{"id":2944,"date":"2009-02-15T17:28:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T01:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:15:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T21:15:29","slug":"found-on-the-mobile-web-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/2944\/","title":{"rendered":"Found on the Mobile Web #50"},"content":{"rendered":"

Found on the Mobile Web<\/em> is an weekly Wap Review<\/em> feature listing newly added and updated sites on the  yeswap.com<\/a> mobile portal and wapreview.com<\/a> mobile site directory.  With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 1351 mobile sites. Credit to  Oh! Mobile Directory<\/a> for discovering the majority of these sites.<\/p>\n

Travel-Transit\/Transit<\/a>\"Vamcouver
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Vancouver TransLink<\/em><\/strong> m.translink.ca<\/a> 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 version of the Translink site is available at m.translink.ca\/?i<\/a>
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Travel-Transit\/Air\/Airlines<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

British Airways<\/em><\/strong> ba2go.com<\/a> British Airways redesigned mobile site offers real-time arrival and departure information and mobile flight check in.
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Search\/Local<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

How’s the Bar?<\/em><\/strong> howsthebar.mobi<\/a> Live user generated reviews and updates on crowd size, male to female ratio, average age, entertainment, and drink value of bars and clubs in Chicago and the Chicago area. Receive text messages when your friends are bar hopping also. Free registration is required to use the site. Souce: <\/em>Chicago Daily Herald<\/a> via Mobility.mobi<\/a>
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Ticketline Mobile<\/em><\/strong> securemobile.ticketline.co.uk<\/a> Find and purchase tickets for concerts, gigs and events in the UK. I was surprised to see that this site has very low booking fees, no fee at all for most tickets, unlike US online ticket agencies which charge exorbitant fees of up to 30% of the ticket cost!
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theSUGGESTR<\/em><\/strong> m.thesuggestr.com<\/a> US-only local search for restaurants, hotels, bars, etc with crowd sourced recommendations. Register at the PC version of the site (thesuggestr.com<\/a>) to get personalized recommendations based on your preference and to add Fire Eagle and Twitter integration.
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Search\/Traffic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nevada Road Conditions <\/em><\/strong> nvroads.mobi<\/a> Nevada road conditions, construction alerts, ski reports and weather forecasts from the Nevada Commission on Tourism. Source<\/em>: dotMobi Blog<\/a>
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Technology\/Mobile\/News – Reviews<\/a>\"zcapes
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mwc – Zcapes<\/em><\/strong> m.zcapes.com\/tags\/12<\/a> Live micrblogs from the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the bigest mobile industry trade show in the world which is happening this week in Barcelona.  The micro-blogs are hosted on Zcapes, a brand new mobile based blogging platform from Amsterdam’s SPRXmobile<\/em>.  Zcapes is designed to make it easy to create an instant mobile friendly blog for an event or object.
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Entertainment\/Music-Nightlife<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

GIGWISE<\/em><\/strong> m.gigwise.com<\/a> Big music site with music news, photos, tickets purchases, videos, forum, reviews, Features, a festival guide and entertainment line ups, top 40 band list, venue search and classifieds (band members wanted, etc.) Image heavy pages (100+ KB\/page) may be an issue with basic phones and slow networks.
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News\/International\/Canada<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Corwall, On AM 1220<\/em><\/strong> mobile.am1220.ca<\/a> Local and national news, business news, sports, weather and more from Cornwall, Ontario’s information station, AM 1220. Text-only site design combines multiple stories per page and requires a lot of scrolling.  Source<\/em>: Seaway News<\/a>.
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News\/US Local by State\/Colorado – Florida<\/a>\"Greenwich
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Greenwich CT Citizen<\/em><\/strong> m.greenwichcitizen.com<\/a> The latest news, sports, weather, editorials, obituaries and the ever popular police blotter from Old Greenwich, Connecticut’s daily newspaper, the Greenwich Citizen.
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News\/US Local by State\/Minnesota -New Jersey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Twincities.com<\/em><\/strong> m.twincities.com\/<\/a> The Pioneer Press, a daily paper based in St. Paul, MN, serves readers in the Twin Cities’ East Metro region and Western Wisconsin. The paper is on the web at twincities.com and also opperates this well designed mobile web site featuring local news, sports, weather, entertainment, columnists and editorials.
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Sports\/Winter Sports<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ski Nevada<\/em><\/strong> nvski.mobi\/<\/a> Nevada and California ski reports, road conditions, and hotel information from the Nevada Commission on Tourism
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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 →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55],"tags":[610,148,1411,619,1408,1429,1424],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22306,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions\/22306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}