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Last post 05-26-2008 9:31 AM by Kris Gainsforth. 36 replies.
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  • 03-25-2008 3:12 PM

    • Bill Fisher
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    Mobile-Optimized Sites: A List

     Are you looking for great-looking mobile content to demo for your customers? Look no further. 

    Business

    Ameritrade

    Trade and Watch Stocks

    Bloomberg

    Track your portfolio

    Business Week

    Mobile Business Week

    Fidelity

    Trade and Watch Stocks

    Forbes

    Mobile Forbes

    StockPoint

    Can't create a portfolio, but other tools such as charts are awesome

    Schwab

    Trade and Watch Stocks

    Entertainment

    Billboard

    Music industry weekly that tracks record and song popularity in dozens of "charts", the best known of which is the Billboard Hot 100. All the charts are available on this new mobile site along with album cover art and chart history by artist.

    Broadway Mobile

    Mobile guide to Broadway plays, pls synopses, cast list and curtain times for current on-Broadway shows.

    ClubFone

    Nightlife guide for 30 US cities. Lists the major venues and headliners for various categories of music and comedy. Also a good selection of neighborhood bars, brewpubs and dance clubs.

    Fandango

    Buy those tickets on your way to the theater.  Theatre show times and movies as well.

    Radio Online

    Steam that radio to your device using Tuned.mobi's service.

    News - International

    AllAfrica

    Good to see Africa represented in the mobility space. 

    BBC News

    This is BBC's PDA website.  The graphics are awesome and are optimized for the PDA form factor.  For WAP website, go here.

    CanWest

    CanWest's take on the news is also non-wap based.  Mobile continues to go mainstream.

    ChannelNewsAsia

    Based in Singapore, here's a non-wap news site for APAC.

    CNN International

    If you're a CNN junkie, here's your fix.

    DW - Deutsche Welle

    German broadcaster but you can get content in 29 different languages from this site.

    India Times

    I usually don't like wap but India Times is a really rich site.

    International Herald Tribune

    117-yo Paris based English language daily.  Solid graphics and very fast.

    Malaysian News

    Here's a site in English, Malay and Chinese

    SwissInfo

    Can't get enough of EMEA, here's another great broadcaster taking it to mobile

    News - United States

    ABC News

    WAP based

    CBS News

    HTML based

    Chicago Tribune

    Get the latest from the Windy City's best daily newspaper.

    Christian Science Monitor

    Popular and html based.

    KING5

    Seatttle area folks can get the latest news, weather, and traffic.

    LA Times

    Arguably one of the top papers in the country mobilized!

    MSNBC

    Uses browser detection to serve you the best content for your device. 

    New York Business

    Gotta get your business news from the Big Apple. 

    Orlando Sentinel

    Going to MGX or CTIA?  Here's your news, plus you can email articles.

    Salon

    Popular Online News magazine is mobile.

    SF - KTVU

    Fox's KTVU uses intelligent browser detection to help send content for your screen size. 

    Washington Post

    One of the most prestigious papers in the US has fixed it's mobile site.

    USA Today

    WAP based version of a popular American Daily - Great Sports.

    News - Humor/Satire

    The Onion

    Humorous, made up news stories.

    Package Tracking

    FedEx

    Track a package, get rates, or find a FedEx store.

    People Search

    InfoSpace

    White Pages, Yellow Pages and Reverse Phone directory.

    Switchboard

    White and Yellow pages. Reverse phone number lookup. Driving directions

    YP

    Yellow Pages, While Pages Reverse Phone Lookup, Reverse Address Lookup, Neighbor Look-up, and MapQuest Maps and Driving Directions

    Reference

    Answers.com

     

    Dictionary.com

    Dictionary

    LangtoLang

    Medical Questions

    Pocket Doctor

     

    Wapedia (Wikipedia)

     

    Search - Local

    10Best

    Find the 10 Best of anything in 3,500 cities around the world.  Very nice HTML based site.

    MSN Live Local

    Web site for Live Search.

    Starbucks Locator

    Get your fix anywhere in the US or Canada.....sorry EMEA

    Search - Web

    Google

    Pretty good site but results are an amalgam of mobile and non-mobile optimized sites which makes the usability of web searches questionable. 

    Live Search

    Microsoft's Web Search

    Yahoo oneSearch

    Yahoo's Web Search

    Shopping

    Amazon

    Amazon.com Shopping Site - Books/Music/DVDs/Toys/etc.

    Craigslist

    Free Classified Ads

    Century 21 - House Shopping

    Drive a new neighborhood and search fort available houses while you're at it.  Brilliant!

    Ebay

    Worlds Largest Auction site / Garage Sale

    Overstock.com

    Supposedly overstock items being blown out at low prices.

    NY Book Review

    Books

    Social Networking

    Flickr

    Yahoo's Photo Sharing Site

    Live Spaces

    Your personal web page with blogs, photos, etc.  By Microsoft

    Sports

    BBC Sports

     

    CBS Sportsline

     

    ESPN

    ESPN Sports

    Travel - Airline

    Air Canada

     

    America West

     

    American Air

     

    Alaska Air

     

    Austrian Air

     

    Continental Air

     

    Delta Air

     

    El Al

     

    Jetblue

     

    KLM

     

    Lufthansa

     

    Northwest Air

     

    Qantas

     

    SAS

     

    Southwest

     

    United Airlines

     

    US Airways

     

    Travel - Destinations

    Disney

    Visitor's Guide to Disney parks - Superfast!

    Travel - General / Tools

    Cabbies.mobi

    Get a cab in the US, Canada, or the UK

    CarRentals.com

     

    Concierge

     

    FlightStats

    Simple Flight Status Website.  Great for checking on airport status, security wait times, and flight delays.

    Fodors

    Travel Guide

     

     

    Travel - Hotels

    Hotels.com

     

    Travel - Rail

    DB European Travel

    Plan trips between any town in Europe.

    Travel - Booking

    CheapTickets

    Can't book, but you can view your itineraries.

    Kayak.com

    Travel Meta-Search engine is really cool.

    Orbitz

    Flight status, itineraries, hotel finder, and contact info.

    Travel - Trip Planning

    Hop Stop

    Public Transportation in DC, NYC, SF, Boston, and Chicago

    NextBus

    Satellite tracking tells you when the next bus will arrive.

    Portland Transit Tracker

     

    WebWatch

     

    Worldwide Travel Info

     

    Weather

    Animated Weather

    PDA Animated Weather - Not only can you get the weather, but the satellite images are animated and zoomable. 

    WeatherBug

     

    Weather Channel

    Get your US weather here by zip, or city/state.

    Weather Network

    Get your international forecasts here.

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  • 04-01-2008 1:36 PM In reply to

    • Simeon
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    Re: Mobile-Optimized Sites: A List

    Can we post the Cab File that uploads all of these sites directly to the forum or do we have to use a link?

     

    Simeon
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  • 04-01-2008 3:48 PM In reply to

    • Bill Fisher
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    Re: Mobile-Optimized Sites: A List

    Our in-house guru Alex D. has located the Cab file that will install this entire list on your Windows Mobile phone! Simply download the file, copy it to your phone, and run it from File Explorer.

    Click to download webfavs.cab

     

     

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  • 04-02-2008 7:43 AM In reply to

    • Shawn
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    Re: Mobile-Optimized Sites: A List

    A great list- is it possible to get some of the larger banks (and smaller) added to it.  One of the biggest call drivers for this call center are customers trying to go to their regular banking sites and not being able to log in. Thanks.

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  • 04-04-2008 10:08 AM In reply to

    Re: Mobile-Optimized Sites: A List

    I've got an Excel sheet that I keep in the store which has 150+ links, plus mobilemammoth.com has a new mobile site daily.

     I'm converting it right now to HTML, and I will post it later.

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  • 04-06-2008 8:39 PM In reply to

    Re: Mobile-Optimized Sites: A List

     Where is a good description of how to create .cab files? MSDN link?  My search-fu is weak.

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  • 04-09-2008 10:18 AM In reply to

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    Re: Mobile-Optimized Sites: A List

    I'm not an expert, but I was able to find some documentation and a download link publicly available on Microsoft.com here:

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310618

     

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  • 04-12-2008 7:55 AM In reply to

    Re: Mobile-Optimized Sites: A List

    great!  I've been out sick, so this is something I can work on this week.

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  • 04-15-2008 1:01 AM In reply to

    Re: Mobile-Optimized Sites: A List

    Here's some off the top of my head.

    A far bigger issue for me is blogs that are not mobile-optimized. Where the sidebar tromps all over their posts, or simply comes first.

    Mine specifically was coded to be mobile-optimized: www.chrisrue.com

    Even Mr. Mobile himself, Jason Langridge, doesn't have a mobile-optimized blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonlan/

     

    Chris Rue
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  • 05-01-2008 6:05 PM In reply to

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    Re: Mobile-Optimized Sites: A List

    There are a number of sites at http://www.marquisms.com/links/ that are not on this list.  One I use frequently is NOAA's weather site at http://mobile.srh.weather.gov/.  The list also has a good number of streaming media sites listed.

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  • 05-01-2008 6:28 PM In reply to

    • Laura Rooke
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    Re: Mobile-Optimized Sites: A List

    Welcome Mark.

     

    Thanks for these links.

    Laura Rooke
    MVP - Mobile Devices
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  • 05-02-2008 2:20 AM In reply to