I picked up a couple of .mobi domains for my sites. The mobile edition of this blog is at wapreview.mobi and the yeswap.com portal is now available at yeswap.mobi. Yeswap.com and mp.wapreview.com aren’t going away, however. And, as soon as I mobilize the rest of the Wap Review site you’ll be able to go to wapreview.com with a phone browser and see a mobile site there too. I have mixed feelings about the whole .mobi concept. There’s a lot wrong … Continue reading
Update: wap.sensis.com.au is giving me 403 (Forbidden) errors, however mobile.sensis.com.au seems to working with the same content. I’ve changed the urls in this article to the mobile… variant. Sensis is one of the many brands belonging to Australian fixed and mobile telecommunications and Internet giant Telstra (Wikipedia). The Sensis brand is used for Yellow and White pages directories both online and mobile and for an online web search engine, www.sensis.com.au – “The search engine for Australians”. Sensis search’s default behavior … Continue reading
Ask.com and Telestra, Australia’s largest mobile operator, both launched new mobile search portals this week. Ask’s offering features a web search that searches the full web using Ask’s own search engine. The results are transcoded for mobile usability by a white label version of Skweezer (review). It works well most of time, but for some reason, Ask’s transcoded pages don’t have the message and link ” Page optimized for mobile device, click here to view without Skweezer. ” that appears … Continue reading
Mob5 isn’t really a pure Mobile Social Software (MoSoSo) site although it bears some similarities to one. I’d call it a forms driven mobile site builder and free mobile hosting service. It lets you build a site to share your writing and photos. There’s a comment form that you can add as a “wall” or shout-box were anyone can leave (and read) comments. Mob5 is good for building a site where your friends can look at your photos or writing … Continue reading
The latest Carnival of the Mobilists is up at Helen Keagan’s Musings of a Mobile Marketer site. Helen picked Alfiie’s fantastic rant from SMS Text News on what’s wrong with mobile operators as post of the week – I agree, its very funny and spot on. Also be sure to visit another entry, the podcast from Wireless World Japan on contactless chip-based payment mobile payment systems. It looks like the mobile phone is about to replace not only the PDA … Continue reading
I’m already tried of the phrase “Web 2.0”. It’s time for a new buzzword. Still, the big paradigm shift of Web 2.0 and one that’s here to stay is the idea that users and especially communities of users are what gives the web value. That can mean sharing of user generated content such as photos (Flickr), writing (Yelp, blogs), or the collective wisdom of what’s click-worthy (del.icio.us, Digg, YouTube). All these sites also accept comments which is a starting point … Continue reading
Reuters has one of the best mobile news sites at mobile.reuters.com. Now there is Reuters Labs, labs.reuters.com with two beta mobile applications. The first is a Flash Lite enabled version of Mobile News that runs on unspecified Symbian devices with the Flash Lite player (required Flash version also not mentioned). I haven’t tried it as I don’t have a compatible phone. The other beta at Reuters Labs, Mobile Videos, is pretty cool. It has a dozen news videos which are … Continue reading