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Yahoo oneSearch

admin — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:16:26 +0000

The mobile web version of Yahoo’s oneSearch (us.m.yahoo.com/p/search) has launched. In addition to that address which takes you to a dedicated oneSearch page, there is a oneSearch box at the top of Yahoo’s US mobile home page at us.m.yahoo.com
Yahoo makes some pretty impressive claims regarding oneSearch. According to Yahoo;
“Finally, mobile search that really works! Introducing Yahoo! oneSearch, an amazingly better search experience that redefines search for the phone. It’s designed to give you instant answers – exactly what you need when you’re on the go. Yahoo! oneSearch understands the type of search you’re doing and optimizes the results accordingly—so you get the answers you need instantly with just one click, right there on the page. oneSearch includes more actual content in your initial results than any other search—all grouped by subject matter and relevance, so there’s no sea of links to wade through like with a PC search. It’s [...]

Mobile Meme Trackers

admin — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:47:12 +0000

A meme (rhymes with theme) according to Wikipedia, is a “unit of cultural information” such as “…tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.” As used in the Web 2.0 world it seems to have come to mean “hot topic” or “the next big thing”. A lot of people have a need to know the day’s newest and hottest memes and a number of Web sites attempt to track just that. The first was probably Gabe Rivera’s news and politics site memeorandum.com which uses an algorithm to pick the top stories from a combination of traditional news sites and blogs. Memeorandum developed quite a following and eventually spun off sister sites Techmeme, WeSmirch (gossip) and BallBug (baseball) and a small army of competitors.
The meme tracker is spreading to the mobile web. Here’s a roundup of current mobile [...]

Formula One Mobile

admin — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:53:25 +0000

The Formula One auto racing season kicks off next Sunday with the Melbourne Grand Prix. Here’s a look at some sites that let you follow the F1 circus on your mobile phone.
F1-Live.com: I’ve just found an i-mode version of the elusive F1-Live mobile site. F1-Live has some of the best F1 coverage on the mobile web with daily news and very detailed live reports. There are lots of photos and it’s all presented in a mobile friendly and reasonably low-bandwidth format. The trouble is that F1-Live is only available as an exclusive feature within certain mobile carrier’s walled gardens. So if you are a Vodaphone UK customer, F1-Live is on your carrier deck, the rest of us are out of luck. Once in a while F1-Live appears on a public url and now is one of those times. At least temporarily, there’s an i-mode version of F1-Live at [...]

Tappity = Mobile Del.icio.us?

admin — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:53:34 +0000

Tappity is a new mobile social bookmarking site. This is a genre that didn’t exist a year ago and now has at least four players, WapTags (review), Mobleo (review), Mopitopia (review) and now Tappity.com (mobile – mobile.tappity.com).
Unlike the other three, with Tappity you do all your tagging from your desktop browser, there is no way to tag or bookmark from the mobile site. I think mobile tagging is an essential feature. I want to be able to tag mobile sites from the PC occasionally, but mobile site discovery is best done on a mobile. Many sites that use browser detection won’t even deliver a mobile page to a desktop browser.
I tried creating a bookmarklet so I could tag from Opera Mini but it doesn’t work. When Tappity detects a mobile browser trying to access any page of the PC site, including the submit form, it redirects to [...]