The Symbian Blog Goes Mobile With A New WordPress Plugin

I recently found Vaibhav Sharma’s site, The Symbian Blog.  The name is a little misleading as focus of the site seems to be mainly Nokia and S60  rather than Symbian as a whole.  There’s very little about UIQ and MOAP. But I suppose that’s OK as those platforms are likely to soon become history and Symbian will become  a synonym for S60. The site is updated daily and features product announcements, hardware and software reviews and tips for getting the … Continue reading

Metro – User Generated Video Revenue Sharing

Metro a free print newspaper distributed on public transit systems in the UK.  In the nine years since its launch, Metro has become the fourth largest paper in the country with over a million daily readers.  Metro is also on the web at metro.co.uk and on the mobile web at metro.mobi. The most interesting thing about Metro is its video section, MEviews. The video content costs 50p a clip to download and it’s all user generated. While this sounds like … Continue reading

Found on the Mobile Web 47

Found on the Mobile Web is an occasional 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 1271 mobile sites. Entertainment/Gossip Gossip Bucket (m.gossipbucket.com) Another new site from MobileInfocenter, publisher of MobilityBeat, Tech News Tube and Mac Hash. Like the other MobileInfoCenter sites (review), Gossip Bucket is a topic-specific feed aggregator.  The topic is celebrity gossip and the content is pulled from sites like Perez Hilton, Gawker, E! Online, Defamer, People, … Continue reading

Two Indian Financial News Sites

Thanks to Naiyer at oh.dirlink.mobi for recommending this pair of Indian financial and business news mobile sites.  India is a very interesting area for global as well as Indian investors. The country’s GNP is growing at a rate of over 9% a year making it one of the fastest growing major economies in the world.  These two mobile sites along with The Economic Times, offer the best and most detailed information and analysis of Indian business trends and news on … Continue reading