Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Found On The Mobile Web – Winter Olympics Special Edition

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Amazing Super Bowl win by the underdog New Orleans Saints!  But theres no time for sports fans to rest as the next big event on the sports calendar is the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, starting the Friday.  This week’s Found on the Mobile Web is an Olympics special bringing you the best mobile sites to follow all the games action. Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com … Continue reading →

The N900 Forecasts Mobile Browsing’s Future

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Using the N900’s MicroB browser is really an eye opener.  The combination of a relatively large screen, 800×480 px resolution, very good JavaScript performance and full desktop Flash is turning my my mobile browsing pattern upside  down.  When I use Opera Mini on an N95 or the Android browser on the HTC Magic, I typically spend 75% of my time on mobile sites and the rest on “full” web sites.  With the N900 it’s more like 50/50 and the percentage … Continue reading →

Mobile Bookmarklets for Webmasters

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WapReview reader and fellow blogger Selurus recently discovered that the Page Rank Checker bookmarklet on my Opera Mini Bookmarklets page at o.yeswap.com wasn’t working anymore. He suggested replacing it with a bookmarket he had made for  popuri.us, a new service  that shows not only a site’s Page Rank but also its Alexa Rank, Complete Rank, number of Yahoo  and Live Search Backlinks,  and Bloglines Subscribers. (It also supposed to show Quancast Rank, Google Backlinks, Technorati Links and Delicious Bookmarks, but … Continue reading →

Twitter on the N900 – What Are My Options?

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I’m not really a Twitter power user but I do follow a hundred or so people, tweet a few times a day and have two Twitter accounts.  My main account is @yeswap.  I also have a @boostapps account where I tweet whenever a new app gets added to my Boostapps.com app store for Boost Mobile prepaid users in the US.  I Twitdroid on Android, Gravity on Symbian and Tweete or Dabr in mobile browsers. So what should I use for … Continue reading →

Two Don’t Miss Events for MWC Attendees

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A couple of quick reminders for all of you attending MWC in Barcelona two weeks from now. The Mobile Premier Awards for the best grassroots startup innovation will be held at the Petit Palau of Palau de la Musica on Monday, February 15, 2010. Full price tickets at 99€  are available from Amiando. There’s a great deal for Dotopen members who can buy up to four tickets at the special price of 39€. Mobile Sunday Barcelona, a causal get together … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists 209

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Photo by =xAv= –  Some rights reserved Welcome to the 209th edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists.  Every Monday the Carnival pops up somewhere on the Web  to showcase the best recent posts on any aspect of the mobile ecosystem. This week it’s WapReview’s turn to host the Carnival and boy have we got some great stuff to share with you. So sit back and enjoy the read. At Always On Real-Time Access, Chetan Sharma analyzes technology that could … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #200

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Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2118 mobile sites. Entertainment/Mobile Video-Audio/Video Tubidy tubidy.mobi Tubidy is a new mobile front end to YouTube. Browse or search for videos from your country or globaly. Videos are converted to 3gp format and should be compatibile with most any phone that supports video … Continue reading →

Supercharge the N900 Browser With Bookmarklets

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Regular WapReview readers know I’m a big fan of browser bookmarkets, snippets of JavaScript in a browser bookmark that automate repetitive tasks in the browser.  Bookmarklets let you post  links to Twitter or  Delicious with just a couple taps. And that’s just the beginning, bookmarklets can simplify tasks like creating short URLs, subscribing to feeds in Google Reader or Bloglines, translating all or part of a web page to another language and changing illegible page colors to something more readable. … Continue reading →