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Taptu’s New Mobile Directory – Not Just For Touchscreens

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Mobile search company Taptu has taken the wraps off their latest project.  Billed as “The World’s largest Directory of Web Apps & Touch Friendly Sites For Owners of Mass Market Touch Screen Mobiles“, it’s modeled after the iPhone App Store  with mobile web apps and sites organized into categories like News & Weather, Music, Sport, Entertainment, Social and Technology.  The directory is searchable and features rotating galleries of  “Top Sites” and “New Sites”. You can reach the Taptu directoy by … Continue reading →

Taptu: Mobile Web Growing Twice as Fast as Expected, Outstrips iPhone Appstore.

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Image: Taptu Mobile search company Taptu released the fourth in a series of “State of the Touch Friendly Web” reports today.  The reports track mobile web trends and showcase over 100 new Mobile Touch Web sites each month. In the latest report (PDF) Taptu compares the size and growth rate of its Mobile Touch Web index with that of the iPhone and Android appstores.   By Taptu’s count there are currently: 440,100 Mobile Touch Web Sites 185,000 apps in the iPhone … Continue reading →

Parent’s Choice – A Cross Platform Touch Web Site

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Taptu released the second edition of their monthly  Touch Web Report today. Taptu defines the Touch Web as consisting of sites that are optimized for touch screen phones, including touch screen feature phones, rather than for a specific device like the iPhone. To date Taptu has found 326,000 touch web sites. In comparison there are only about 148,000 apps in the iPhone app store.  Because it’s not limited to a single device or subject to arbitratry approval processes, the Touch … Continue reading →