Category Archives: Site Reviews

Real-Time Transit Information

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In Japan, where the mobile web is much more widely used than in the US and Europe, real-time transit tracking is a very popular web based mobile application. If you use public transit it’s easy to see why. I’m sure you have had the experience of waiting and waiting for a bus and wondering if it will even come. Mobile access to real-time transit arrival and departure information has actually been possible in some US cities for several years. Recently, … Continue reading →

Cycling Live

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I’m a big cycling fan. In addition to recreational cycling and commuting by bicycle, I like to follow big-time professional cycling. I’m really thrilled that the Amgen Tour of California is starting from my home town of San Francisco next Sunday. This is a new event on the cycling calendar, a 700 mile, 8 day stage race from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Many of the world’s top teams and riders are expected to participate including George Hincapie, Levi Leipheimer, … Continue reading →

More Olympics

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I’ve added four more Winter Olympics mobile web pages to the new Sports/Winter Olympics page on the YesWap Portal. Check them out from yeswap.com on your phone. BBC As always, the BBC provides excellent coverage. The WAP1 (wml) site provides a good collection of stories and features illustrated with small 66 px wide gif images. The html site as more stories and the pictures larger (up to 203 px), higher quality .jpeg’s. A Pictures section (html only) has even larger … Continue reading →

Winter Olympics

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Matt Croydon at PostNeo 2.0 has found NBC’s Winter Olympics mobile site. Thanks Matt. My take is that NBC’s site is quite attractive with photos for each story. Phones seem to get 128 px wide images while PDA’s get 320 px ones. The site supports both WAP1 and WAP2 on separate URLs. Content (including .jpeg photos is the same on both WAP flavors). There are about six stories covering today’s events, athlete interviews and prognostication on the likely outcome of … Continue reading →

Southwest Airlines

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Back when I wrote a four part post on Mobile Transcoding Services I used the Southwest Airlines web page as one of the sites to test transcoding services. At that time Southwest was the only major US airline that did not have a mobile web site. Southwest has finally noticed the growing demand for mobile travel information. Their site is rather basic at this point with only a single function, Online Check-in. This is a very usefully and important feature … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists 14

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The latest Carnival is posted at Daniel Taylor’s Mobile Enterprise Weblog. The Carnival is held every Friday at a different Mobilist’s blog. Each host selects the best submitted posts of the past week. David has done a great job of assembling some fine posts on the various aspects of the thing we call mobile. Not only does the Carnival bring together some of the best writing in the field, but each week I discover interesting Carnival posts from blogs I’ve … Continue reading →