Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

ThrillNetwork.com

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ThrillNetwork.com is a roller coaster and amusement park fan site. The mobile edition of ThrillNetwork (mobile.thrillnetwork.com) is aimed at PDAs and Smartphones and works best on devices with screens at least 220px wide and able to handle pages up to 100 KB in size including images. The site also works very in Opera Mini. If you want to visit ThrillNetwork with a typical phone’s built in browser you should probably use a transcoder like Skweezer or Google‘s. ThrillNetwork Mobile features … Continue reading →

Newsweek’s Two Mobile Sites

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Newsweek is Time magazine’s major competitor among US weekly news magazines. Before the Internet and CNN these two publications held great power in influencing mainstream politics and thought in this country. Nowadays both are trying to reinvent themselves on the web – including the mobile web. I covered Time‘s new mobile site recently so here’s a look at Newsweeks‘ mobile offering. Newsweek, like Time, has turned to Crisp Wireless to create their mobile site. Crisp seems to specialize in repackaging … Continue reading →

56th Carnival Of The Mobilists Live From Bangalore

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Justin Oberman is in India presenting at the W3C Mobile Web Initiative’s Mobile Web In Developing Countries Workshop but that hasn’t stopped him from hosting the Carnival at his Mopocket site. Take a look at the latest carnival which features 21 of the best posts on mobile topics from the past week. Congratulations to Jason Devitt whose Carnival entry was chosen Post of the Week.

New Flickr Mobile

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Flickr recently rolled out an updated version of their mobile site at m.flickr.com. When I first reviewed Flickr Mobile I found it limited but useful. This update removes most of the limitations I mentioned. Photos are now searchable by tag or description and new links give you more options for viewing your contact’s photos. One of the best features of Flickr Mobile, the ability to upload photos directly from your browser, has been retained. Browser uploading only works from certain … Continue reading →

Mobile Minneapolis StarTribune

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A user on HowardForums’s tipped me about the Minneapolis StarTribune’s mobile site. The site’s really designed for PDA’s but usability scales down to typical phones fairly well. There are links to about 35 breaking news stories on the front page. A top level menu links to other sections including a section for each of the area’s pro sports teams. The section pages each link to about 10 stories so there is a lot of content on the mobile StarTribune. The … Continue reading →

YouTube Shuts Down TinyTube

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Update: 02-Dec-2006: TinyTube is back online with from Google Video, mostly movie trailers. I’m saddened but can hardly say I’m surprised. If you visit TinyTube, the site that offered mobile formatted content from YouTube, you will be greeted by an empty page with the message, ” More videos tomorrow, please visit the forum.” On the forum is this post dated 11/30/2006: “We want to maintain a good working relationship with YouTube, so when a Senior Manager at YouTube contacted us … Continue reading →

CNN Doesn’t “Get” Mobile

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I really don’t understand CNN’s mobile web strategy. Their mobile site (mobile.cnn.com) can only be reached from phones on CNN’s network partners! The news network seems to be saying that they’d rather make a quick buck today from carrier deals than build their brand on mobile. This is all the more surprising because the CNN mobile site carries advertising which means lost ad revenue too. Wikipedia calls CNN the second most watched (after the BBC) TV news source in the … Continue reading →

Opera Mini 3.0 and Verizon-YouTube

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Two big mobile web and data related announcements today. Opera has released Mini 3.0 and Verizon announced a deal that will put some YouTube videos on the carrier’s V-Cast media player for EVDO subscribers. Opera Mini is at 8 million users and Release 3.0 represents a significant upgrade. I’ve covered the 3.0 betas in some detail, the released version doesn’t add any features beyond the photo sharing, RSS feed reader and secure connections which were in the beta. It looks … Continue reading →