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The Times’ New Mobile Going Out Guide

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The venerable (founded 1785) U.K. daily  The Times, has a rather nice mobile site at timesmobile.mobi.  The attractive and content rich site features articles from the paper’s News, Business, Sport, Tech & Web, Entertainment, Weather, Markets and Jobs sections. But that’s not all, earlier this month The Times launched a new feature,  the  Going Out Guide. It’s a location based directory of nearby events, movies and watering holes. The guide looks useful with a large database of establishments, reviews and … Continue reading →

Salon.com’s New Mobile Site

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Salon.com is a long running (since 1995) and popular online magazine.  It covers music, books, music, technology, trends, sports and politics with lengthy, well-written articles. Mobile is nothing new to Salon which launched an Avantgo “feed” in 2001 that’s also available on the open mobile web at http://www.salon.com/partner/avantgo/.  That text-only site is still active, unchanged in format in eight years. It  carries a selection of about ten recent articles from Salon.  It’s an interesting read but probably a bit limiting … Continue reading →

Ubi – Michelin Guides for Mobile

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Ubi is a mobile front end to the prestigious, especially in Europe, Michelin Guides.  The mobile site  at ubiubi.mobi covers most  U.S. metropolitan areas and lets you search for restaurants by keyword and location. Results, which seem to be limited to places listed in the Michelin guidebooks, include address, click to call phone numbers and maps.  There are links to the Michelin reviews but registration is required to view them.  Basic registration is free but limits you to viewing just … Continue reading →

Superpages Mobile – Cool Features, Quirky UI

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Superpages.com, which was primarily an U.S.only online phone directory has expanded their mobile offering into a full blown local search engine.  The site, which is owned by Verizon spinoff Idearc Media now provides business search by name or category, maps, driving directions, WiFi hotspot search, weather forecasts, movie reviews and show times in addition to phone number look up by name and location and a reverse phone number directory. It’s still U.S. only, however. The site gets the job done … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #55

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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 1498 mobile sites. Sports GO211 m.go211.com Skateboard, Snowboard, Surfing and BMX news, videos, blogs and event calendar.  Slick looking site but page size of over 80 KB maybe a problem for feature phone browsers Content: Usability: Sports/NFL Colts Mobile www.colts.com/mobile/ Fan site for … Continue reading →

Redesigned Zedge Mobile Is Not “Dumbed Down”

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It’s been a while since I’ve looked at Zedge.net, the huge (13 million users, Alexa rank 492)  mobile content sharing network.   Owned by IDT, Zedge is primarily a place where users can upload content (ringtones, themes, wallpapers and videos) for sharing and transfer to their phones. A big part of Zedge is content creation. The site has easy to use online tools for making and modifying ringtones, themes, wallpapers and screensavers and the busy Zedge support forums help new users … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web #54

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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 1468 mobile sites. Business/Banking and Payments/US Regional Banks Sharefax CU Cincinnati OH sharefax.mobi This mobile site for Cincinnati OH based Sharefax Credit Union offers click to call phone numbers and an ATM and branch locator with Google maps and driving directions for each … Continue reading →

Mobile Sites for SXSW Attendees and Followers

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The big South By Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSW) in Austin, Texas starts today. SWSW Interactive  is devoted to cutting edge technology in web and mobile. It occurs concurrently with the SXSW Film Conference and Festival March 13  through 17.  The SXSW Music and Media Conference  follows March 18 – 22. If you are at SXSW or just want to follow along with the festivities here are some mobile resources to keep you updated. The official SXSW.mobi site has news, complete … Continue reading →