Found on the Mobile Web is an occasional 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 1135 mobile sites.
Entertainment/Music-Nightlife
Hammond Eggs (b3jazz.mobi) It's not unusual for musical performers to have a website, in fact it's practically a business necessity. But what about a mobile site to promote your band? The way mobile web usage is growing, creating a mobile version of your site will get you more traffic, increase CD and .mp3 sales and maybe even help you get gigs. Jermaine Landsberger and Paulo Morello, jazz players from Hamburg, Germany have done just that with this nicely designed mobile site promoting their latest album "Hammond Eggs" About that name, Jermaine plays the Hammond organ so that explains the first part, don't know about the "eggs". The mobile site has photos and bios of the musicians and mp3 excepts of all the tracks. Take a look and Listen, I think you'll like Hammond Eggs.
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Todoist (todoist.com/m) is another online task manager. It's often compared with RememberTheMilk.com (RTM). Both have mobile versions, which I consider an essential feature for ToDo applications. Neither fully embrace mobile though, there's no way to sign up to use the service from the mobile web sites.
Glide OS (glidemobile.com) is Transmedia's suite of online productivity, social and entertainment applications. It's billed as "The First complete Online Operating System". I'm a little uncomfortable with web services being called opperating systems, but the WebOS monicker seems to be catching on for online productivity suites like Glide. Regardless of what you call it, Glide is a very full featured product. It includes word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, a webpage builder, bookmark manager, RSS reader, photo editor, address book with integrated IM and webmail, and a calendar plus a personal blog and online photo, video and music sharing. On the PC, the Glide editors are Flash based and quite slick. Glide has mobile versions of almost all the modules implemented as html forms for compatabilty with even basic mobile browsers. Glide OS is ad free and comes in free and paid versions. The only difference is the amount of storage you get. The free edition includes 2 MB which can be increased to 12 MB for $9.95/month or $99.95/year.
Glide puts a lot of emphasis on security with fine grained levels of permisions which can be varied on a document by document basis. Glide is currently at Version 2.0 with 3.0, which will have enhanced mobile and offline features, due to be released May 28th. I'll try to do a more in-dept look at Glide 3.0 when it comes out.
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posted by Dennis Bournique
May 10, 2008 @ 8:24 pm
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