Validation is Your Friend

Posted on October 24, 2006 by Dennis Bournique

It constantly amazes me that so many mobile web sites fail validation. And it’s not just new sites, even some of the biggest names in the industry have mobile pages that have been failing for years when validated by the W3C’s online validator. Probably a third of all the sites I look at don’t validate. The most common problems are: “Naked” ampersands in text and URLs (XML based markup requires that all ampersands be represented by the appropriate html entity). … Continue reading →

The World Series on Your Phone

Posted on October 21, 2006 by Dennis Bournique

The “World Series”, or US professional baseball championships begins tomorrow with game 1 of the best of seven series between the National League’s St Louis Cardinals and the American League’s Detroit Tigers starting at 7:30 PM Eastern Time. There is some great coverage of the games on the mobile web. If you can’t be near a radio or TV you can still follow the games play by play and pitch by pitch with the mobile web on your phone. ESPN … Continue reading →

Treemo

Posted on October 19, 2006 by Dennis Bournique

Treemo is a new social content sharing site which combines most of the features of YouTube and Flickr with a strong mobile web presence. Treemo allows users to upload and share video, audio, text and images. The site’s free account has much more generous upload and storage limits than Flickr’s. Treemo allows uploading 200 MB per month, ten times as much as Flickr. In addition Flickr limits free accounts to displaying only the 200 most recent images. Treemo doesn’t limit … Continue reading →

Sensis Search

Posted on October 15, 2006 by Dennis Bournique

Update: wap.sensis.com.au is giving me 403 (Forbidden) errors, however mobile.sensis.com.au seems to working with the same content. I’ve changed the urls in this article to the mobile… variant. Sensis is one of the many brands belonging to Australian fixed and mobile telecommunications and Internet giant Telstra (Wikipedia). The Sensis brand is used for Yellow and White pages directories both online and mobile and for an online web search engine, www.sensis.com.au – “The search engine for Australians”. Sensis search’s default behavior … Continue reading →

New Mobile Search Engines

Posted on October 14, 2006 by Dennis Bournique

Ask.com and Telestra, Australia’s largest mobile operator, both launched new mobile search portals this week. Ask’s offering features a web search that searches the full web using Ask’s own search engine. The results are transcoded for mobile usability by a white label version of Skweezer (review). It works well most of time, but for some reason, Ask’s transcoded pages don’t have the message and link ” Page optimized for mobile device, click here to view without Skweezer. ” that appears … Continue reading →

Mob5

Posted on October 10, 2006 by Dennis Bournique

Mob5 isn’t really a pure Mobile Social Software (MoSoSo) site although it bears some similarities to one. I’d call it a forms driven mobile site builder and free mobile hosting service. It lets you build a site to share your writing and photos. There’s a comment form that you can add as a “wall” or shout-box were anyone can leave (and read) comments. Mob5 is good for building a site where your friends can look at your photos or writing … Continue reading →

MocoSpace

Posted on October 8, 2006 by Dennis Bournique

I’m already tried of the phrase “Web 2.0”. It’s time for a new buzzword. Still, the big paradigm shift of Web 2.0 and one that’s here to stay is the idea that users and especially communities of users are what gives the web value. That can mean sharing of user generated content such as photos (Flickr), writing (Yelp, blogs), or the collective wisdom of what’s click-worthy (del.icio.us, Digg, YouTube). All these sites also accept comments which is a starting point … Continue reading →

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