobile Video Channels

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HooQs (m.hooqs.com) is another new mobile video and music site. This is a crowded field and HooQs is trying to distinguish itself with the concept of channels. A channel is a collection of audio and video content with a common theme like a band, new movie release, “how to do it instructions”, UFOs or a major news story. There are many predefined channels and Hooqs can create a custom channel for you based on your interests. Or you can build … Continue reading →

NewsGator Mobile – So Close, Yet So Far

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I read RSS feeds on my phone and on the web – a lot. I’ve never been 100% happy with any of the mobile web news readers. I’ve been been using Bloglines forever even though it has three “features” that I find really annoying. The worst is that Bloglines Mobile’s style sheet changes all links to black, the same as plain text. Opera Mini doesn’t underline links so I miss following a lot of interesting links because I never see … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #22

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In the last Found on the Mobile Web I listed Surf Europe‘s mobile site. I was impressed with the visual design of that site which was created by Mowave. In the post I mentioned that I needed to do some research to find more Mowave sites. Kjeld Kahn at Mowave saved me some time by emailing a link to company’s own portal at opnr.com which links to all their sites. Besides Surf Europe I’ve also covered Mowave’s Daily Mirror in … Continue reading →

Carnival 85

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This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists host is Paul Ruppert at Mobile Point View. Paul’s a first time Carnival host but you would never know it. He set up his Carnival right where we’d all like to be in August – on the beach. A carnival on the beach brings back some fun memories for me and I bet for you too. So head on down to the water’s edge for an entertaining ride through the week’s best writing on … Continue reading →

Do Transcoders and the iPhone Make the Mobile Web Obsolete?

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I like Skweezer.net‘s mobile transcoder. It’s one of the best ways to make desktop websites into something usable on a phone and it works with just about every html-capable phone on the planet. Last week Skweezer issued a press release announcing a tweak they made to the service. The tweak is that Skweezer rolled back a change they made a month and a half ago. Instead of identifying itself through it’s User Agent header as Internet Explorer, Skweezer had tried … Continue reading →