Tag Archives: mobile site review

Delicious.com Goes Mobile

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Yahoo owned social bookmarking site delicious.com launched a mobile web version yesterday.  It’s at m.delicious.com.  The mobile site is a pretty basic read-only affair, it doesn’t even seem possible to add a bookmark using the mobile version.  What mobile Delicious does provide is a low bandwidth view of your bookmarks, inbox, tags, subscriptions, network and the top 10  URLs as defined by “Delicious Popular”.   You can browse your bookmarks by tag and search for a tag.  The site works well … Continue reading →

Google’s Mobile Tips

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Google has put up a web site “Mobile Countdown to the New Year“, which posts a new mobile tip every day through January 1st. The site is available in a full web version (google.com/mobile/tips) and also as a mobile website at google.com/mobile/m/tips/countdown. The tips demonstrate clever things that you can do with Google’s mobile services.  There have been six tips posted so far and all have involved Google’s mobile search, which is a good place to start.  Search on mobile … Continue reading →

MySpace Mobile Adds Video

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I just saw this on VentureBeat. MySpace has added video to their mobile site, m.myspace.com. Thanks to MySpace’s original association with bands and music, it has tens of thousands of videos, especially music videos. It makes sense to make them available on mobile. I took a look at the mobile video offering and it is live and it works but it’s very limiting and not particularly user friendly. To watch MySpace videos on your phone you have to jump through … Continue reading →

Snappr – Mobile Price Comparison

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Continuing with the holiday shopping theme I started yesterday, Snappr (snappr.mobi) is an online shopping search and price comparison site.  It’s the mobile variant of Snappr.net on the web. Snappr is new, both the .net and the .mobi launched this year. The mobile site opens to a simple search box where you can enter a product name or the number that appears under the UPC bar code found  on most products.  Snappr returns a list of products with price, a … Continue reading →

Mobile Web Bargain Hunting

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How’s your holiday shopping going? Spending more than you like?  Here are a couple of mobile web sites to help you find the best deals. CheapenGadget (cheapengadget.com) is a new site from MechaWorks, publisher of PhoneNews.com. It’s a blog style “Deal” site that’s updated several times a day with the best deals on consumer electronics, computers, mobile phones and accessories both on the web and in stores. Christopher Price and his team at MechaWorks did a great job of leaking … Continue reading →

People Magazines’s Mobile Site

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People Magazine is a US weekly print magazine that is a top seller on newsstands.  Owned by Time Inc., People is known for its celebrity coverage and human interest stories. People Magazine bids aggressively for interviews and exclusive rights to photos and has scored a number of scoops including the first photos of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s baby and Jenifer Lopez’ twins. The magazine has a popular website at people.com and recently  launched a mobile website, m.people.com.  The mobile … Continue reading →

mjoy – Free International SMS

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Here is a new service that promises to make sending and receiving text messages free, and that includes international texting. It’s called mjoy and is a product of German based, Venista Group. I tried the service and it works and is free, although there are some limitations. Your SMS are free because they are sent from a mobile (or PC) web interface. So they are only “free” if you have an unlimited data plan or stay within the limits of … Continue reading →

Soccer Laduma – A Rich Mobile Experience

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Soccer Laduma (soccerladuma.mobi) is yet another new African based mobile website.  It’s the mobile web edition of a weekly newspaper that’s the country’s largest soccer publication.  South Africa has  twice as many people using the mobile web as the fixed web so it’s no surprise that Soccer Laduma’s four month old mobile site gets more traffic than its fixed web counterpart. The site is very rich in features yet is easy to navigate.  The front page is simple and fast … Continue reading →