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Found On The Mobile Web 253

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Found on the Mobile Web is a regular 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 2317 mobile sites. Tech/Internet/Web Design & Development onderhond onderhond.com Web front-end developer Niels Matthijs’ personal and professional blog has articles on web design plus movie reviews and a gallery on Niels’ travel photos. He recently redesigned the site using responsive design principles so that … Continue reading →

Found On the Mobile Web #239

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Toronto TC

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 2321 mobile sites. Transit Toronto TC m.ttc.ca The Toronto Transit Commission’s official site has bus, subway and streetcar schedules, a transit trip planner, fare and pass information and PDF! maps. Content: Usability: Toronto Next Streetcar nextstreetcar.ca Built on open transit data from the … Continue reading →

POLITICO – Top US Politics Site’s Mobile Editions

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POLITICO is a three year old politics focused daily newspaper distributed for free in Washington D.C. It’s widely read by politicians, lobbyists and other D.C. insiders. The paper’s website, Politico.com has significant national readership with an Alexa US traffic ranking of 287. The mobile version of Politico is at mobile.Politico.com (first image). It was launched shortly after the PC one in December, 2007. Mobile devices visiting Politico.com are not automatically redirected to the mobile version. But iPhones (and only iPhones) visiting … Continue reading →

FactCheck.org’s Mobile Site Debunks Politician’s False Claims

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FactCheck.org is a non-partisan, non-profit project from the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. It researches and debunks false claims made by U.S. politicians and political action groups in campaign materials, speeches and in promoting legislation. FactCheck has played a significant role in recent U.S.elections. In the 2008 presential campaign Factcheck.org flagged multiple falsehoods by both candidates, including Obama’s statement that McCain’s Social Security proposal would cut retiree benefits by 50% and McCain’s claim that Obama lied … Continue reading →

Smart Mobs On the Mobile Web

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Smart Mobs is an active and popular Web site covering  technology, especially mobile and the Internet, and its relation to society, culture and politics.  The emphasis is on using tech for social good and political action.  The site has a big following among web and mobile people. Smart Mobs‘ editor and a major contributor is Howard Rheingold, an author and researcher who  has been studying technology and its effects on thought and human  interaction since the 1980’s. Among his many … 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 →