Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Carnival of the Mobilists – No 29

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Shanghai Carnival by Ya Ya This weeks Carnival is hosted by Ajit Jaokar at Open Gardens. Ajit’s assembled an interesting and informative set of posts on the mobile computing revolution. This week’s items range from insights into the mobile industry, tales from the trenches by marketers and users, exciting new devices, services and software as well as prognostications into the future of mobility. Regardless of what aspect of handheld computing or wireless innovation interests you most, I’m sure you will … Continue reading →

Google Reader

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Six months ago I posted a piece entitled All I want is a good WAP RSS Reader comparing all the mobile web based rss aggregators that I could find at that time. Last week Google released a mobile version of their Reader. Here’s my take on the latest entrant in mobile feed reading wars. First of all, the main advantage that web based aggregators have is that they maintain the state of your feed reading experience across devices. If you … Continue reading →

Flickr Mobile

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This isn’t new but I just discovered it. Flickr has a mobile site! It’s a beta and pretty basic but fun if you have a Flickr account or know someone who does. There’s no need to login to use most of the features of the site. You can see the latest public photos posted to Flickr – which amounts to a constantly changing random assortment of images – most of them unfortunately not very interesting. If you have someone’s Flickr … Continue reading →

Google wml “Go to URL”

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The wml version of Google mobile search used to have a “Go To Url” option that let specify the url of a website. Google then returned a copy of the site transcoded into wml. The transcoding wasn’t very fancy, everything except text and links was stripped out. Still, it let you view any site on a wml-only phone. Google still offers the transcoding functionality as part of their mobile search portal for both wml and wap2 but the ability to … Continue reading →

Wampad Updates

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I got an email from Shawn McCollum, the guy who created the WamPad site I blogged about a couple of weeks ago. Shawn’s made some nice updates to the site. To quote Shawn’s email: 1. Website Entry – I’ve updated it so you can access sites with or without transcoding . I was playing around with a bunch of different crazy ideas but at the very end I went with a simple approach. So it’s just a list of links … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists 28

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This weeks Carnival is at Digital Evangelist. It’s the 28th edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists, a collection of the best recent posts on mobile topics hosted at a different mobile themed blog each week. The Carnival has a new look thanks to a handsome gotomedia designed logo (at left) and button (see sidebar). In addition, the Carnival now has it’s own blog which contains a directory to all the Carnivals past and present, a mobile events calendar, background … Continue reading →

Mobile Finance Sites

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I’ve been trying to build up a little money for retirement and lately I’ve been dabbling in the stock market. I use the mobile web during my two hour round trip commute on the train to try to learn more about the market and research stocks I’m considering. What follows is my assessment of current mobile investment sites. Keep in mind that I’m not a sophisticated investor, these are just my personal observations – mainly on the depth of content … Continue reading →

Carnival 27

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The latest Carnival of the Mobilists has been posted at The 3G Portal. Host Steve Jones has gathered a fantastic collection of articles on all areas of mobile – browsing, carriers, marketing, hardware, politics and more. Visit the Carnival today. And while your at The 3G Portal, take some time to explore the site, it’s one of the biggest and best mobile technology news sites around. The Carnival is a collection of the best blog posts on mobile topics. To … Continue reading →