Yelp.com is a site featuring user generated reviews of businesses, services and attractions mainly in major US cities. Restaurants seem to be the main focus but users are free to review anything. There are plenty of reviews of clubs, hair salons, auto repair places and even cell phone stores. I’d never heard of Yelp until I read Oliver Starr’s writeup of it’s new mobile site. Apparently I don’t get out enough. It seems that Yelp is a genuine hit especially … Continue reading
Justin over at MOpocket mentioned that online travel giant Orbiz has launched a mobile site and added ” I hope WAP Review guy does a review of it”. I’m happy to oblige, so here goes. According to Alexa, Orbitz.com is the number two (in web traffic) online travel agency behind Expedia. In terms of mobile web adoption Orbitz also trails Expedia whose UK operation has had a wml-only Web site for several years. The new Orbitz site is much nicer … Continue reading
The latest Carnival has been posted at Abiro Mobile News. I’d never heard of Abiro before the Carnival appeared there. That’s one of the good things about the Carnival of the Mobilists. Not only does the Carnival feature the weeks best writing on the mobile scene but it also showcases great sites I’d never discover on my own. Like Abiro the blog of Anders Borg, an industry veteran and consultant most recently involved with mobile browser vendor Obigo. It’s an … Continue reading
Eugenia, the developer responsible for the awesome OSNews mobile site has created a mobile front end to Digg! The site presents the current top 40 on Digg in a compact format that displays nicely on any WAP2 phone. The only thing I’m not fond of about this Digg mobile is that when you click through from the mobile page you are on the non-Mobile Digg item page which causes my phones built-in Openwave 7 browser to throw an out of … Continue reading
My fellow mobilist and host of this weeks Carnival of the Mobilists, Daniel Taylor at Mobile Enterprise Weblog has posted an interesting piece on mobile web usability or lack there of. Daniel’s article, Who Designs This Stuff? describes the difficulties and frustrations that he experienced trying to accomplish something on the mobile web that should have been easy – getting the arrival time of a airline flight. The problems Daniel experienced are typical of the frustration that many users experience … Continue reading
Daniel Taylor has posted the latest Carnival of the Mobilists at his Mobile Enterprise Weblog. There are a number of very good posts this week. I particularly liked Steve Litchfield of All About Symbian‘s piece, Why the penny-pinching over RAM?. Congratulations to David Beers of Software Everywhere whose insightful article, Palm annual report: we’re making the next Palm OS ourselves was chosen the Post of the Week. I’m also honored that my recent Opera Mini posting was included in this … Continue reading
The mobile web has really been exploding with new sites lately. The most interesting one I’ve seen is 411Sync, a site with an easy to use and very flexible API that lets content providers do mobile mashups of all sorts of query based services like driving directions, transit schedule lookups or even just plain old RSS feeds. Oliver Starr at Mobile Crunch already did a great write up of Sync411. I just want to add a little to what Oliver … Continue reading
Does Opera Mini represent the future of mobile browsing? I don’t know for sure but I do believe it is the best mobile browser for most users right now. As most of you probably know, Opera Mini, or Mini for short, is a free Java ME application that can run on most current and many older phones. Mini is a small (100KB) application that implements a full html web browser that rivals and in many cases exceeds the performance of … Continue reading