In one of the posts featured in last week’s Carnival of the Mobilists, Justin Oberman at mopocket did a nice write up of an ambitious new mobile site from mPulse called WapTags that combines personal homepages, a mobile rss aggregator, social tagging, chat, SMS and classified adds. Justin did a fine job of explaining WapTags so I won’t repeat what he said. If you haven’t used WapTags, go read Justin’s piece and give it a try. I’ve added it to … Continue reading
While I was traveling the last couple of weeks, one of the tools I used to keep up with my email was the mobile version of Mail2Web.com. Mail2Web is a well established (the web version has been around for almost ten years) service with an excellent privacy policy that lets you retrieve POP3 or IMAP mail from any server using a Web, PDA or WAP1 wml interface. Mail2Web even works with services like Gmail which require a secure login. I … Continue reading
If your wondering about the dearth of posts lately, I’ve been traveling with almost no access to the net other than through my phone. I probably should have tried to do a mobile post or two, using mobile web based e-mail and WordPress’ e-mail to post feature. Unfortunately, I never got around to setting up and testing the special post by e-mail address before I left. What I did do while on vacation was attempt to manage all my e-mail … Continue reading
Yahoo has launched a mobile mail beta. When I logged into Yahoo Mail using Opera Mini there was a Try New Mobile Beta link at the top of the start page. Naturally, I checked it out immediately. Yahoo Mobile Mail has always had a simple appearance, almost entirely text with the only color being a small logo at the top and beige bar at the bottom of the page. The beta is almost as simple but looks less sparse with … Continue reading
I received an email yesterday from a gentleman named Eduardo Casais asking me to take a look his company’s mobile World Cup site. The company is called Areppim AG and appears to be a web design firm in Bern, Switzerland. I’m rather impressed by the site and wanted to get this post up before tomorrow’s Germany – Italy match. Areppim has come up with an unusual and interesting concept and an excellent mobile site from the standpoint of usability and … Continue reading
For the last three years I’ve been hosting a page which has links to mobile transcoded versions of Velonews.com‘s live coverage of major cycling events like the Tour de France. While I was following today’s stage transcoded by Skweezer on my phone I saw this : “By the way, if you’re going to be away from you computer and still want to check in on the live action you can point your mobile device browser to our mobile live window … Continue reading
Update 6/30/2006: Those of you that are cycling fans already know this, but less than 3 hours after I wrote the words below this year’s Tour de France started to unravel. A doping scandal that had been simmering in Spain for months exploded with 58 professional cyclists under investigation. Among the implicated riders are nine would-be participants in this years Tour including last year’s second, third and fourth place finishers Ivan Basso, Jan Ulrich and Francisco Mancebo. All of the … Continue reading
To me at least, public transit and the mobile web could make a very enabling combination. When I’m out on the streets and want to get somewhere, I’d love to be able pull out my phone and bring up a little map showing the route from my current location to a nearby bus or subway stop along with step by step directions on how to get to where I want to go on the transit system – including any transfers … Continue reading