The NASCAR season is almost over but I just found these sites and wanted to share the discovery. NASCAR is the most popular US auto racing series. To European (and many American) motorsports fans it’s a bit weird. Billed as stock car racing, the cars are anything but stock. They look like typical US 2 door mid size cars from a distance but really consist of a handmade tubular chassis, with a full roll cage to protect the drivers, covered … 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
The NBA (National Basketball Association) season started Nov 1st. NBA.com has a mobile site at nba.mobi that lets you follow the games on the mobile web. It’s an OK site but I was hoping for a little more. NBA.com Mobile has league news, scores, schedules and statistics. The news items are mostly post-game wrap ups and are pretty short – just a sentence or two. The scores page lists all of today’s games with current scores, quarter and minutes to … Continue reading
Slate (mobile.slate.com) is an online news and lifestyle magazine originally owned by Microsoft but now the property of the Washington Post. Slate is quite similar to Salon.com in it’s style and the type of articles it features. The mobile edition contains selected articles, features and columns from the full site . Although not the full Slate, the mobile version has quite a bit of content. There are 20 articles from today’s coverage plus about the same number for each of … Continue reading
NBC Sports (mobile.nbcsports.com) “Sports” is kind of a misnomer for this site. As of this writing in October, 2006 NBC Sports Mobile is covering only one sport – NFL Football. Last week’s baseball World Series was never mentioned on NBC Sports Mobile! Not that it’s a bad football site – for pigskin fans the site is interesting with lots of game photos, scores, player stats, week by week schedules, game recaps, injury lists and news and features about notable players. … Continue reading
Mobileplay is a free ad supported mobile portal that offers some content that is not available anywhere else. Probably the best reason to visit Mobileplay is Salon.com. While it’s true that Salon has it’s own mobile site which I reviewed a while back that site is limited to just excerpts from a handful of stories. Salon on Mobileplay has the full content of over 100 current Salon articles. Other Mobileplay exclusives include AP News, Wired, TechnologyGuide.com, DigitalCameraReview.com, Flavorpill, About.com and … Continue reading
The Daily Front Row (dfr.mlogic3g.com) is a print fashion magazine published in conjunction with and distributed at major fashion shows. I couldn’t find an online edition other than the mobile one. This is the first time that I’ve seen a print publisher go straight to the mobile web. I’d read more into this but for the fact that the Daily Front Row mobile site is apparently a Cingular promotion targeting attendees at last week’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Los Angeles. … Continue reading
Fandango (mobile.fandango.com) has launched a mobile web site. As every moviegoer in the US knows, Fandango is a web business selling movie tickets. They are best known for the goofy ads featuring a frumpy couple played by hand puppets made from paper bags that participating theatres show before every movie. To use the web version of Fandango, you pay by credit card and print out your ticket. The site also lets you search for movie theatre show times, read reviews … Continue reading