Monthly Archives: October 2006

Slate Mobile

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Slate (mobile.slate.com) is an online news and lifestyle magazine originally owned by Microsoft but now the property of the Washington Post. Slate is quite similar to Salon.com in it’s style and the type of articles it features. The mobile edition contains selected articles, features and columns from the full site . Although not the full Slate, the mobile version has quite a bit of content. There are 20 articles from today’s coverage plus about the same number for each of … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists at tarek speaks mobile

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Tarek Abu-Esber is hosting this week’s Carnival at his very interesting blog, tarek speaks mobile. This is another case where the Carnival has lead me to a great but new (to me) site. Tarek’s emphasis is the Symbian S60 platform and his site is full of mouth watering images of the latest hardware (that we will probably never see here in the US – sigh) along with insightful articles on hardware, software, the mobile business and it’s future. The latest … Continue reading →

NBC Sports Mobile

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NBC Sports (mobile.nbcsports.com) “Sports” is kind of a misnomer for this site. As of this writing in October, 2006 NBC Sports Mobile is covering only one sport – NFL Football. Last week’s baseball World Series was never mentioned on NBC Sports Mobile! Not that it’s a bad football site – for pigskin fans the site is interesting with lots of game photos, scores, player stats, week by week schedules, game recaps, injury lists and news and features about notable players. … Continue reading →

MobilePlay, a Portal with Exclusive Content

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Mobileplay is a free ad supported mobile portal that offers some content that is not available anywhere else. Probably the best reason to visit Mobileplay is Salon.com. While it’s true that Salon has it’s own mobile site which I reviewed a while back that site is limited to just excerpts from a handful of stories. Salon on Mobileplay has the full content of over 100 current Salon articles. Other Mobileplay exclusives include AP News, Wired, TechnologyGuide.com, DigitalCameraReview.com, Flavorpill, About.com and … Continue reading →

A Fashion Rag on Your Phone

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The Daily Front Row (dfr.mlogic3g.com) is a print fashion magazine published in conjunction with and distributed at major fashion shows. I couldn’t find an online edition other than the mobile one. This is the first time that I’ve seen a print publisher go straight to the mobile web. I’d read more into this but for the fact that the Daily Front Row mobile site is apparently a Cingular promotion targeting attendees at last week’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Los Angeles. … Continue reading →

Fandango Mobile

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Fandango (mobile.fandango.com) has launched a mobile web site. As every moviegoer in the US knows, Fandango is a web business selling movie tickets. They are best known for the goofy ads featuring a frumpy couple played by hand puppets made from paper bags that participating theatres show before every movie. To use the web version of Fandango, you pay by credit card and print out your ticket. The site also lets you search for movie theatre show times, read reviews … Continue reading →

Validation is Your Friend

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It constantly amazes me that so many mobile web sites fail validation. And it’s not just new sites, even some of the biggest names in the industry have mobile pages that have been failing for years when validated by the W3C’s online validator. Probably a third of all the sites I look at don’t validate. The most common problems are: “Naked” ampersands in text and URLs (XML based markup requires that all ampersands be represented by the appropriate html entity). … Continue reading →

Carnival at MobHappy

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This week the Carnival of the Mobilists returns to the blog where it all started, Russell Buckley and Carl Longino’s MobHappy.com. The first Carnival, also at MobHappy was Oct. 13, 2005 so the Carnival is over a year old already. I’d like to think that we are celebrating the Carnival’s first anniversary this week at it’s birthplace. We, meaning everyone who works in the mobile industry or has an interest in it, owe a debt of gratitude to Russell and … Continue reading →