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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!
What if you could have one mobile website that displayed videos from all the major video sites on the Web?
That’s what TinyTube aims to be. And not only that, but you can do a quick search and all relevant videos are returned for your viewing pleasure (adult sites are not included by default).
The site does not host any videos itself. Rather, it serves as a proxy to other video sharing sites.
Here are the online video sites that TinyTube pulls from:
blip
break
dailymotion
filecabinet
google
ifilm
livevideo
metacafe
myspace
pornotube
pornotube
revver
veoh
xtube
youporn
youtube
I checked out the “Most Videos Being Watched Right Now” on TinyTube, and caught this amazing Youtube video about a ball girl making an amazing catch. I’ve heard it’s real, but I’m somewhat doubtful. Can anyone confirm? Here’s the video:
Have an iPhone but never bothered to set up your Yahoo! and Gmail accounts on it just yet? Take a look at this brief, yet informative video from Apple themselves on how to set your iPhone to access your web email on the go. Enjoy!
Watching YouTube videos from your mobile browser? Of course you can. Here are the requirements, directly from the Google Mobile page.
Requirements: You must have a compatible web browser on your Mobile phone and access to the Internet. The YouTube application requires a phone that supports Java and streaming video capability. Please see our help center pages for more information. This service is free from YouTube but charges from your wireless service may apply depending on your plan.
Last week I attended the Mobile Outlook 2008 round table breakfast in McLean, Virginia. The event included speakers from several area companies experiencing significant growth in the mobile industry:
SquareLoop
Provides patented location-based service (LBS) technology to enable targeted delivery of mobile communications.
Millenial Media
Offers mobile media solutions targeted specifically to the much sought-after 18-29 year old market (this company has a great story, by the way - check it out).
Core Capital Partners
Venture Capital firm located in Washington, DC and focused on “disruptive, core technologies.”
The speakers clearly had their own opinions about the industry and where things are headed. Here are my take-aways from the event:
Mass adoption of mobile TV is still 2-3 years out
We have only just begun to see the creative applications of text and multimedia messaging (SMS and MMS)
Getting mobile apps onto carrier decks remains harder than it should be, but is still worth the investment
Recent announcements by Verizon and Google to open up the industry is a good step, but the overriding question of “open networks” versus “open handsets” remains
The gents at YouTube (or now Google) must have read our earlier post on why the YouTube on Verizon deal was a joke.
As they announced yesterday, YouTube has expanded its mobile offerings and vastly increased the number of handsets and carriers that support it.
Below is an excerpt from the press release:
Not only will users and partners have access to the largest mobile video catalog, they also will be able to personalize their experience. Users will now have access to features regularly used on YouTube, including their YouTube accounts, Favorites, Videos, Channels as well as the ability to directly upload from mobile devices and share videos instantly. Users also will now have the ability to rate and comment on videos directly from their mobile phones.
Hopefully this is a sign that these exclusive carrier deals that offer just a fraction of the content are a thing of the past. I like to think that our last post had a little something to do with it. Just maybe.
In case you have not checked lately, there are a host of mobile sites and services that are making everyday life easier for thousands of people just like us. To highlight just a sample, I compiled the following list of 71 things you can do from your mobile phone.
I wanted to make this interactive, so I temporarily left the links off of a few items. Why? So that we can learn from you and everyone else out there. If you have recommendations for what mobile sites or tools to use to accomplish any of the items below, leave a comment to this post and share your knowledge. After February 9, ten of the highest quality commenters will be sent a free MobileMammoth t-shirt, AND I will add the links to the remaining items in the list.
I hope you are able to find at least a few gems here that make your life a little easier. I worked on this list for a while, so hopefully all the links are still active!
Lest anyone thinks the major television networks are ignoring the amount of video being watched on mobile phones and PDAs, think again. Read more on the
NBC offers a mobile website for users to stay current on some of their more popular shows. While full-length versions of the actual episodes are not quite there yet, users can play games, get text message updates, and download ringtones and mobile wallpaper of images from the shows.
Many of their shows have their own mobile web page. Here are a few:
Designed for the teen set, itsmy.com is a mobile community where users can download videos, pictures and other content to their mobile phone. The only requirement is that new users send in their own, original piece of content in order to join.
This is a clever implementation of generating a service using user-generated content, and creating a mobile community around it. Hats off to the folks that started itsmy.com.
I bet there are other areas where this same concept, implemented correctly, could flourish - particularly where the other people’s content would be interesting to the community. I bet many of you out there could think of something and start this type of community without too much investment.
So let’s hear your ideas out there? Let’s help people get started creating a new mobile business in 2008!
If you have Windows Media Mobile Player on your phone, then get ready to bookmark the following mobile website for your TV viewing pleasure.
CoolStream.mobi includes a long list of links to video sites that will launch video on your phone. Every link we checked launched quickly. The video quality and granularity varied based on the site, but that is to be expected. Check out the categories of video-related sites you can find on Coolstream.mobi:
• News
• Information
• Entertainment
• Movies
• Reality
• Lifestyle
• Shopping
• Music
• Youth
• Kids
• Sports
• Games
• Special
• Miscellaneous
• Italian Channels
• Web Radio
As the site tells you in the footer, the video sites it links to are not supported by phones on the Symbian operating system. So this is primarily for Windows phone users.
I wanted to make this interactive, so I temporarily left the links off of a few items. Why? So that we can learn from you and everyone else out there. If you have recommendations for what mobile sites or tools to use to accomplish any of the items below, leave a comment to this post and share your knowledge. After February 9, ten of the highest quality commenters will be sent a free 