If you use Google’s AdSense platform to to serve ads on your desktop or mobile sites you can now check your earnings with your mobile browser. Google’s new AdSense Mobile web interface opens up to show your current day’s earnings, total unpaid earnings and the amount of your last payment. You can also pull up graphs showing your daily earnings for the last 7 or 30 days or for the current or previous months as well as any custom reports … Continue reading
MobileMonday NYC founder and prolific mobile entrepreneur David Harper (Winksite, Delivr, PercentMobile) has co-founded another new venture. It’s Go800 (go800corp.com), and it allows people to call your phone by texting your Twitter name to 46800 (“go800” on phone keypads). You can connect your Go800 enabled name to just about any sort of phone number, including mobile, landline, Skype, toll-free or Google Voice numbers. The default is for your Go800 name to be public, meaning anyone who knows your Twitter name … Continue reading
Click images to zoom Fans of the UC Browser on Android can now download an English language translation of the latest version of the Chinese proxy browser. UC Forum member James, aka JBIN did the translation. According to him the translation is not complete. It’s certainly usable, top level menus are in English although there are still some Chinese only fields in sub-menus and the browser start page (image top left) and some of the prompts (image bottom right) are … Continue reading
This isn’t new but I just discovered it. There’s a mobile formatted version of every Tumblr blog. To see it, just add “/mobile” to the end of a Tumblr blog’s URL. There’s doesn’t seem to be any mobile browser detection and redirection, you have to manually change the URL. A few examples from Social Media Explorer‘s list the Top 25 Tumblr.com Blogs: pluimer.tumblr.com/mobile brouillon.tumblr.com/mobile chappedlipsandchiclets.tumblr.com/mobile http://clientsfromhell.net/mobile Tumbler is a free microblogging service that lets users post text, images and video … Continue reading
I recently discovered Niels Leenheer’s HTML5Test.com. It’s another test suite that attempts to measure a browser’s support for components of the HTML (formerly HTML5) and CSS3 draft specs. Like the W3C’s Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers – version 2 this one assigns a numeric score representing the browsers overall compliance with the specs. It shows pass/fail grades for each individual test as well. As Niels points out, his test is not complete and doesn’t cover all the fetaures of … Continue reading
I just posted an item on Prepaid Phone News about using a closeout Palm Pixi Plus on the US prepaid MVNO PagePlus. These phones are going for $65 or less brand new on Amazon and elsewhere. They are Verizon CDMA models and as far as I know won’t work on any operator except Verizon or an MVNO that uses the Verizon network like PagePlus. However, the Pixi Plus has WiFi and it’s possible to use one for app development or … Continue reading
I’ve updated the Mobile Bookmarklets page at o.yeswap.com. It has over 40 tested mobile bookmarklets and instructions for using them. I’ve gone through the page and fixed bookmarks that were no longer working where possible and deleted the broken ones that I couldn’t fix. I also added a couple of new bookmarkets. New bookmarklets added: Add to Pinboard – adds the current page to the social bookmarking site pinboard.in Add to Diigo – adds the current page to the social … Continue reading
Update 22-Feb-2011: I’m happy to report that Gawker Media has fixed the issue of deep links not working in mobile browsers sometime in the last couple of days. I don’t know if it was in response to my post or something that happened independently but either way, Thanks Gawker! -> It’s been been nearly two weeks since the big Gawker Media redesign on the online hand wringing over it shows no sign of winding down. On Feb 8th Gawker, Gizmodo, … Continue reading