Found On The Mobile Web #241

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 2343 mobile sites. MobileTech Web, Mobile Development www.blog.highub.com Shi Chuan is a mobile web developer and contributor to the HTML5 Boilerplate and Smartphone front-end Matrices projects. His blog covers mobile and web design and development topics and includes lots of tips and tutorials. … Continue reading

Found On The Mobile Web #230

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 2337 mobile sites. Tech StackMobile stackmobile.com A front-end to the StackExchange network of sites optimized for display on SmartPhones and web-enabled devices. StackExchange started with StackOverflow, a wiki-based user-driven help site for software developers that uses a system of voting and reputation to … Continue reading

Nabbit – What’s That Song?

Nabbit ( m.nabbit.co) is a new service that reminds me of mobile.yes.com. Both sites tell you what’s currently playing on almost any U.S.  radio station.  The key difference is that Nabbit has more features but requires free registration. Registration lets Nabbit remember your location and favorite stations. The downside is that you can’t just start using it right a way on your phone, you need to visit the Nabbit PC site to create an account and specify your preferred stations, … Continue reading

Salon.com’s New Mobile Site

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

Mobile Sites for SXSW Attendees and Followers

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

Found on the Mobile Web #50

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.com mobile site directory.  With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 1351 mobile sites. Credit to  Oh! Mobile Directory for discovering the majority of these sites. Travel-Transit/Transit Vancouver TransLink m.translink.ca Schedules for bus, train and ferry service operated by Vancouver, BC’s TransLink public transit agency.  The site also features the agency’s blog.  An iPhone … Continue reading