Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Goodrec – User Generated Ratings in 160 Characters

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Goodrec is another user generated reviews site somewhat like Zagat, Yelp and Boorah. Like Yelp, Goodrec is not limited to covering restaurants, users can rate and recommend anything; clubs, hotels, restaurants, services, products, etc. Goodrec differentiates itself from its competitors in a couple of ways. For one, Goodrec limits reviews (which it calls “recommendations”) to a concise and mobile friendly 160 characters and encourages users to submit them from their mobiles. In a video interview, Goodrec co-founder touts the ease … Continue reading →

AAA Mobile – TourBook and Directions

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The American Automobile Association (AAA) mobile site is a useful one to bookmark for US residents and visitors alike whether they are driving or not. Most services do not require an AAA membership to use. The best part of AAA Mobile is the “TourBook” which provides online mobile access to the hotel, restaurant, event and attractions listings in the AAA’s print guidebooks. The AAA guides are quite comprehensive, easily rivaling commercial guides like Fodors. Listings include descriptions, address, click to … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #59

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Found on the Mobile Web is an 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 1597 mobile sites. Entertainment/Life Style Guggenheim Venice peggyg.mobi/homeeng_9.php Information site for visitors to the Guggenheim Museum in Venice. Lists hours, special exhibitions, tours and fees and also has click to call phone numbers and directions to the museum. Source Mobility.mobi Content: Usability: News/International/Europe … Continue reading →

PocketMalta – Events, Attractions, Shops and Restaurants

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Information on events, attractions and other visitor services for the Mediterranean island nation of Malta. The site also has Malta and international news headlines and directory of shops, restaurants and clubs, a page of information about Malta and another with click to call numbers for emergency services The directory of shops and services seems incomplete with, for example, only a single listing (a hairdresser) in Birkirkara, Malta’s largest (population 21,000) town. Most listings contain only the business name and address, … Continue reading →

ezmogo – Get Discount Coupons for Local Stores On Your Phone

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ezmogo is a mobile web service that lets you search for discount coupons and special offers on services, entertainment, retail stores, restaurants, and more in the U.S. Similar sites include Xtra! Coupons and PocketDeal in the U.S. and ActiveDeals for India. There are two ways to find coupons with ezmogo. You can browse through categories of offerings for your location or you can enter a “Quick Code” found on an ad, flyer or poster. To redeem a coupon just show … Continue reading →

Mobile Collaboration With Nokia’s Easy Meet

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Updated: 17-Apr-2009 Voice conferencing information added. Nokia has entered the online collaboration space with a Beta Labs offering called Easy Meet. No, it’s not a dating service,  it’s  a collaboration tool that lets you set up online meetings with  shared Power Point documents and  jpeg and png images, plus chat, meeting notes, voice conference calling  and attendee presence indicators so that everyone can see who’s joined the meeting and who’s playing hooky or lost connectivity. Meetings can be add-hoc or … Continue reading →

The Las Vegas Sun’s Mobile Edition

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One of the nicer mobile efforts from a news daily, the full featured mobile edition of the Las Vegas Sun at m.lasvegassun.com has news, weather and sports, an Arts & Entertainment section, editorials, staffer blogs and a local event calendar. Mobile users can view but not submit comments on articles and blog posts. Large images and lack of pagination on news items with many comments make some pages too large to load on phones with the Motorola MIB browser which … Continue reading →

A Mobile Guide to Amsterdam

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The Amsterdam Mobile Guide at us.holland.com/mobile is a new visitors guide to Amsterdam from the Netherlands Board of Tourism and Conventions. It has extensive coverage of attractions, bars, gay and lesbian events and establishments, restaurants, hotels, museums and transportation options with loads of photos and an interactive map. Although billed as being usable with all mobile browsers, the site is clearly optimized for advanced devices with large screens like the iPhone and G1. With some horizontal scrolling, it’s also usable … Continue reading →