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Are you in to the social networking scene? If so, you should be aware of Reddit’s mobile website.
Much like Digg (which is about to be acquired by Google), Reddit allows users to submit and vote on stories, pictures, and videos from around the web. Most of the popular stories on Reddit tend to be around humor, the unbelievable or wacky, left-leaning politics, or all of the above.
Now go read it at Reddit Mobile!
Mobile Website:
m.reddit.com
August 7th, 2008
Get a chuckle out of the latest Paris Hilton video on FunnyOrDie.com? (If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s rated G). So did a lot of people. Now you can get your funny video fix right from your iPhone, or even your Verizon phone!
Here’s how, according to the folks at FunnyOrDie.com:
FunnyOrDie.com, iPhone Style
1. Open your Safari mobile browser on your iPhone.
2. Enter the regular URL - www.funnyordie.com - into the address bar.
3. Add to your Safari bookmarks by pushing the “+” in Safari, then select ‘Add to Home Screen’.
Enjoy! The 3G network will no doubt increase video speeds.
FunnyOrDie.com on the Trusty Verizon Network
1. You must have a V-CAST phone in a V-CAST coverage area.
2. Press the right navigation key to open the ‘Get It Now’ menu.
3. Press the down navigation key to highlight “Picture & Video”, then press the OK button.
4. Next, select “V-CAST Videos” to launch the service.
5. Select the ‘Comedy’ category and then select ‘Funny or Die’ to launch the channel.
Apparently Paris planned for this video to get released. If you somehow missed it, you can view it here (We spared everyone from embedding the video here - sorry, but it’s just not relevant enough).
August 6th, 2008
Papa John’s launched a mobile website on Thursday, allowing customers to set up accounts, place orders, find the nearest restaurant, and view special offers all through a mobile browser.
Once an account is set up, ordering pizza becomes much easier as they already have your payment information and default location. There is no difference between accounts created on the mobile website and accounts created on www.papajohns.com. And if you already have an account at www.papajohns.com, you simply use the same ID and password on their mobile website.
Now I’m hungry. Enjoy!
Mobile Website:
mobile.papajohns.com
August 4th, 2008
For those that may be unconvinced on the penetration of the mobile web and mobile applications, watch this video from the TechCrunch/August Capital Mobile Web Wars roundtable. You’ll walk away all geeked up, ready to develop apps for the iPhone and maybe even Google’s Android platform.
And for those that still carry around a Motorola Razr, listen to the guy from CrunchGear!
Streaming Video by Ustream.TV
Read more about the event here.
August 1st, 2008
A friend just sent me some information about a relatively new mobile email service that adds encryption and other services to your email. Sweet!
Dubbed Hushmail, they just launched a beta of their mobile version, meaning you can now send encrypted email from your web-enabled mobile phone. The desktop version of Hushmail has been around since 1999.
Hushmail offers a free version that includes basic encrypted email services, and a premium version that includes the following features:
- Send and receive email from your desktop
- Receive encrypted email from your website
- 250 MB storage for email and secure file storage
- Unlimited pseudonyms
- Technical Support
Not too shabby! I have not used hushmail yet so I cannot speak to the quality just yet, but I definitely want to try it out as soon as I have time.
To Sign Up or Find Out More:
Hushmail
Mobile Website:
m.hush.com
July 31st, 2008
We are running across more and more mobile websites that aim to help you become more productive both at work and at home. Here’s another that will help you remember the milk, among other things.
I wonder how many of you have tried this one out before. Let us know your feedback!
Mobile Website:
m.rmilk.com
July 30th, 2008
We like to help our are readers whenever we can, especially those that contribute interesting comments for everyone else. So today we are highlighting an Apple iPhone Web App that one of our readers, Chuck, just mentioned in a comment on a previous post about the iGolfScorecard app.
Chuck’s company, oobgolf, just submitted the smartSCORECARD iPhone application to the Apple Web Apps store, and it’s clearly much more than a web-based scorecard. It leverages their database of courses from around the country, and it helps keep track of just how many drives you are slicing off to the right.
You can find out more about it here. Good luck Chuck!
iPhone Web App:
smartSCORECARD
July 29th, 2008
So you’re at the store searching for that perfect bottle of wine, and you don’t know where to start. Should you go with a Cab, a nice white, or maybe a Merlot?
The next time you find yourself in this situation, break out your mobile phone and browse on over to Mobile Wine List. You’ll be able to browse wine reviews, see wine ratings from other members, and of course, create and update your very own wine list.
Use this mobile website for a while and who knows — you may even turn into a wine connoisseur.
July 27th, 2008
We have covered several mobile Twitter interfaces over the past year or so, and some of them have already caught on in a big way.
The reality is that we’re still in the top of the second inning in this battle over mobile Twitter clients, with more entrants still to enter the game. The latest is called iTwtr, and creator Dan Phiffer has certainly set it apart from other Twitter clients in a number of ways.
First, it starts downloading your data from your Twitter account in the background upon login. This is slick.
Second, you can download the source code and run the Twitter service from your own box.
Third, the robust configuration options allows you to access just about any combination of Twitter feeds and replies you are interested in.
Finally, the About page is fantastic. Ridiculously simple and easy to read, yet informative.
Go play around with it yourself and see what you think. Thanks for sharing Dan!
Mobile Website:
http://itwtr.com/
July 23rd, 2008
Andreas Constantinou at VisionMobile hosts this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists.
Of the many posts Andreas covers from around the mobile web, our favorite excerpt is the following:
“Moving to mobile strategy posts, Ajit Jaokar at his OpenGardens blog makes a good point: every player in the value chain will have to make the choice between being a Pipe (e.g. IP networks), a Software (e.g. WebKit, LiMo) or a Platform (Nokia and Google). It’s a choice certainly most operators are reluctant to make.”
The sooner these firms make this difficult decision, the further ahead they will be.
July 22nd, 2008
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