Category Archives: Site Reviews

JuiceCaster

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JuiceCaster is a “social broadcasting” service. It’s an embeddable player you can add to your Facebook, MySpace or Friendster page or to a blog. When you send photos or videos to JuiceCaster by MMS, email or by using a JuiceCaster application they appear in the player on your web page. Content you upload can be flagged as public, private or shared with selected friends. JuiceCaster is free to use except for the mobile application, which is a BREW executable currently … Continue reading →

eBooks in Your Phone

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Mobile eBooks are getting some attention this week with Amazon’s launch of the Kindle, a $399 eBook reader whose selling point is that wirelessly downloads books. I haven’t tried or seen the Kindle but other than the wireless connection it doesn’t seem much different than other dedicated eBook readers like Ebookwise and the Sony Reader. These reading devices are niche products with a core of loyal users but nothing like mass adoption. I expect the Kindle too will sell in … Continue reading →

Mogoso – Search with a Split Personality

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Mogoso (mogoso.com) is a search site that simultaneously searches Yelp for stores and restaurants and also does an Amazon shopping search. The results link to reviews Amazon or Yelp reviews. It’s a strange combination, while Amazon will sell you almost anything and you can review anything on Yelp, those sites specialize in books and restaurants respectively. I suppose I might want to simultaneously search for sushi bars and sushi cookbooks it doesn’t seem very likely. Grumbling aside, I do find … Continue reading →

vTap – Mobile Video Search

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vTap is another of the many sites offering streaming video for mobile phones. vTap launched in September as a downloadable application for Windows Mobile devices which is still available. Then came an Ajax powered iPhone version. I don’t have an iPhone, but if you do try vTap.com. The iPhone version has some neat features like predictive text search where the site completes words as you type and RSS news feeds that spontaneously appear to help you pass the time while … Continue reading →

Heysan – Mobile IM

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Heysan (heysan.com, mobile m.heysan.com) was another of the startups which demoed at the Mobile 2.0 Event. It’s a mobile web based IM client supporting AIM, MSN and ICQ – with support for GTalk and Yahoo IM “coming soon”. Features include the ability to use multiple services simultaneously, a single buddy list across all services, threaded conversation view and auto refresh. I’m not really much of an IM user but I wanted to get a feel for this service so I … Continue reading →

Mippin

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One of the presenters at last week’s Mobile 2.0 Event was Mippin. It’s hard to tell much about a service from a five minute presentation and Mippin’s left me pretty unclear on what it actually was. I’ve had time to play with Mippin so here’s my take. Mippin is a mobile portal built from RSS feeds. In itself that’s not new, Feed2Mobile. Mowser, FeedM8 and Winksite all offer directories of mobile formated feeds. They all have their own mix of … Continue reading →

Mobile 2.0 Event

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Photo – Daniel Appelquist I spent yesterday at the Mobile 2.0 Event here in San Francisco. It was nice to meet so many of my readers and fellow mobile bloggers. This is a world class event and a real bargain. I don’t think there’s any other conference were you will find so many of the movers and shakers of the mobile world gathered in such a relatively intimate setting. It was fast paced and went very smoothly, hat tip to … Continue reading →

Read Gawker, Lifehacker or Valleywag on Your Phone

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Gawker is a hugely popular New York City gossip blog. Based on it’s success, founder Nick Denton has built a blog network called Gawker Media which includes some of the net’s most destinations like Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Valleyway, Wonkette and Defamer. There are 14 Gawker Media sites in all (list from Wikipedia): Gawker – New York City gossip Gizmodo – Tech Gadgets and technology Lifehacker – Personal productivity Valleywag – Silicon Valley gossip Fleshbot – Sex and pornography Wonkette – Politics … Continue reading →