Tag Archives: mobile site review

Discovery Mobile is a Webby Winner

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Discovery Communications, which operates 28 cable TV networks including the Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Discovery Health Channel and Travel Channel recently launched this mobile portal which features selected content including news, videos and games from across the Discovery properties. The site also includes links to the various channel’s individual mobile sites and TV schedules. Discovery Mobile site, which was created by Crisp Wireless, won top honors in the Mobile Entertainment category at the 2009 Webby Awards. Filed in: Wap … Continue reading →

South Carolina and Darlington Raceway News and Videos

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SCnow.com is the combined web presence of a number of South Carolina news outlets including Myrtle Beach’s WBTW News13, the Florence Morning News, Hartsville Messenger, Marion Star, Mullins Enterprise, Lake City News & Post and The Weekly Observer. The mobile version of the site offers news, weather, sports and entertainment for the Grand Strand and Pee Dee areas of South Carolina. A unique feature of SCnow is a sub-site, darlingtonracing.mobi, with news, race information and videos from the legendary Darlington … Continue reading →

Delivr Update Simplifies Mobile Sharing

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I’ve been using Delivr.com since launched in December.  It’s so powerful and does so many things that it’s hard to summarize.  I covered it in depth here. One use of Delivr is as a mobile aware short URL service with one-click posting to many social networking and bookmarking sites. Supported services include  Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Google Bookmarks, Jaiku, Delicious, Digg, Reddit, Plaxo and Delivr’s own micro-blogging service. That’s not all though, using the same one click iterface, you can send … Continue reading →

F1-Live's New Mobile Site

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The 2009 Formula One season has gotten off to a surprising start with Jenson Button and the new Brawn team winning three of the first four races. An amazing turn around for Brawn, which is the ne’er-do-well Honda team with a new name and Mercedes engines. Also new this season is a major redesign of F1-Live.com‘s mobile web site at m.f1-live.com. F1-Live is part of the  Montpelier, France based Racing-Live.com group, which was acquired last year by ESPN. The redesign … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #61

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Found on the Mobile Web is an 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 1630 mobile sites. News Treehugger m.treehugger.com,  by Discovery Communications, is a leading news blog covering environmental issues, the “green” movement and sustainable living. Attractive site design is by Crisp Wireless. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory Content: Usability: Travel-Transit/Air Krakow Airport m.krakowairport.pl/en Scheludes,flight status, directory … Continue reading →

Mobile Fear of Flying Self Help Course

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Does getting on an airplane tie your stomach in knots? Is fear keeping you from traveling? Try this free self help program for anyone nervous about flying.  Airline Captain Stacey L. Chance has offered this course online since 2001 and recently made it available in a more mobile friendly format. The course is designed to help you quickly overcome anxiety and feel relaxed and confident on your flight.  Capt. Stacey covers the types of fear associated with flying including fear … Continue reading →

MIR Reborn? The Really Mobile Project and Mobile Developer TV Launch

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My favorite mobile blog for the last few years was SMS Text News (later renamed Mobile Industry Review, MIR for short) I thoroughly enjoyed Ewan MacLeod‘s brutally honest, scathing but hilarious put downs of  “rubbish, bullocks and fluking useless” mobile devices and services.  It got even better when Ewan added James Whatley, Ben Smith and  Dan Lane to the team and put them to work doing weekly long format video podcasts that were both entertaining and full of insights and … Continue reading →