Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Found on the Mobile Web #12

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Found on the Mobile Web is a regular feature of Wap Review listing new and updated mobile sites. All sites listed are included in the yeswap.com mobile portal and WapReview.com mobile directory. Entertainment Lottery Results: (infospace.com/info.avant/infoapp/lotto.htm) The winning numbers from all the US State and Canadian Provincial Lotteries. Entertainment/Mobile Video Blueapple.mobi: The latest in a seemingly unending supply of new mobile video sites, this one is a video search engine. There is no indication of what sites are searched or … Continue reading →

Yahoo oneSearch

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The mobile web version of Yahoo’s oneSearch (us.m.yahoo.com/p/search) has launched. In addition to that address which takes you to a dedicated oneSearch page, there is a oneSearch box at the top of Yahoo’s US mobile home page at us.m.yahoo.com Yahoo makes some pretty impressive claims regarding oneSearch. According to Yahoo; “Finally, mobile search that really works! Introducing Yahoo! oneSearch, an amazingly better search experience that redefines search for the phone. It’s designed to give you instant answers – exactly what … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists #65 at Golden Swamp

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Judy Breck has posted this week’s Carnival on her very interesting site, Golden Swamp, whose theme is mobile learning. Be sure to poke around the site and read some of Judy’s pieces to learn how our society is wasting the tremendous education potential of the web including the mobile web. This is a great Carnival too. There are thought provoking pieces about Mobile Net Neutrality, Nokia’s new advertising platform, brightly colored Japanese handsets, the way mobile phones foster economic development … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #11

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Found on the Mobile Web is a regular feature of Wap Review listing new and updated mobile sites. All sites listed are included in the yeswap.com mobile portal and WapReview.com mobile directory. Entertainment/Mobile Video Zannel: (wap.zannel.com) A new mobile media (videos and images) sharing site. Anyone can browse, download and view. Register at www.zannel.com to be able to upload which can be done by MMS or on the PC site. Business/News MEDIAWEEK: (mobile.mediaweek.com) A trade journal covering the TV, radio … Continue reading →

Mobile Meme Trackers

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A meme (rhymes with theme) according to Wikipedia, is a “unit of cultural information” such as “…tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.” As used in the Web 2.0 world it seems to have come to mean “hot topic” or “the next big thing”. A lot of people have a need to know the day’s newest and hottest memes and a number of Web sites attempt to track just that. The first was probably … Continue reading →

Formula One Mobile

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The Formula One auto racing season kicks off next Sunday with the Melbourne Grand Prix. Here’s a look at some sites that let you follow the F1 circus on your mobile phone. F1-Live.com: I’ve just found an i-mode version of the elusive F1-Live mobile site. F1-Live has some of the best F1 coverage on the mobile web with daily news and very detailed live reports. There are lots of photos and it’s all presented in a mobile friendly and reasonably … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists 64

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The latest edition of the mobile sideshow called the Carnival of the Mobilists is up at m-trends.org, hosted by Rudy De Waele. This week the Carnival is honoring Jean Baudrillard, the great media theorist who died recently. I think Baudrillard, whose work explored the nature of reality, would have enjoyed the posts  on the artificial reality of web communities from both Michael Mace and Graham Brown. Also notable are some new mobile data statistics from Farooq Anjum. There are loads … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #10

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Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly feature on Wap Review listing new and updated mobile sites. All sites listed are included in the yeswap.com mobile portal and WapReview.com mobile directory. Entertainment/Music-Nightlife Tuned.mobi: (tuned.mobi) Mobile friendly directory to streaming internet radio stations. Searchable by callsign this site is very comprehensive with hundreds of links to stations in the US, Canada, UK and Australia. These streams are in wma, mp3, real and ogg formats and are playable on Windows Mobile, … Continue reading →