Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Found on the Mobile Web 53

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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 1430 mobile sites. Search/Local/City Guides Minneapolis St Paul Mag mspmag.mobi Restaurant guide, restaurant reviews, shops guide, arts and entertainment calendar, nightlife and bars guide for Minneapolis St Paul, Minnesota. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory Content: Usability: Travel-Transit CN Traveler Tipping Guide m.cnt.acumob.com Conde Nast … Continue reading →

Afrigator – Mobile Memetracker for African Blogs

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Afrigator is a memetracker that collects and links to posts in English by African bloggers. The tabbed front page is divided  into seven topic categories; Life, Entertainment, Business, Tech, Politics, Religion and Sport with a default tab that lists the newest and most popular posts from all categories. I’m pretty impressed with depth and breath of writing found on Africator. One could pretty much keep up with what’s happing in the world and in tech solely by reading African bloggers! … Continue reading →

AirWX – Free Mobile Tools For Pilots

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AirWX Mobile ( m.airwx.com) is a free mobile site that gives U.S. pilots instant access to weather and other aviation related data on their mobile phones. Services include current and forecast weather maps, pilot reports (PIREP), distance between US airports, airport maps and information, listings of Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs), conversions between miles/knots and °F/ °C and flight tracking by tail number number. A similar site  is  Aeroplanner at  aeroplanner.com/mobile (free registration at aeroplanner.com required). Source Oh! Mobile Directory Filed … Continue reading →

Mobile Web News Site Tries a Paywall

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Bloomington, Indiana is a college town with a population of about 70,000.  The Bloomington Herald Times is local daily and its mobile web site,  htonl.mobi is unusual in that it’s one of the few mobile newspaper sites I’ve seen that has a paywall.  Like the Herald Times’ full site, the mobile one requires a $5.95/month subscription to view all the content.  There is some free content on the site including  the weather forecast, classifieds, events calendar, movie show times, wining … Continue reading →

Automate Mobile Browsing With UCWEB Searchlets

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One of the great things about the Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers is their support for bookmarklets which JavaScript bookmarks that interact with the current page. Bookmarklets can send the page’s URL to a web service like Google Translate to retrieve a copy in your native language or post the URL to social bookmarking service such as Delicious.com.  Bookmarklets can also modify the page to do things like change plain text URLs into clickable links. While bookmarklets are supported … Continue reading →

Fifth Third Bank – First LL.mobi

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A couple of months ago, dotMobi announced the availability of one and two character domain names. These so called “L” and “LL” names are considered highly desirable because they are easier to type, an especially important consideration for mobile. If a short name is a logical abbreviation of a company or site’s full name it can be easy to remember too. Like aa.com for American Airlines and kp.org for Kaiser Permanente, a big U.S. HMO. Rather than selling these short … Continue reading →

Hotel.mobi – Not as Promised

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I saw a  press release today on TMC.net touting a new hotel search and booking site; ” Hotel.mobi, a portal run by Quinv SA, a Luxembourg-based company that invests in domain names and high value web portals, has announced the official launch of its website, http://www.hotel.mobi a web directory enabling mobile users to find the hotels near their current location and call the hotels’ booking desks in one single click.” All of which sounds great.  For some reason mobile sites … Continue reading →

Canada’s “The Score” Goes Mobile

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The Score  is a  Canadian cable TV sports chanel.  The Score’s mobile site ( m.thescore.com) covers all major North American professional sports with news, information, highlights, schedules, betting line and live scores. As befits the name, The Score Mobile’s front pages consists of the latest live scores for a single sport, currently NBA basketball.  You can customize The Score Mobile to show a different sport or league on the front page and adjust the auto refresh frequency and set your … Continue reading →