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Wheretraveler – Free U.S. Mobile Travel Guides

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The publisher of the Insider’s Guide series of travel books offers an alternative to bulky printed travel guides at WhereTraveler ( wheretraveler.com/m).  The site has mobile web based  guides to major US cities plus London and Paris. Guides list recommended Shops, Attractions, Tours, Transportation, Museums, Galleries, Neighborhoods, Spas, Salons, Theaters and Night Spots with descriptions, price range, address and click to call phone numbers.  There’s a translation feature that will machine translate listings to 21 different languages. There’s also an … Continue reading →

Glocut – A Mobile Location Mashup With Great Usability

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Glocut is one of the nicest local search web apps I’ve seen yet. What sets it apart from all the others is its deceptively simple but effective user interface. When you launch Glocut the first time you will need to enter your location. It’s not very fussy about  formatting; a full street address, city, country, postal code or a landmark like “Times Square”; they all work . It gets even better, Glocut has a tiny Java or Windows Mobile native … Continue reading →

MobileRead – For Mobile eBook Fans

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MobileRead, a very active blog and forum dedicated to finding and using eBook and Web content on mobile devices has a new mobile website at mobileread.mobi. The mobile edition has practically the entire content of the full version of MobileRead. You will find lots of good items about eBook readers, formats and sources of eBooks. Also tips on how to convert books to different mobile formats and getting the most from handheld devices. The focus is on dedicated book reading … Continue reading →

Lurvely – Discover Spectacular Photography on Flickr

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Lurvely ( www.lurvely.com)  is a new iPhone web app and mobile site built on the Flickr API. Lurvely is designed  to find the most beautiful and artistic photos on Flickr. If you log into Lurvely with your Flickr credentials you can  “Lurve” a photo which is the equivalent of Flickr’s favoriting. Photos on the front page come from Flickr’s Interestingness stream. Other pages show the  most Lurved photos by the most Lurved photographers. It really does work, the  photos on … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web 53

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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 1430 mobile sites. Search/Local/City Guides Minneapolis St Paul Mag mspmag.mobi Restaurant guide, restaurant reviews, shops guide, arts and entertainment calendar, nightlife and bars guide for Minneapolis St Paul, Minnesota. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory Content: Usability: Travel-Transit CN Traveler Tipping Guide m.cnt.acumob.com Conde Nast … Continue reading →

Afrigator – Mobile Memetracker for African Blogs

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Afrigator is a memetracker that collects and links to posts in English by African bloggers. The tabbed front page is divided  into seven topic categories; Life, Entertainment, Business, Tech, Politics, Religion and Sport with a default tab that lists the newest and most popular posts from all categories. I’m pretty impressed with depth and breath of writing found on Africator. One could pretty much keep up with what’s happing in the world and in tech solely by reading African bloggers! … Continue reading →

AirWX – Free Mobile Tools For Pilots

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AirWX Mobile ( m.airwx.com) is a free mobile site that gives U.S. pilots instant access to weather and other aviation related data on their mobile phones. Services include current and forecast weather maps, pilot reports (PIREP), distance between US airports, airport maps and information, listings of Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs), conversions between miles/knots and °F/ °C and flight tracking by tail number number. A similar site  is  Aeroplanner at  aeroplanner.com/mobile (free registration at aeroplanner.com required). Source Oh! Mobile Directory Filed … Continue reading →

Mobile Web News Site Tries a Paywall

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Bloomington, Indiana is a college town with a population of about 70,000.  The Bloomington Herald Times is local daily and its mobile web site,  htonl.mobi is unusual in that it’s one of the few mobile newspaper sites I’ve seen that has a paywall.  Like the Herald Times’ full site, the mobile one requires a $5.95/month subscription to view all the content.  There is some free content on the site including  the weather forecast, classifieds, events calendar, movie show times, wining … Continue reading →