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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 1773 mobile sites. Technology/Mobile/Smartphones/Symbian SymbianOne mippin.com/symbianone News blog covering Symbian games, development tools, usage case studies, market analysis and employment opportunities. Source Anything Geospatial Content: Usability: Technology/Internet the css blog m.thecssblog.com A nice collection of very good CSS tips and tutorials in blog … Continue reading

Lonely Planet Mobile

Lonely Planet‘s mobile web site ( m.lonelyplanet.com) has become my new favorite free online mobile travel guide. The site provides extensive information for hundreds of cities around the world. For each destination listings cover restaurants, hotels, shopping, attractions and night life. For major cites like Vancouver there are hundreds of listings, each of which includes a brief description, click to call phone number, address, Google map and approximate price range. The site is searchable by keyword and tag and also … Continue reading

Found on the Mobile Web #65

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 1704 mobile sites. Technology/Internet Six Revisions m.sixrevisions.com is web designer and developer Jacob Gube’s blog. Jacob covers both design and development with tips, opinions and tutorials by himself and guest authors. Jacob created the mobile view of his site with Mobify. Content: Usability: CSS-Tricks m.css-tricks.com On … Continue reading

Found on the Mobile Web #61

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 mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 1630 mobile sites. News Treehugger m.treehugger.com,  by Discovery Communications, is a leading news blog covering environmental issues, the “green” movement and sustainable living. Attractive site design is by Crisp Wireless. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory Content: Usability: Travel-Transit/Air Krakow Airport m.krakowairport.pl/en Scheludes,flight status, directory … Continue reading

A Mobile Guide to Amsterdam

The Amsterdam Mobile Guide at us.holland.com/mobile is a new visitors guide to Amsterdam from the Netherlands Board of Tourism and Conventions. It has extensive coverage of attractions, bars, gay and lesbian events and establishments, restaurants, hotels, museums and transportation options with loads of photos and an interactive map. Although billed as being usable with all mobile browsers, the site is clearly optimized for advanced devices with large screens like the iPhone and G1. With some horizontal scrolling, it’s also usable … Continue reading

Wheretraveler – Free U.S. Mobile Travel Guides

The publisher of the Insider’s Guide series of travel books offers an alternative to bulky printed travel guides at WhereTraveler ( wheretraveler.com/m).  The site has mobile web based  guides to major US cities plus London and Paris. Guides list recommended Shops, Attractions, Tours, Transportation, Museums, Galleries, Neighborhoods, Spas, Salons, Theaters and Night Spots with descriptions, price range, address and click to call phone numbers.  There’s a translation feature that will machine translate listings to 21 different languages. There’s also an … Continue reading

Hotel.mobi – Not as Promised

I saw a  press release today on TMC.net touting a new hotel search and booking site; ” Hotel.mobi, a portal run by Quinv SA, a Luxembourg-based company that invests in domain names and high value web portals, has announced the official launch of its website, http://www.hotel.mobi a web directory enabling mobile users to find the hotels near their current location and call the hotels’ booking desks in one single click.” All of which sounds great.  For some reason mobile sites … Continue reading

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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 mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 1416 mobile sites. Search Mosio Mobile m.mosio.com Mosio is similar to Yahoo Answers but for mobile. You can text any question from your phone or enter it on the site and have it answered by real people (other Mosio members).Source: Oh! Mobile Directory … Continue reading