Category Archives: Site Reviews

MyMobileClips – YouTube, Google, DailyMotion and MetaCafe

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Here’s another mobile web site that lets you download videos from YouTube, Google Video, DailyMotion and MetaCafe to your phone. It’s called MyMobileClips and works a little differently than TinyTube which I reviewed a week ago. To use the mobile service you have to register at the MyMobileClips.com PC site. Don’t be put off by the fact that you seem to be registering for a phpBB Forum. There is a forum but that’s not the main purpose of the site. … Continue reading →

Thalys.mobi

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Thalys International, which provides high speed rail service between Brussels, Amsterdam, Cologne and Paris, now has a mobile site, thalys.mobi. The mobile edition offers schedule and fare lookups and contact numbers. The two main functions, Schedules and Fares are very similar and use a “wizard” interface. On the first screen you choose your start point from a drop down and click Next. A second screen prompts for destination station and for travel date and time which both default to current. … Continue reading →

Shralp! Cell Phone snowboard videos

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shralp.com is a one year old snowboarding video blog (vlog) site. Shralp releases a new video every Sunday. You can view the videos in your browser on the Shalp! PC site. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the videos. These are not your typical YouTube amateur videos. Production values are high and the images visually exciting. Shralp seems to “get” the potential of mobile video too. Right from the beginning, Shralp! has had a companion mobile web site … Continue reading →

FlightStats.com – International Flight Tracking

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FlightStats.com has a new mobile flight tracking service that covers international as well as domestic flights. According to their website FlightStats aggregates information from airlines, airports and government agencies around the world to provide the most complete possible flight status information. FlightStats seems to deliver what they claim, giving me estimated flight arrival information for en route flights in the US and Europe including domestic Russian flights. Data seems scarcer for some parts of the world. For flights within China … Continue reading →

TinyTube – Mobile video from YouTube

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TinyTube.net is an independent mobile site that hosts 3gp versions of a lot of the current content on YouTube. The videos are searchable, and grouped by: Recently Added, Favorites, Highest rated, Most viewed and Most Discussed just like on YouTube. This is not a streaming site, each video is downloadable in low, medium or high quality. All three qualities are 176×144 with varying degrees of compression and of course size – low quality averages 300KB, medium 700KB and High 6MB. … Continue reading →

Traffic.com Mobile

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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 →

Read your Local Paper on your Phone

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Local newspapers are struggling, print circulation is dropping as more people turn to the web for news. Traditional newspapers are looking for ways to survive. Many are turning to the mobile web as an additional publishing platform. This makes sense as a sizable percentage of commuters read the paper on the train or bus. On my own commute, everyone’s face used to be buried in the San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune or San Jose Mercury News. Now about a third … Continue reading →