A List Apart (ALA) is a highly regarded online magazine covering web design and development started by Jeffrey Zeldman in 1998. ALA is notable not only for the quality of its articles but also for the visual design and standards compliance of the site. ALA last week launched a mobile version which continues the tradition of superior design and usability set by the main site. ALA mobile scores 5 out of 5 on the ready.mobi test and the markup validates. … Continue reading
I just found Ricky Cadden’s personal blog at rickycadden.com, and it’s available in mobile friendly format! Ricky’s one of my favorite tech writers. He’s the Editor of Symbian-Guru.com and News Editor at MobileBurn.com. On his blog Ricky covers everything mobile related especially tips for making the most of your phones and apps along with his observations on life in general. The site uses a brand new 3.0 version of Alex King’s Word Press Mobile Edition plugin which is optimized for … Continue reading
The Carnival this week is hosted by Andrew Grill at London Calling. In honor of the G20 International Financial Summit, which Andrew calls the other important event besides the Carnival that’s happening this week in London, he’s grouped the posts by the author’s home country. This Carnival is an international affair with articles on the cost of mobile services in Africa and on mobile opportunities in India and China. Other items look at using the sensors in mobile phones with … Continue reading
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 1537 mobile sites. Entertainment/Life Style/Fashion and Style aritzia.com m.aritzia.com Mobile site of Vancouver based young women’s clothing retailer Aritzia. It’s a slick looking site designed by Mobify.me and featuring fashion photos, runway and interview videos and a store locator. Content: Usability: News Indian … Continue reading
phling! (phling.com, phling.mobi) is a service that gives you access to the music, podcasts, and pictures stored on your PC and allows you to share them with up to six friends. It’s a lot like a mobile-only, audio and images-only version of Orb. To use phling! you need to download an application to your PC (Windows XP only, Vista “coming soon”, Windows Media Player 10 or later required). On the mobile side you can use the phling! mobile website or … Continue reading
Nabbit ( m.nabbit.co) is a new service that reminds me of mobile.yes.com. Both sites tell you what’s currently playing on almost any U.S. radio station. The key difference is that Nabbit has more features but requires free registration. Registration lets Nabbit remember your location and favorite stations. The downside is that you can’t just start using it right a way on your phone, you need to visit the Nabbit PC site to create an account and specify your preferred stations, … Continue reading
The venerable (founded 1785) U.K. daily The Times, has a rather nice mobile site at timesmobile.mobi. The attractive and content rich site features articles from the paper’s News, Business, Sport, Tech & Web, Entertainment, Weather, Markets and Jobs sections. But that’s not all, earlier this month The Times launched a new feature, the Going Out Guide. It’s a location based directory of nearby events, movies and watering holes. The guide looks useful with a large database of establishments, reviews and … Continue reading
Salon.com is a long running (since 1995) and popular online magazine. It covers music, books, music, technology, trends, sports and politics with lengthy, well-written articles. Mobile is nothing new to Salon which launched an Avantgo “feed” in 2001 that’s also available on the open mobile web at http://www.salon.com/partner/avantgo/. That text-only site is still active, unchanged in format in eight years. It carries a selection of about ten recent articles from Salon. It’s an interesting read but probably a bit limiting … Continue reading