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Found on the Mobile Web #209

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on April 5, 2010

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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 2197 mobile sites.

Sports/Motorsports

Yahoo! Formula 1

Yahoo! Formula 1 m.yahoo.com/w/yformula1 In partnership with Eurosport, Yahoo last week launched this slick new Formula One site with schedules, results, news, rankings, driver and team profiles. The site's stylish tabbed layout mirrors that of the "new" Yahoo mobile portal and is optimized for touch devices, smartphones and Opera Mini. Ratings: Content Usability

Reference - Tools

Fuelly m.fuelly.com Fuelly is an online auto fuel consumption site and social network for car owners interested in tracking their fuel consumption, comparing it with other drivers and viewing real world fuel economy figures for various makes and models of cars. The mobile site is strictly for recording fill-ups. To use it you must first register at www.fuelly.com, a PC site that is also usable with most smartphones. Source: Tappity
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Science and Technology/Mobile/News - Reviews

gerrymoth.co.uk

gerrymoth.co.uk gerrymoth.co.uk UK Blogger Gerry Moth has merged his three sites (nokiAAddict, Gerrymoth's 3UK and Gerrymoth.mp) into a new all in one domain, gerrymoth.co.uk where he promises to hold forth on "Nokia, Android, iPhone, Music, Web, Football, Beer, etc.. news, reviews and gossip." The new site is mobile friendly thanks to WordPress Mobile Pack.
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Entertainment/Movies

Ozanimate ozanimate.mobify.me A non-profit community based website showcasing Australian animation. Reviews and videos from TV series, short films, feature films and other animated content from ‘down under’. Resources for animation students and professionals. Mobile View by Mobify
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Science and Technology/Mobile/News - Reviews

Yahoo Mobile Blog

Yahoo! Mobile Blog ymobileblog.com/blog/ New mobile product announcements, tips and tricks and mobile industry news from the Yahoo! Mobile team. Made mobile with the Carrington WordPress Mobile Edition plugin.
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RSS - Blogging

DISQUS m.disqus.net is a blog comment system that provides a single sign on for commenters on all blogs using DISQUS. It also supports sharing comments on Twitter, Facebook or Yahoo. The mobile version of DISQUS lets bloggers moderate comments on their sites.
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Science and Technology/Mobile/OS/Brand Specific/Nokia

The Nokia Blog thenokiablog.com Mark Guim's blog features news, guides, reviews, previews and videos covering Nokia devices and software.
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TheNokiaBlog

Entertainment/Images

Local photos linkstore.ru/localphoto/ Location aware keyword search for images on Twitter. Shows nearby images on devices with location provider support like Android and the iPhone. JavaScript required.
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Reference - Tools/Health

Buckle Up! buckleup.mobi Public service site Buckle Up!, promotes seat belt usage with a debunking of seat belt myths like "I'd rather be thrown clear in a crash" and a selection of scary crash videos. Source: Mobile Mammoth
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Science and Technology/Mobile/OS/Brand Specific/Android

Android Tips and Tricks android-tips.com Android specific blog offers software recommendations and tips for optimizing your Android phone's power and usability.
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F1-Live's New Mobile Site

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Dennis Bournique

on May 5, 2009

in Motorsports

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F1-Live Mobile The 2009 Formula One season has gotten off to a surprising start with Jenson Button and the new Brawn team winning three of the first four races. An amazing turn around for Brawn, which is the ne'er-do-well Honda team with a new name and Mercedes engines.

Also new this season is a major redesign of F1-Live.com's mobile web site at m.f1-live.com. F1-Live is part of the Montpelier, France based Racing-Live.com group, which was acquired last year by ESPN. The redesign is by Scimob which is also in Montpelier.

The Racing-Live family of sites, which also includes Rally-Live, Racing-Live, Raid-Live and Moto-Live.com, is the biggest dedicated online motorsport destination with over three million monthly unique visitors.

The new mobile site has the full F1-Live news feed, plus photos, videos, race results, calendar, driver and constructors championship standings and live commentaries on race days. The site uses browser detection and adaptation to provide an optimized experience to the iPhone, Android and other advanced phones as well as to basic feature phones. It's available in 3 languages, English, French and Spanish.

F1-Live has long been my favorite site for F1 news and live coverage, although I liked it better before a lot of the content was put out behind a pay wall a couple of years ago. It's still the best source of F1 news with frequent daily updates. Fortunately the mobile edition is completely free, including the videos and live reports.

If you follow Moto-GP or road rallying be sure to check out F1-Live Mobile's sister sites, m.rally-live.com and m.moto-live.com which use the same basic design as m-f1-live.com.

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Ready.mobi Score: 4 "Good"

Mobile Link: m.f1-live.com

Revvs - Mobile Motorsports News Aggregator

Published

Dennis Bournique

on November 7, 2008

in Motorsports

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m.Revvs.net is a new motorsports mobile web site which presents excepts (typically the first paragraph of a longer story) pulled from news sources around the world. Each story is illustrated with a 128x128px image. There's a lot of news on this site, with around 60 news items appearing on the site at any time, probably more than any other mobile motorsports site. Revvs covers all areas of the sport with dedicated sections for F1, MotoGP and NASCAR and an "Other Stores" section with items on A1GP, SP2, WRC British Superbikes, etc. Page size is low, about 2KB of text and 10KB of images per page ensuring compatibility with virtually any web capable phone.

The only problem I have with Revvs is that the stories are excerpts and to read the full story you need to click on the "Source" links at the bottom of each page - which link directly to full web versions of the story. The linked pages are almost always too large to load on a typical feature phone - which seems to be the market segment Revvs is targeting. Even trying to load them could cause a nasty billing shock for users on metered data plans.

Revvs needs to offer the option to open external links in a transcoder such as Google's GWT. Google is apparently OK with 3rd party sites linking through their transcoder, even high volume sites like Taptu are doing it. It does need to be optional though. I use a simple interstitial page on wapreview.mobi that offers users a choice of several transcoders or no transcoding at all. The choice of transcoders is probably overkill but the option to not transcode is essential as transcoders pretty much destroy the browsing experience for users with full web mobile browsers like Opera Mini.

Mobile Link: m.Revvs.net

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