Meta Refresh a no-no for Mobile

Update: The Tour of California mobile site that I rant about below  no longer uses the  annoying meta-refresh!  Thank you, to whoever is responsible. There’s a bit of html, a meta tag which you can add to a web page to cause the page to reload after a specified number of seconds. It looks like <meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”60″> Which means that every 60 seconds the page will reload itself. It even works on many mobile web browsers. In general meta … Continue reading

Mini Bookmarklets – Not Broken

Update: Bookmarklets are working again! I don’t know what happened yesterday but I’m glad it was temporary, I’ve been bookmarking all day with no problems. Incidentally, I’ve added a couple more bookmarklets to o.yeswap.com Google Translate Translate the current page to English from Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish. Wayback Machine View old versions of the current page at archive.org. Ignore the rest of this post, it’s outdated and no longer true. —– It looks … Continue reading

Bookmarklets for Opera Mini

I’ve discovered something very useful which I think will help mobile social tagging to really take off – Opera Mini Bookmarklets. I’m addicted to bookmarklets, which I use all the time in my web browser. If you haven’t tried them yet, give bookmarklets a whirl. They give you browser toolbar buttons that do all sorts of neat things with the web page you are currently viewing. Like searching Technorati, Bloglines or Google Blogsearch for blog items that refer to the … Continue reading

The Mobile Technology Weblog: Mobile Edition

Update: Creative-Weblogging has fixed most of the browser detection issues with their mobile sites making much of what I wrote below no longer true. Opera Mini and Netfront are now recognized as mobile devices. See Creative-Weblogging CEO Torsten’s comments. It sounds like he is committed to making the CW sites mobile friendly. If you have a mobile browser that’s not getting the mobile edition of one of the Creative-Weblogging sites please leave a comment and I’ll try to pass it … Continue reading

2006 – The Mobile Web Grows Up

2006 has been an exciting year to be involved with the mobile web and mobile data in general. I want to highlight four major developments this past year which I believe are going to have a profound and positive effect on the quality of the mobile web experience for years to come. Mobile web advertising comes of age. I credit this almost entirely to AdMob, the startup that took the Google AdSense model and applied it to mobile. Seems like … Continue reading

Opera Mini 3.0 and Verizon-YouTube

Two big mobile web and data related announcements today. Opera has released Mini 3.0 and Verizon announced a deal that will put some YouTube videos on the carrier’s V-Cast media player for EVDO subscribers. Opera Mini is at 8 million users and Release 3.0 represents a significant upgrade. I’ve covered the 3.0 betas in some detail, the released version doesn’t add any features beyond the photo sharing, RSS feed reader and secure connections which were in the beta. It looks … Continue reading

Opera Mini 3 Beta 2 is out.

Just a quick post to help spread the word that Opera released a new Mini Beta today. I just downloaded it and it seems to load pages even faster than beta 1 which in turn was way faster then the released 2.4059 version. There’s an long list of bug fixes and enhancements in this thread on the Opera Mini Forum. One that particularly caught my eye was, “Experimental rtsp-support added”. RTSP is “real time streaming protocol”. I’m hoping this means … Continue reading