The Formula One auto racing season kicks off next Sunday with the Melbourne Grand Prix. Here’s a look at some sites that let you follow the F1 circus on your mobile phone. F1-Live.com: I’ve just found an i-mode version of the elusive F1-Live mobile site. F1-Live has some of the best F1 coverage on the mobile web with daily news and very detailed live reports. There are lots of photos and it’s all presented in a mobile friendly and reasonably … Continue reading
Tappity is a new mobile social bookmarking site. This is a genre that didn’t exist a year ago and now has at least four players, WapTags (review), Mobleo (review), Mopitopia (review) and now Tappity.com (mobile – mobile.tappity.com). Unlike the other three, with Tappity you do all your tagging from your desktop browser, there is no way to tag or bookmark from the mobile site. I think mobile tagging is an essential feature. I want to be able to tag mobile … Continue reading
I’ve criticized CNN in the past for their policy of blocking users whose carrier is not a CNN “partner” or if they are using Opera Mini. It looks like that may be changing. CNN together with Ericsson have launched cnnmobile.com, a slick new mobile news site targeted at users in the NEMA (Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America) markets but seemingly accessible from any IP address. Like the still restricted by IP address CNN US mobile site at mobile.cnn.com, … Continue reading
You can’t help but notice those colored traffic overlays on Yahoo, Windows Live and Local TV Maps. I think it’s a great idea. Using data from sensors embedded in the pavement of highways in major metropolitan areas these sites show a road as green if traffic is moving at 50 mph or better, yellow for 25 to 50 mph and red for less than 25. Great for estimating when you have to leave for an appointment and for choosing the … Continue reading
Social bookmarking using del.icio.us and similar sites is huge on the web and I think it’s about to really take off on the mobile web too. Surfing, bookmarking and sharing your bookmarks doesn’t require intensive keying, so it works as well on the mobile web as it does on the full web. I’d go so far as to say that social bookmarking has the potential to become as become as big as sharing ringtones and photos. A great way to … Continue reading
FunForMobile.com is an interesting MoSoSo (mobile social software) site. Like Zedge.net (review) and mobile9.com, it provides a handy way to send ringtones, videos and wallpapers to your phone. With the carriers greedily charging as much as $2.50 for a ringtone which expires in 90 days! sites like FunForMobile should be getting lots of traffic. You upload your content to FunForMobile’s PC site and download it to your phone from their wml WAP site wap.funformobile.com. FunForMobile can also send the content … Continue reading
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
Mobitopia 2.0 (mobitopia.com) is to the mobile web what del.icio.us is the the PC web, a place to store and share links to interesting sites. If you aren’t familiar with the huge Web 2.0 success that is del.icio.us, this Wikipedia article will get you up to speed. Mobitopia’s motto is “Mobile Links That Don’t Suck (TM)“. Seeing as anyone can register and post public links to the site there’s also the admonishment, “Please don’t add mobile links just to add … Continue reading