Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

New Mobile Web Development Resources

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A side effect of all the buzz about the mobile web lately is that there are a number of new tools and resources for mobile web developers out on the web. The W3C, the international web standards organization, has a new alpha quality Mobile Web Best Practices Checker. This checker is a tough grader, it seems almost impossible to find a site that passes with zero errors. I checked yeswap.mobi and the checker reported 2 errors. It didn’t like that … Continue reading →

TinyTube – Mobile video from YouTube

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TinyTube.net is an independent mobile site that hosts 3gp versions of a lot of the current content on YouTube. The videos are searchable, and grouped by: Recently Added, Favorites, Highest rated, Most viewed and Most Discussed just like on YouTube. This is not a streaming site, each video is downloadable in low, medium or high quality. All three qualities are 176×144 with varying degrees of compression and of course size – low quality averages 300KB, medium 700KB and High 6MB. … Continue reading →

Disabling Blogline’s Skweezer

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Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of both Bloglines and Skweezer. But together they drive me a little mad. Bloglines is the only RSS reader I use both on PC and mobile. I don’t really consider Bloglines Mobile to be a mobile site, in spite of it’s name. All unread posts in a feed display together on a single page, so any feed with more than few items is too big for most phones to even display. Saving … Continue reading →

Traffic.com Mobile

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Traffic.com has a nice new mobile web version of their real-time traffic alert system at mobi.traffic.com. It currently covers 49 US metros. You pick your city from a drop down and then choose a highway from a paged list or click “Hotspots” to see the 10 most congested roads in your metro. Traffic.com uses a nifty and intuitive thermometer graphic to show the relative congestion on each road. You can drill down into a particular highway and see average and … Continue reading →

Carnival Time

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C. Enrique Ortiz’ is hosting this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists at his Mobility Weblog. There are some excellent posts in this Carnival covering: Sony Ericsson’s acquisition of UIQ, the varied roles carriers play in the evolution the mobile business, bar codes, global phone warranties, software and services reviews, and a whole lot more. Thanks Enrique, for including one of my posts and a well deserved congratulations to Andreas Costantinou whose piece, Operators: service-pipes or bit-pipes was chosen Post of … Continue reading →

Read your Local Paper on your Phone

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Local newspapers are struggling, print circulation is dropping as more people turn to the web for news. Traditional newspapers are looking for ways to survive. Many are turning to the mobile web as an additional publishing platform. This makes sense as a sizable percentage of commuters read the paper on the train or bus. On my own commute, everyone’s face used to be buried in the San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune or San Jose Mercury News. Now about a third … Continue reading →

NASCAR Mobile

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The NASCAR season is almost over but I just found these sites and wanted to share the discovery. NASCAR is the most popular US auto racing series. To European (and many American) motorsports fans it’s a bit weird. Billed as stock car racing, the cars are anything but stock. They look like typical US 2 door mid size cars from a distance but really consist of a handmade tubular chassis, with a full roll cage to protect the drivers, covered … Continue reading →