Tag Archives: local search

Found On the Mobile Web 254

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BBC Beta

Found on the Mobile Web is a regular WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2310 mobile sites. News/International/Europe BBC Beta m.bbc.co.uk/news The BBC’s new site for mobile devices. Built with mobile first responsive design techniques, it’s designed to adapt to a range of devices from feature phones with 240px wide screens and no JavaScript support up to seven inch … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #251

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Move the Web Forward

Found on the Mobile Web is a regular WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2361 mobile sites. Tech/Internet/Web Design & Development Move the Web Forward movethewebforward.org A “Responsive Web Design” promoting web developer community involvement in open standards. Links to web design and development resources and places where you can contribute to creating and promoting open standards. Content: … Continue reading →

GeoFanPage – Facebook Driven Local Search

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GeoFanPages

Coded in 24 hours at the Muther of all Hackathons in Silicon Valley this mobile web app finds nearby businesses by searching Facebook Fan Pages.  It won its co-creators a pair MacBook Airs as the best mashup using fitml.com‘s cross-platform mobile web platform. Clicking a search result displays the businesses address, click to call phone number and a mobile formatted view of their Facebook Wall and Twitter timeline The cross platform app works only in browsers with geolocation support, there’s no … Continue reading →

Hands On With Bolt Browser’s xAD Local Search

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xAD Sushi Results

Bolt browser recently started returning results for local searches from mobile local search and advertising company xAD. According to xAD the partnership will give users more relevant results and added features like reviews, offers, maps and directions. Currently live in the US only, xAD results will soon start appearing for Bolt users in Germany, U.K. and France. I gave xAD a try with a few local search queries.  Results were generally pretty good. For most queries xAD returned results that were as … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #232

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Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2356 mobile sites. Movies IMDb m.imdb.com Finally! IMDb: The biggest and best movie and TV site has its own mobile version. Full text search of the iMDb database. Listings include star rating, plot summary, critic and user reviews, trailers, photos, full cast list … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #231

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Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2346 mobile sites. Literature New Yorker iphone.newyorker.com Fans of the New Yorker magazine’s unique blend of short stories, poetry, reviews, cultural and political commentary will enjoy this new “iPhone” edition of The New Yorker. It has full versions of dozens of stories from … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #208

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Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 2195 mobile sites. Search/Local Papa John’s Pizza UK mobile.papajohns.co.uk Online ordering service and store locator for Papa John’s locations in the UK. On the iPhone and other devices  with HTML5 location provider support the web app uses it suggest nearby locations. Source: Mobile … Continue reading →

Urbanspoon – Mobile Webapp Version Of An iPhone App Hit

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Urbanspoon is one of the success stories of the iPhone appstore phenomenon. The self-funded three man start-up began as a web based, crowd sourced guide to dinning out in  major metropolitan areas in the US and Canada.  Urbanspoon  launched a location aware iPhone app shortly after Apple opened the platform to third party developers in 2008. The app quickly became one of the 10 most downloaded apps on iTunes. Then Urbanspoon really hit it big after Apple featured it in … Continue reading →