Tag Archives: mobile site review

Dataopedia’s Mobile Formatted Web Traffic Statistics

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If you are at all interested web traffic statistics, or just want to see how your site is doing take a look at Dataopedia. The site combines data, including charts and graphs, from Alexa, Quantcast, Compete, Google, Digg, Delicious, registrar records and other sources into to a single page packed with site metrics. It doesn’t really tap into mobile traffic data sources and doesn’t read .mobi registrar records so its more useful for analyzing desktop websites than mobile ones. The … Continue reading →

The Washington Post’s New, Much Improved Mobile Site

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The Washington Post is widely regarded as one of the two best US newspapers, the other being the New York Times. Compared with the Times, the Post has been slow to develop its web and especially its mobile web presence. Last week the paper took a step to improve its mobile web offering with a complete redesign of mobile.washingtonpost.com The revamped and expanded site was develeoped with the help of  Norway’s MobileTech. It uses browser detection and adaptation to vary … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web 174

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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 1825 mobile sites. Technology Smooth-On. smoothon.mobify.me Smooth-On makes a sells a wide variety of materials and tools for many types of mold making and casting. The firm’s web and mobile sites offer an array of FAQs, tutorials and videos of interest to both … Continue reading →

Traffic.com Updated – New Maps, Easier Navigation

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Navteq has updated their free mobile traffic site, mobi.traffic.com. The major changes since I last looked at the site are the ability to search for your city by zip code and maps! Traffic.com covers over 50 U.S. metropolitan areas and lets you pick yours from a drop down list. That can be a tedious process on some basic phones that only let you slowly scroll the list one line at a time. The addition of a zip code field makes … Continue reading →

Pocket Southwold

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Guide to Southwold, a town on the England’s Suffolk coast that is noted for its natural beauty and historic structures including the 15th Century Church of St Edmund, historic pier, harbor, lighthouse and brewery. The attractive, image heavy Pocket Southwold site appears to have been designed for the iPhone but also works well with other mobile browsers that are able to handle its 100 KB pages including the Nokia Webkit browser, Opera Mini and even the “Services” browser on recent … Continue reading →

Read Roland Tanglao’s 10 Part N97 Review On Your Phone

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Roland Tanglao has been blogging since 1999 and has over 60,000 photos on Flickr. He’s based in Vancouver and is one of the founders of the Drupal hosting service, Bryght. He is now with another startup, CrowdTrust. Roland often blogs about mobile. He recently published an exhaustive “stream of consciousness” 10 part review of the Nokia N97 based on his experiences using a review unit as his main phone for 11 days. Although Roland reports a litany of bugs and … Continue reading →

Updated: Easy Mobile Web Based Contact Sharing

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Mobile Share seems like a  simple but potentially handy new service. It lets you create a personal online contact page, a simple mobile formatted web page containing your name and phone number. A link on the page lets you share it by sending the URL in a text message. Another link lets the recipient add your name and number to their phone’s contacts with a single click.  I see this as an alternative to sharing a contacts with Bluetooth. I’d  … Continue reading →

m.DrJukka.com – Download Y-Browser, Y-Tasks and More

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Dr. Jukka Silvennoinen, aka DrJukka, is a prolific developer of free Symbian smartphone applications for S60 3rd and 5th edition phones. His best known apps are Y-Browser, a powerful file manager and Y-Tasks, a great collection of system utilities that includes a task manager, file association editor, crash monitor and a font viewer/manager. I’ve found both of these programs indispensable on my N95. Neither of them are available in the Ovi Store, unfortunately. You can download Y-Browser and Y-Tasks and … Continue reading →