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Foursquare Competitor Gowalla’s Location Aware Mobile WebApp

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Gowalla is a location based social networking “game” that is very similar to the better known Foursquare. But it’s not a copy or clone. The two services were created independently and both were launched essentially simultaneously at SXSW last year. Gowalla players compete for “Pins”, the equivalent or Foursquare’s badges, by checking in at physical locations around their neighborhood, city and the world. Gowalla has always allowed checkins anywhere, unlike Foursquare which was restricted to 100 major cities until recently. … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #199

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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 2118 mobile sites. Travel-Transit/Transit BC Ferries: mobile.bcferries.com A very slick site from BC Ferries, which provides vehicle and passenger ferry service between the mainland, Vancouver Island and other islands in British Columbia’s Gulf of Georgia. It features comprehensive schedules, dockside webcams, vessel tracking … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #198

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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 2105 mobile sites. Entertainment TheUrbanTwist m.theurbantwist.com Enterainment blog featuring music, videos, news, and opinions with a youthful, urban slant. Mobile View by Mobify. Content: Usability: Travel-Transit/Transit Twin Cities Transit tctransit.mobi Interactive bus schedules for The Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota). Looks like an … Continue reading →

Nokia Conversations Uses Mippin To Mobilize!

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Nokia Conversations which calls itself, “The Official Nokia Blog” is one of the handset maker’s primary ways of interacting with users. It’s really more of a tech news site than a typical dry corporate blog. Conversations is about firmware updates, game and app reviews and coverage of Nokia in the news. In keeping with the blog’s name it’s a two way communication channel, reader comments are actively encouraged. Nokia doesn’t appear to censor negative comments either as it’s very easy … Continue reading →

OpenMBTA’s Boston Transit Schedule iPhone App Now On Mobile Web

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OpenMBTA is a project by developer Daniel Choi and other volunteers whose goal is to promote the use of public transportation by providing free open source transit apps for Boston area residents and travelers. Their first project was a slick location aware iPhone app combining the MTBA’s GTFS schedule data with Google maps to create interactactive map-based schedules for Boston’s bus, rail and ferry transit services. Last month, OpenMBTA launched a  mobile web version of the app at openmbta.org/mobile. The … Continue reading →

Mobify Lands Boing Boing

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Boing Boing, the hugely popular blog covering entertainment, technology, gadgets, politics, fair use and all manner of weird things, has gone mobile. Virtually all of Boing Boing’s content, including videos and blog comments, is available in the site’s mobile view at m.boingboing.net, which mobile browsers now see by default. There is a link to the full site on the mobile pages for those who prefer desktop formatting on their phones. The new mobile presence is the work of Vancouver based … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #197

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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 2094 mobile sites. Search/Local Subway subwayfreshbuzz.mobi Register to receive special offers by text on the mobile website of US nationwide sandwich shop chain Subway. The site also has menus and a restaurant locator. Excessively large images slow page loads on basic phones. Source … Continue reading →

GotMercury.mobi – How Much Seafood is Too Much?

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All seafood contains mercury. Some is naturally occurring but about half of the mercury in the environment is the result of burning coal and natural gas, gold mining, smelting and cement production. Eating fish high in mercury can be harmful to health, particularly for pregnant women, nursing mothers, women who might become pregnant, and children. The US EPA and FDA have published guidelines for safe levels of consumption. This mobile friendly calculator from the Sea Turtle Restoration Project helps you … Continue reading →