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Found On The Mobile Web 253
Found on the Mobile Web is a regular 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 2317 mobile sites.
Tech/Internet/Web Design & Development
onderhond onderhond.com Web front-end developer Niels Matthijs' personal and professional blog has articles on web design plus movie reviews and a gallery on Niels' travel photos. He recently redesigned the site using responsive design principles so that it reflows to a single column in modern mobile browsers 320 px and wider. You can read about the redesign on the site.
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Tweet9 tweet9.tk Another attractive re-skinning of the dabr open source Twitter client. The eye pleasing design is inspired by the Twitter for Android app. Features include long tweets (more than 140 characters) using TwtMore, the ability to upload your Twitter profile and background images and photo uploading using the Twitter Photo Upload API.
The same author also offers a black and florid green (or pink) re-skinning of Dabr at twbird.tk
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Tech/Tech News Sites and Blogs
TechnoBuffalo www.technobuffalo.com Launched in 2009, TechnoBuffalo has grown quickly to become one of the top US-based tech blogs. Content includes tech news, reviews, tech tips and lots of videos.The attractive mobile view, a custom WordPress theme, includes all the site's content, including the videos. It works well in smartphone browsers and Opera Mini.
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Tech/Tech News Sites and Blogs
GSMArena m.gsmarena.com One of the top mobile technology news sites. GSMArena's mobile edition includes the three most popular features of the desktop site; the latest mobile news, handset reviews and a comprehensive database of mobile phone specifications.
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Entertainment and Leisure/Literature
Wattpad Touch touch.wattpad.com/search Touchscreen version of the Wattpad eBook site. Wattpad is a community of readers and authors where anyone can publish stories for all to read. Wattpad has native book reader apps for iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Java ME and you can also read online using a reader webapp on the site. There's also a version of Wattpad.com optimized for feature phones at m.wattpad.com
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Notesi www.notesi.com/mobileonlinebookmarks.jsp A free service providing secure, private, cloud based storage for your browser bookmarks. Notesi makes your bookmarks available in all your browsers on all your devices.
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CNN Political Ticker politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com With the US presidential election year in full swing, CNN's political blog is jumping. The mobile friendly site is updated throughout the day with current US political news and analysis.
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ICTs for Development ict4dblog.wordpress.com From researchers at the University of Manchester’s Centre for Development Informatics, ICTs for Development covers the use information and communication technologies to encourage socio-economic development.
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FAILFaire failfaire.org The blog of FAILFaire, a conference focused on learning from failed ICT4D projects.
ICT4D is an acronym for "information and communication technologies for development" which means using technology, especially computers, web and mobile, to enable and encourage socioeconomic growth and human rights. Examples include the One Laptop per Child Project and MedAfrica, which lets rural users connect to doctors and medical information using basic mobile phones.
Not all projects are successes. FAILFaire aims to help ICT4D professionals and participants learn how to succeed by analyzing what didn't work.
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Nature nature.com Founded in 1869, Nature is one of the most respected scientific journals in the world. It publishes original research from all branches of science as well editorials, book reviews and feature articles of interest to the scientific community.
Nature's desktop website got a "responsive design" makeover yesterday and now adapts itself to mobile viewport widths. Unlike most responsive designs which work in both landscape and portrait orientation, Nature seems to expect mobile users to view the site in landscape only. The site's layout looked rather jumbled to me in portrait using the Android Gingerbread, Symbian Belle, Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers but was find when I switched to landscape. Via: @Microflash
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Found On the Mobile Web #239
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 2321 mobile sites.
Toronto TC m.ttc.ca The Toronto Transit Commission's official site has bus, subway and streetcar schedules, a transit trip planner, fare and pass information and PDF! maps.
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Toronto Next Streetcar nextstreetcar.ca Built on open transit data from the Toronto Transit Commisson, this webapp gives real time arrival information for Toronto's streetcar lines. Optionally, it uses the HTML5 geo-loaction API, if available, to display times for the nearest stop. Via @acurrie
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NokiaDNA www.nokiadna.com Written by MikyFin, an English mobile radio engineer living and working in Finland. NokiaDNA reviews phones, apps, software and accessories.
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Distimo Blog blog.distimo.com Distimo covers App Stores. Not just the Apple App Store but also the dozens of manufacturer, operator and 3rd party stores that are springing up every where you look. Content includes mobile app and app store news and market reports.
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Adam Cohen iamadamcohen.wordpress.com Gymnast, juggler, circus performer and teacher Adam Cohen's lively blog covers literature, theater arts, the circus and life in general.
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Substance of Code www.substanceofcode.com Mobile Java and Qt app developer Tommi Laukkanen's blog and download site. Read Tommi's thoughts on mobile development and download his apps which include the Twitter clients Twim (Java) and TwimGo (Symbian) and NewsFlow, a new Google Reader client for Symbian and Maemo.
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Kmart2Go m.kmart.com The mobile online arm of Kmart, one of the largest US chains of discount department stores in the US. Kmart sells clothing, small appliances, electronics, toys, tools and auto accessories. Payment is by credit card or by logging into your Kmart.com account and using your stored payment information.
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Alibris: www.alibris.com clams to be the independently owned and operated online marketplace for used books. The site lists over 120 million new and used books, including textbooks and rare and collectible titles. as well as music, and movies,
The site's mobile view only seems to support the iPhone, Android, WebOS and BlackBerry 6. Other mobile browsers including Opera Mobile and Mini and the bada and Symbian browsers are served the desktop version by default.
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Media Matters mediamatters.org/mobile/ Media Matters for America is a not-for-profit, research and information site dedicated to monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
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Teen Vogue m.teenvogue.com is a glossy version of Vogue magazine targetted at teen girls. The magazine's web site is focused on fashion and celebrities and also has contests. Content includes videos. The site's mobile view is powered by Mobify.
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POLITICO - Top US Politics Site's Mobile Editions
POLITICO is a three year old politics focused daily newspaper distributed for free in Washington D.C. It's widely read by politicians, lobbyists and other D.C. insiders. The paper's website, Politico.com has significant national readership with an Alexa US traffic ranking of 287.
The mobile version of Politico is at mobile.Politico.com (first image). It was launched shortly after the PC one in December, 2007. Mobile devices visiting Politico.com are not automatically redirected to the mobile version. But iPhones (and only iPhones) visiting the mobile URL are redirected to a special "Touch Web" version that can be viewed with other browsers by using the URL mobile.Politico.com/iphone/. The touch version works great with the Android browser (second image) but I experienced some rendering issues using it in Opera Mini and with a Nokia N95's WebKit based browser. Both mobile variants average 40KB, excluding JavaScript which both use but do not require.
Politco's mobile editions are somewhat limited. They do appear to include, with one exception, the full text and photos from all the articles and sections on the main site. The exception is Mike Allen's daily "Playbook" column, arguably the most popular feature on Politico and thus a strange thing to leave out. Other limitations of Politico mobile are the complete absence of reader comments and the removal of all hyperlinks, both internal and external from within news stories. Politco's stories get hundreds of comments, with the discussions often as interesting as the original articles, so why not include them, even if only in read-only format. The same goes for links, Politco's stories are loaded with links, almost entirely internal ones to related articles and background information. I don't understand why Politico would want to strip out links, especially internal links, which help keep readers on the site.
I applaud Politico for recognizing the mobile web's potential and providing attractive, well organized mobile sites with lots of content. But I'm disappointed by the "dumbing down" of the mobile versions by the removal of important features like comments, links and Mike Allen's column. Source: Taptu State of The Mobile Touch Web Report (PDF)
Filed in: Wap Review Directory - News
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Ready.mobi Score: 2 "Bad"
Mobile Link: mobile.Politico.com
FactCheck.org's Mobile Site Debunks Politician's False Claims
FactCheck.org is a non-partisan, non-profit project from the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. It researches and debunks false claims made by U.S. politicians and political action groups in campaign materials, speeches and in promoting legislation.
FactCheck has played a significant role in recent U.S.elections. In the 2008 presential campaign Factcheck.org flagged multiple falsehoods by both candidates, including Obama’s statement that McCain’s Social Security proposal would cut retiree benefits by 50% and McCain’s claim that Obama lied about his association with anti-war activist Bill Ayers.
FactCheck is available in a mobile formatted version at factcheck.org/mobile/. I like that virtually all the desktop site’s content is available in the mobile edition. However, the size of the pages (the homepage is 151 KB) means the site will not load on most non-smartphones. In spite of the increasing popularity of iPhones, BlackBerries and other devices with full web browsers, only 37.3% of U.S. mobile web page requests come from smartphones. Devices like the venerable Motorola RAZR V3 or MetroPCS’ entry-level Nokia 1006 account for significant amounts of traffic and can not handle pages much over 20 KB. Given that FactCheck.org’s content is mainly text it shouldn’t have been very hard for the site’s designers to follow the example of news sites like CNN, the BBC and even small town newspapers like the Elmira NY Star-Gazette and built a mobile site that could accommodate all browsers.
Filed in: Wap Review Directory – Reference
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Ready.mobi Score: 1 “Bad”
Mobile Link: factcheck.org/mobile/
