Category Archives: Site Reviews

JumpTap – Pure Mobile Search

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Jumptap is a mobile search, advertising and content delivery (think ring tones and games) startup that got $22 million in round C funding recently. Their search business provides a “white label” search box on mobile carrier portals. Other white label search companies include FAST, InfoSpace and Medio. Compared to Google or Yahoo, white label search vendors claim to generate more revenue for the carrier by sharing a larger percentage of advertising dollars and by giving prominent placement in search results … Continue reading →

Enhanced Phone Book for iDEN Phones

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Steve Punter has released PhoneBook Extreme, a Java ME replacement for the stock Contacts, Recent Calls and Call Timer applications on many of the Motorola phones used on iDEN networks like Nextel, Southern Linc and Telus. I’ve been a beta tester for the last month and can tell you that PhoneBook Extreme rocks. It adds a tremendous amount of functionality compared to the Motorola equivalents and is easier to use to as well. The Motorola phone book on these phones … Continue reading →

Lifehacker Mobile

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It looks like the hugely popular Lifehacker.com blog, which recommends time saving technology and techniques to make yourself more productive, now has a mobile site. The announcement is here. There is no mobile specific url, Lifehacker is using browser detection at lifehacker.com to deliver mobile content to phones – at least the ones it recognizes. I played around with feeding Lifehacker a dozen different mobile user-agent headers and Lifehacker delivered mobile content to the majority of them. The Ericsson T68 … Continue reading →

Socialight – Geocoded Stickynotes

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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 →

GameJump – Free Mobile Games

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Update: After a six year run, Gamejump has shut down. Mobile games and apps that were distributed with Gamejump’s ad-supported wrapper no longer work, failing with the message “Connection Failure. Unable to connect. Please check to make sure your phone has service“. Gamejump’s parent company Greystripe, posted the following  message  on their Facebook Page: “Greystripe has discontinued all support for the Java AdWrap for Publishers and Catalog programs as of June 20, 2011. This only affects the Java AdWrap programs; we … Continue reading →

Nine Mobile Versions of Digg!

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Seems like everyone wants to mobilize Digg.com. I think Eugenia at mobits.com was the first with her Digg Mobile (review) which launched in August. A month later there were three more, review here. But it didn’t stop there, SociallyGiven.com has posted a piece titled 7 Versions of ‘Digg Mobile’ Compared which is a nice wrap up with screenshots of some of the current mobile Diggs – including five I hadn’t seen before.  The nicest of the new crop is Original … Continue reading →

Mobile NBC5.COM

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Chicago’s NBC5 TV station (WMAQ) has a new mobile web site at wap.nbc5.com. I’m pretty sure that the site design was done by the same hand as the KTVU2 San Francisco site I reviewed recently. Both are very nicely done mobile sites that support both WAP1 and WAP2 phones with appropriate markup and images resized to just the right size to fill the screen on most devices. Content emphasizes local news, weather (with a radar map) and sports. There are … Continue reading →