Mobile Sites for SXSW Attendees and Followers

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Dennis Bournique

The big South By Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSW) in Austin, Texas starts today. SWSW Interactive is devoted to cutting edge technology in web and mobile. It occurs concurrently with the SXSW Film Conference and Festival March 13 through 17. The SXSW Music and Media Conference follows March 18 – 22. If you are at SXSW or just want to follow along with the festivities here are some mobile resources to keep you updated. The official SXSW.mobi site has news, complete … Continue reading →

Bookworm – O’Reilly’s Mobile Web eBook Reader

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Dennis Bournique

Bookworm (bookworm.oreilly.com) is an open source project to create a free online eBook reader. O’Reilly Publishing contributes support and hosting for Bookworm. The Bookworm desktop and mobile ( m.bookworm.oreilly.com) web sites let you read electronic books in the epub format, an open source specification for xml based electronic books. Epub is fast becoming the most popular standard for ebooks. The Sony Reader and popular eReader apps like Stanza for the iPhone, Windows and Mac and FBReader for Windows, Mac and … Continue reading →

Artnet – Mobile Art Magazine

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Dennis Bournique

Artnet Magazine, artnet.mobi on the mobile web covers the art business with an online art magazine and a database of fine art auction results. The site lets art buyers and sellers research fine & decorative art prices online. Artnet also features a directory of international galleries and articles about artists, galleries, major auctions and art market business trends. Artnet uses the Google mobile transcoder to convert major portions of the full Artnet site to mobile format. Source: Mobility.mobi Filed in: … Continue reading →

Wheretraveler – Free U.S. Mobile Travel Guides

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Dennis Bournique

The publisher of the Insider’s Guide series of travel books offers an alternative to bulky printed travel guides at WhereTraveler ( wheretraveler.com/m). The site has mobile web based guides to major US cities plus London and Paris. Guides list recommended Shops, Attractions, Tours, Transportation, Museums, Galleries, Neighborhoods, Spas, Salons, Theaters and Night Spots with descriptions, price range, address and click to call phone numbers. There’s a translation feature that will machine translate listings to 21 different languages. There’s also an … Continue reading →

How to Copy PC Bookmarks to UCWEB

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Dennis Bournique

Over at the UCWEB Forums, JBpseudo has come up with a way to transfer your PC bookmarks to the S60 native version of UCWEB6. It’s not nearly as simple and elegant as using Opera Link to keep your Opera Mini bookmarks synchronized across multiple browsers but it is a time saver if you have a lot of bookmarks. It works with any browser that can export bookmarks in the de facto standard Mozilla format including Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and … Continue reading →

Glocut – A Mobile Location Mashup With Great Usability

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Dennis Bournique

Glocut is one of the nicest local search web apps I’ve seen yet. What sets it apart from all the others is its deceptively simple but effective user interface. When you launch Glocut the first time you will need to enter your location. It’s not very fussy about formatting; a full street address, city, country, postal code or a landmark like “Times Square”; they all work . It gets even better, Glocut has a tiny Java or Windows Mobile native … Continue reading →

MobileRead – For Mobile eBook Fans

Posted on March 9, 2009 by Dennis Bournique

MobileRead, a very active blog and forum dedicated to finding and using eBook and Web content on mobile devices has a new mobile website at mobileread.mobi. The mobile edition has practically the entire content of the full version of MobileRead. You will find lots of good items about eBook readers, formats and sources of eBooks. Also tips on how to convert books to different mobile formats and getting the most from handheld devices. The focus is on dedicated book reading … Continue reading →

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