Photo: Fair Night by Kenn Kiser The latest Carnival of the Mobilists is now up at Mobile Jones. The Carnival is weekly collection of the best submitted blog items on mobile topics. This week’s host Debi Jones, has selected a very interesting group of posts so be sure to take a look. Next week the Carnival will be at C. Enrique Ortiz’ Mobility Weblog. If you would like to participate, submit your best item on any aspect of the mobile … Continue reading
Winksite is just an amazing resource for both mobile users and bloggers. There are so many useful services on the site. First of all, bloggers can create a free mobile edition of their blog almost instantly by entering the feed url as shown in the image below. The first small image shows what the mobile blog looks like on the phone. If you don’t have a blog, you can create a mobile blog hosted by Winksite. Then, using a simple … Continue reading
Daily Gadget a popular blog and forum covering geek toys – including phones, pda’s and the latest PC and mac hardware and software – now has a mobile site. The mobile site appears to have built using phpBB, the popular Open Source forum software with the phbBBlite template. The lite template wasn’t really designed for mobile sites but rather for building low bandwidth web sites. Nonetheless, it works fairly well as a WAP2 site. The main page is 19 KB … Continue reading
Wap Review is honored to be hosting this weeks Carnival of the Mobilists. The idea of the Carnival is to expose a variety of the best writing on mobility in one place. It is held at a different blog each week and is open to anyone who has something to say about mobile phones; technology, industry, marketing, user interface design, effects on society and individuals or anything else – as long as it has some relevance to mobiles. The host … Continue reading
In the web world the, according to Alexa, the big three in traffic are Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft’s MSN portal. A lot of this volume comes from search as the same three are the most popular search engines although the order in search is Google, Yahoo and MSN. These three sites are the kings of the Internet at the moment. They all have tons of money to spend on R&D and market research. And they need to spend it so … Continue reading
Last week, I looked at several WAP based RSS Readers. I have a couple of significant updates. First, Feedalot has fixed the problem where html entities were parsed incorrectly causing garbage characters in feed items. As a result, I’m now using Feedalot rather than Winksite as my primary mobile feed reader. I still think that Winksite has a cleaner, more intuitive and generally faster user interface than Feedalot – but the fact that Feedalot shows me whether a feed has … Continue reading
Photo: Sunrise Jesters by George Imrie The latest Carnival of the Mobilists is in full swing. The Carnival is weekly collection of the best blog items on mobile. Each week a different blogger hosts the Carnival and chooses which items to include. This week’s host is SmartMobs. Next week the Carnival will be right here at the WAP Review Blog. If you would like to participate, just send a link to your best item on any aspect of the mobile … Continue reading
ESPN I’ve noticed from looking at my site’s stats that the majority of my readers are not from the US. In addition, I’m not really much of a sports fan. So why am I writing about a site’s coverage of “American football”? Why is it important? Simply this, sports have a huge fan base. In the US it’s football, in Europe it’s football too, although we call it soccer. In India cricket is a national obsession. I suspect that everywhere … Continue reading