Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

LibraryThing – A Social Network For Book Lovers

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A social network for book lovers. LibraryThing lets you build an online catalog of your books, rate them and write reviews. It gives you recommendations of new books you may like based on the likes of other members with similar tastes. There are links to Amazon and other online booksellers. A basic membership, allowing you to catalog 200 books, is free. Unlimited cataloging is $10/year or $25 “for life”. Social networking features include a profile page for each member, groups, … Continue reading →

YouTube Mobile Site Update – Direct Mobile Video Uploads, Commenting and More

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The newly redesigned YouTube mobile site (m.youtube.com) adds social sharing features and direct video uploading.   The new version, which was released August 6, 2009, doesn’t really look much different. The new stuff isn’t visible until you log in. I’ll admit that I didn’t actually have a YouTube account until yesterday, I watch a lot of videos on YouTube, mostly by following links from other sites but I never really felt the need to share my own videos on the … Continue reading →

Lots of Fail With CitiBank’s New Mobile Web Site

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Citibank, the fifth largest U.S. bank in deposits, recently launched a mobile web site. Read more about it on the bank’s promotional page. This should be good news. Most of the other big banks launched mobile web based online banking sites a couple years ago. Citi initially chose to go with a Java app which only supported a few handsets and was further restricted to specific operator, device combinations. I can’t imagine Citi’s application gained much traction with all the … Continue reading →

Speed Test – Opera Mini, Bolt, Skyfire and UCWEB

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About a month ago All About Symbian‘s  Rafe Blandford published an extensive set of browser speed test results. Rafe compared page load times for ten well known US and UK sites using eght different Nokia S30 3rd and 5th editon devices plus the T-Mobile G1, iPhone 3G, Skyfire and Opera Mini.  Latter Matthew Miller at Smartphones and Cellphones updated Rafe’s data with numbers for the iPhone 3GS and Opera Mobile 9.7.  Rafe and Matthew’s data showed that smartphone browsers are … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web 175

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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 1842 mobile sites. Travel-Transit The Travel Editor www.thetraveleditor.com/mobile/ City Guides and top 10 lists for travelers including hotel and restaurant reviews and suggested things to do from the mobile edition of The Travel Editor, an online travel guide. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory. Content: … Continue reading →

mKhoj Is Now InMobi – Mobile Ad Biz Booming

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WapReview advertiser mKhoj has re-branded itself as InMobi (press release).  The name change coincides with the firm’s entry into the European mobile ad market.  As mKhoj, the Bangalore based mobile advertising network had focused primarily on Asia and Africa. The mobile web advertising business is certainly ramping up.  More and more companies, both traditional web advertising networks and start-ups like InMobi, are entering the market. Some analysts might argue that the field is getting too crowded and that a shakeout … Continue reading →

I’ve Rediscovered Tweete

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Twitter was down all morning thanks to a stupid DDOS attack. When it came back up my favorite Twitter mobile client, Dabr, didn’t come back up with it.  Dabr’s still down 14 hours latter.  After using the Twitter.com’s extremely limited mobile site for a while I started looking for alternatives.  The first one I tried was Tweete. Not only was it working but Tweete has added a whole bunch of features since I last looked at it in in December. … Continue reading →

Dataopedia’s Mobile Formatted Web Traffic Statistics

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If you are at all interested web traffic statistics, or just want to see how your site is doing take a look at Dataopedia. The site combines data, including charts and graphs, from Alexa, Quantcast, Compete, Google, Digg, Delicious, registrar records and other sources into to a single page packed with site metrics. It doesn’t really tap into mobile traffic data sources and doesn’t read .mobi registrar records so its more useful for analyzing desktop websites than mobile ones. The … Continue reading →