Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Search US Real Estate Listings On Your Phone

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Homes.com‘s slick looking mobile site at mobile.homes.com lets you search local real estate listings for residential rentals and properties for sale in the US. Listings include description, photo, map, asking price, address and the name address and phone number of the realtor offering the property. Search is by address, zip code or MLS ID. Results can be filtered by price, property type and number of bedrooms and/or baths and can be sorted by price or number of bedrooms/baths. At first … Continue reading →

FriendBinder – All Your friends in One Place

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FriendBinder is a new service that which went public with its Beta earlier this month and seems to be generating quite a bit of buzz. FriendBinder aggregates updates from your Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Last.fm and Delicious.com friends into a single stream, allowing you to keep track of all your social networks in one place. You can view all your friends as a single stream or filter the feed to show only updates the ones you are most interested in … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web 182

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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 1939 mobile sites. Shopping Petco Reviews m.petco.com User reviews and ratings of pet products carried by U.S. brick and mortar pet shop chain Petco. Hundreds of reviews for some products but no online shopping. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory Content: Usability: Weather WAPFORECAST wapforecast.com … Continue reading →

Sweet – Delivr Gets Ping.fm Integration

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My favorite link sharing tool just got even easier to use.  Delivr has added a share with Ping.fm button to the the detail page for every Delivr shared URL.  So now you can now share your Delivr links on Ping.fm with a single click.  This is great news for me as I already use Ping.fm for multicasting status updates and blog posts to Twitter, Facebook and several other social networks. If you are unfamiliar with Delivr.com and Ping.fm here’s a … Continue reading →

aBrilliantBlog Is Now A Mobile Blog

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aBrilliantBlog is Jeb Brilliant’s personal blog on all things mobile. Jeb is a social media and brand image consultant to the mobile industry and also runs a trade show and events production company. At aBrilliantBlog Jeb writes about mobile services, VOIP, social networking and devices, especially Nokias. Jeb uses the Mippin WordPress plugin to create the mobile version of aBrilliantBlog. I’m pleased to see that the Mippin plugin supports thematic consistency – a link to any post on the desktop … Continue reading →

DublinBikes iPhone App Pulled, Here’s a Mobile Web Alternative

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An iPhone app that helped Dubliners find available rental bikes has been pulled from the iTunes App Store.  For once it’s not Apple who is to blame but the bike rental company, JC Decaux. France’s Decaux, the maker of the famous Paris Sanisette automatic self cleaning toilets, is in reality a huge advertising business with billions of Euros in annual  revenue.  While Paris pays JC Deaux to build and maintain the Sanisette’s, the company has been very successful with a … Continue reading →

The Progress Project – Using Mobiles For Social Good

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The Progress Project is a joint venture by Nokia and Lonely Planet that documents the companies efforts to solve social, environmental and economic problems around the world. The solutions are varied but all involve mobile technology in some way. The Progress Project’s mobile and desktop Websites report on the various projects with text, photos and video. Currently featured are: Nokia Life Tools – helps Indian farmers bargain more effectively by checking crop prices in neighboring regions using their mobile phones. … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists at About Mobility

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The Carnival of the Mobilists has set up shop at C. Enrique Ortiz’ blog, About Mobility this week.  Enrique has selected the best posts from those submitted to create a showcase  of what’s new and exciting in mobile today. This week’s posts cover the gamut of today’s hot mobile topics. There are a couple of posts each on app stores and on mobile’s role in education and individual pieces on HD Voice, Opera Mini 5, the business of mobile music … Continue reading →