Carnival of the Mobilists that is. It’s a weekly collection of the best posts on mobile topics as picked by the current week’s host, in this case Eli Dickinson at Fierce Developer. There are many interesting items in this edition not the least of which is Barry Welford’s piece from StayGoLinks, Walled Gardens – the Walls Keep Tumbling Down which is the Post of the Week. Carnival of the Mobilists at Fierce Developer
Here’s another mobile web site that lets you download videos from YouTube, Google Video, DailyMotion and MetaCafe to your phone. It’s called MyMobileClips and works a little differently than TinyTube which I reviewed a week ago. To use the mobile service you have to register at the MyMobileClips.com PC site. Don’t be put off by the fact that you seem to be registering for a phpBB Forum. There is a forum but that’s not the main purpose of the site. … Continue reading
Thalys International, which provides high speed rail service between Brussels, Amsterdam, Cologne and Paris, now has a mobile site, thalys.mobi. The mobile edition offers schedule and fare lookups and contact numbers. The two main functions, Schedules and Fares are very similar and use a “wizard” interface. On the first screen you choose your start point from a drop down and click Next. A second screen prompts for destination station and for travel date and time which both default to current. … Continue reading
shralp.com is a one year old snowboarding video blog (vlog) site. Shralp releases a new video every Sunday. You can view the videos in your browser on the Shalp! PC site. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the videos. These are not your typical YouTube amateur videos. Production values are high and the images visually exciting. Shralp seems to “get” the potential of mobile video too. Right from the beginning, Shralp! has had a companion mobile web site … Continue reading
Motorola has been embracing Open Source lately, releasing their Java ME 3.0 implementation under the Apache license. Moto is also the leading producer of Linux OS phones although none are available in the US. While it’s not Open Source, Motorola has also released iDenJAL. For the 24 million users on iDEN networks this means that loading Java games and applications just got a whole lot easier. This new tool allows anyone to transfer Java ME programs from their Windows 2000 … Continue reading
FlightStats.com has a new mobile flight tracking service that covers international as well as domestic flights. According to their website FlightStats aggregates information from airlines, airports and government agencies around the world to provide the most complete possible flight status information. FlightStats seems to deliver what they claim, giving me estimated flight arrival information for en route flights in the US and Europe including domestic Russian flights. Data seems scarcer for some parts of the world. For flights within China … Continue reading
Just a quick post to help spread the word that Opera released a new Mini Beta today. I just downloaded it and it seems to load pages even faster than beta 1 which in turn was way faster then the released 2.4059 version. There’s an long list of bug fixes and enhancements in this thread on the Opera Mini Forum. One that particularly caught my eye was, “Experimental rtsp-support added”. RTSP is “real time streaming protocol”. I’m hoping this means … Continue reading
This weeks Carnival is at Golden Swamp, Judy Breck’s blog devoted to encouraging the use of the Internet, including the mobile Internet, in education. Golden Swamp is an intriguing site and I encourge readers to not only visit the Carnival there but to take a look around. The Carnival of the Mobilists is a weekly post featuring the best submitted writing on mobile topics as chosen and showcased by the current host. Each week the Carnival moves to a new … Continue reading