Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Hyatt Hotel’s New Mobile Site

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Hotel booking sites are traditionally the usability black hole of the mobile web. Finding and booking a hotel at the last minute is something every traveler occasionally has to do. The mobile web seems like an ideal way to do this, yet the major booking sites and hotel chains do not seem to have much interest in capturing this enormous opportunity. Most mobile hotel sites appear to be thrown together with no real usability testing or understanding of the unique … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #63

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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 1675 mobile sites. Technology/Mobile/Downloads Get it 4 Free getit4free.mobi Free ringtone, wallpaper and video downloads. Getit4Free.mobi encourages the exchange of free and non-copyrighted mobile content. All available content on Getit4Free.mobi is free of charge (except for possible data charges). Content: Usability: Technology/Tech News … Continue reading →

Smart Mobs On the Mobile Web

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Smart Mobs is an active and popular Web site covering  technology, especially mobile and the Internet, and its relation to society, culture and politics.  The emphasis is on using tech for social good and political action.  The site has a big following among web and mobile people. Smart Mobs‘ editor and a major contributor is Howard Rheingold, an author and researcher who  has been studying technology and its effects on thought and human  interaction since the 1980’s. Among his many … Continue reading →

Drugs.mobi – Look Up Any Pill

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Not sure what those pills your doctor prescribed are for and what side effects to watch out for? Wondering about the strange pills you found in Johnny’s room? Or are you a medical professional who needs quick access to a professional drug reference in the field? Drugs.mobi combines separate professional and consumer drug references with a handy “Pill Wizard” for identifying mystery pills. Search by drug name or shape, color and the imprint on a pill or capsule. The wizard … Continue reading →

Nokia Beta Lab's New Mobile Site

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Nokia Beta Labs. which offers often useful, bleeding edge applications and services for Nokia phones finally has a mobile site. It used to be a pain navigating the full version of Beta Labs with a mobile browser, even a capable one like the WebKit based browser on S60 3rd editon (and a couple of S40) models. With the “Services” browser on mainstream Nokia handsets, forget about it! The new mobile site is very complete and highly usable. It has the … Continue reading →

Dailymotion Mobile Video

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Depending on who is doing the counting, DailyMotion is either the number two or three user generated video sharing site (after YouTube) in terms of traffic. The new Dailymotion mobile site lets you search or browse though videos in subject area “channels”. Or you can jump right into the “Most viewed”, “Most recent”, “Most popular” and “Best Rated” lists. It looks like the mobile site only contains a subset of the videos on the desktop site though. I was unable … Continue reading →

Mobify – The Designer’s Choice

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Handi Mobility‘s mobile design and hosting platform, Mobify.me has scored some significant wins lately. A number of web and product designers are using it to create mobile versions of their own sites. Here are a few of the design sites using Mobify.me Jeffrey Zeldman’s A List Apart, one of the top web design sites in traffic and influence. Web designer and Creative Director at Twitter, Douglas Bowman’s personal site, Stopdesign. Graphic and Web designer Veerle Pieter‘s blog. John Boardley’s I … Continue reading →

Ozone Browser For S60 and UIQ 3

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O3Mobi’s Ozone is an  interesting new web browser available for S60 3rd Edition Feature pack 1 and 2 phones.  There’s also a version forUIQ 3 touch screen devices.  Download Ozone from o3mobi.com.   Like the default S60 browser, Ozone is based on the open source WebKit engine. It has some great features including  support for advanced web technologies like Ajax  and HTML5.  It is an initial Alpha release with a few glitches but is quite usable and stable. Ozone is a … Continue reading →