I’ve added Earthcomber, a new mobile web local search site to the WapReview direcctory and Yeswap.com mobile portal under Search/Local. For a search site Earthcomber is unusual in that it’s menu driven – there is no search box. After setting your location, which involves keying in an address or just a zip code, you use a hierarchical menu to drill down to the category you are interested in. So to find a sushi place, chose, Let’s Eat on the home … Continue reading
I saw an interesting video on PSFK.COM. It was a demo of a newish LBS mobile web service called Socialight which is based around sticky notes (aka Post-it’s ™) that are tied to a particular location. Users create the free-form notes to scribble their impressions of a restaurant or club, as either a private reminder to self, a “Meet me here” note visible only to friends or as a shared bit of knowledge viewable by anyone. What really caught my … Continue reading
Traffic.com has a nice new mobile web version of their real-time traffic alert system at mobi.traffic.com. It currently covers 49 US metros. You pick your city from a drop down and then choose a highway from a paged list or click “Hotspots” to see the 10 most congested roads in your metro. Traffic.com uses a nifty and intuitive thermometer graphic to show the relative congestion on each road. You can drill down into a particular highway and see average and … Continue reading
I saw Mojeo presented at the Mobile 2.0 Event in San Francisco Monday as part of a Launchpad presentation spotlighting new services. I wasn’t too impressed with the presentation which was brief and lacking in details, but I did jot down “mojeo.mobi, location based search – any phone, add mashups”. Today I took a look at Mojeo.mobi which is the mobile site and the PC site, www.mojeo.mobi. I found a clever and useful but definitely beta service that has the … Continue reading
For a long time mobile visionaries have been heralding the imminent arrival of Location Based Services (LBS), and the revolutionary mobile applications and services that they will make possible. Since the beginning of this year, US cellular operators have been legally required under the provisions of E911-Phase II to furnish real time geolocation data to emergency agencies when users call 911, the nation-wide emergency telephone number. The requirements specify that the systems be able to locate the user with an … Continue reading