Found On The Mobile Web #228

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 2319 mobile sites. Tech News Sites and Blogs Digg Mobile m.digg.com Digg has a new mobile interface. This one supplements rather than replaces Digg’s first mobile site, the bare bones Dig River. Unlike the River, which is a read only list of the … Continue reading

Found on the Mobile Web #220

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 2263 mobile sites. Comics GoComics www.gocomics.com Hundreds of popular newspaper comic strips including Doonesbury, Garfield and Calvin and Hobbs as well as editorial comics from Pat Oliphant, Dan Wasserman and others plus a large selection of comics en Español. Both current and previous … Continue reading

Twitter on the N900 – What Are My Options?

I’m not really a Twitter power user but I do follow a hundred or so people, tweet a few times a day and have two Twitter accounts.  My main account is @yeswap.  I also have a @boostapps account where I tweet whenever a new app gets added to my Boostapps.com app store for Boost Mobile prepaid users in the US.  I Twitdroid on Android, Gravity on Symbian and Tweete or Dabr in mobile browsers. So what should I use for … Continue reading

Tuitwit – Promising New Mobile Web Twitter Client

A reader sent me a link to a new Twitter mobile web client called Tuitwit. It was created from scratch by Indonesian developer Judotens Budiarto and is running on Google App Engine. It’s optimized for basic and mid range phones with a default page size of about 25 KB, including images and style sheet. Page size can be reduced to as little as 6 KB by turning off images on the Settings page. For a new release Tuitwit is remarkably … Continue reading

How To Use Taptu’s New Real-Time Search For iPhone/Android On Any Phone.

My favorite mobile search engine, Taptu, added a new option today – “real-time” search. So what is real time search and how is it different from plain old search? Google is pretty quick at updating its index. I typically find that my own posts show up in Google within about an hour and searches for specific breaking national or international news stories return something relevant in Google as soon as the story hits major news sites. But that’s not real-time … Continue reading

New Mobile Twitter Client Twittme Offers 240 Character Tweets

Twittme is a new mobile Twitter front end. That makes at least six now. What sets Twittme apart from the rest is that it allows creating Tweets longer than 140 characters. The “What are you doing” field in Twittme accepts up to 240 characters. Tweets longer than 140 are sent as two successive Tweets. Several desktop clients do this but Twittme is the first mobile web one I’ve seen that does. Tweetme is a feature rich client (see the table … Continue reading

FriendBinder – All Your friends in One Place

FriendBinder is a new service that which went public with its Beta earlier this month and seems to be generating quite a bit of buzz. FriendBinder aggregates updates from your Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Last.fm and Delicious.com friends into a single stream, allowing you to keep track of all your social networks in one place. You can view all your friends as a single stream or filter the feed to show only updates the ones you are most interested in … Continue reading

Delivr’s Impressive New Analytics Features

Delivr.com, a mobile aware URL sharing and shortening service and micro-blogging platform, has just released a major upgrade. Registered Deliver users can now see comprehensive and visually exciting analytics showing how, where and when their Delivr shares have been viewed. To see it in action: Visit Delivr.com, log in and click “Dashboard” link Click the graph icon to the right of a share that’s received some views to see  the percentage of  mobile vs desktop views and the number of  … Continue reading