{"id":328,"date":"2007-06-03T20:17:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T03:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=328"},"modified":"2020-09-26T21:48:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T04:48:18","slug":"mobicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/328\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobicious"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mobicious<\/em> (mtagd.com\/w<\/a>) is an innovative new mobile content search portal. You can search for downloadable content of various kinds; ringtones, games and wallpapers and also SMS Services and mobile web sites<\/strong>. Users can review and rate each content item in Mobicious <\/em>and upload and share images. You can search just a single category like games or tag multiple categories and search them simultaneously. I especially like that searches can be restricted to only free content.<\/p>\n

Xen Dolev at Xellular Identity<\/em> has a good post<\/a> covering Mobicious<\/em>‘ business model and their PC web site. I’m going to focus on the mobile side of Mobicious<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Mobicious <\/em>is brand new and the listings are still a little sparse and there are few reviews or ratings. In order to use Mobicious <\/em>on your phone you must first register on a PC at www.mobicious.com<\/a>. The site is in Alpha so this is OK for now but Mobicious <\/em>really needs to open the mobile site up for browsing by un-registered users. While it’s easy to register and requires only an email address requiring it to use the mobile site will hurt adoption. A mobile search and portal site needs to be discoverable from the mobile web. Other mobile sites and search engines will link to Mobicious.<\/em> Users who follow the links will land on the login page and not be able to do anything – not a good first impression. Browsing and searching, \"as opposed to rating, reviewing and purchasing content shouldn’t require registration anyway.<\/p>\n

I like the way Mobicious <\/em>presents search results with a thumbnail image of the site, game, etc. It’s also really easy to a rate an item by picking 1-5 from a dropdown and there’s a textbox waiting for you to type a review.<\/p>\n

Mobicious <\/em>looks promising. The site seems to be following the model established on the PC web by sites like PriceGrabber.com and Yahoo Shopping. These sites provide a product search engine along with user driven product ratings and reviews and take a small referral fee from vendors. This model has worked well on the PC web and I believe it’s transferable to the mobile web.<\/p>\n

Link: <\/small>mtagd.com\/w<\/a> (cHtml)<\/p>\n

Ratings – Content: \"*\"\"*\"\"*\" Usability: \"X\"\"X\"\"X\"<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mobicious (mtagd.com\/w) is an innovative new mobile content search portal. You can search for downloadable content of various kinds; ringtones, games and wallpapers and also SMS Services and mobile web sites. Users can review and rate each content item in Mobicious and upload and share images. You can search just a single category like games or tag multiple categories and search them simultaneously. I especially like that searches can be restricted to only free content. Xen Dolev at Xellular Identity … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"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=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21733,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/21733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}