LinkedIn launch Mobile Version
February 25, 2008
LinkedIn have finally launched it’s mobile version of the service. The beta product includes a version specially optimised for the iPhone and is available immediately in English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese with additional languages to follow.
Mobile features include
- Search LinkedIn profiles (including photos and bio) to help recall and connect with business acquaintances at events and conferences
- Research the common contacts they have with other professionals to help make real world referrals and introductions easier
- Invite professional acquaintances and peers you meet at events to LinkedIn with just their email address. Exchanging business cards is just not cool anymore!
- Receive regular Network update capabilities about your connections while on the go
- International versions currently launched include French, German, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese. More to follow.
Just point your mobile browser at http://m.linkedin.com
XBOX Live Friends Application for the iPhone
February 22, 2008
This iPhone application allows you to check in on your fellow XBOX 360 gamers from just about anywhere. From 1337pwn this application can display gamer scores and online status for your friends list.
Features
- View Gamer Score, Online Status, and Game Info
- Send a message via XBOX Live by tapping on the gamer picture
- Tap on their last played game for game information
- Edit your list of gamers at any time
- Purpose built for mobile Safari web browsers
Point your iPhone’s browser at http://1337pwn.com/iphone.php to get going
Send picture text messages with your iPhone
February 21, 2008
Want to send picture Text messages from your iPhone? well a service called pktpix lets you do that with either your iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry or any other with Internet capabilities.
Simply pick the photo you want to send as an email, enter your friends phone number, followed by @pktpix.com and send your message.
I’ve looked through the website for a cost on this service but it doesn’t give one, but also it doesn’t say it’s free, I checked the FAQ’s on the site to make sure that your friends do not get spammed with ads, and it states quite categorically that they don’t. For more information on the service visit pktpix. I gave it a try with my iPhone and it worked fine.
Photoblogging with twitxr
February 17, 2008
Twitxr is like Twitter but with pictures and geolocalization. The idea is, you take a picture with your iPhone or other mobile device, you write something related to the picture and this picture gets posted on the Twitxr site for your followers to view.
The photo will also then be posted as a link into your twitter stream and onto your facebook account as well.
With a Jailbroken iPhone you can use the client, which can be easily installed through installer.app, you should find it under the networks tab.
They are currently working on other mobile platforms such as the Symbian and Android, and the API is public so anyone can develop a client.
Try it out for yourselves here
blogTV goes mobile
February 6, 2008
Video Streaming service blogTV has launched it’s mobile platform.
Starting today we are providing LIVE interactive video feeds for mobile handsets (http://m.blogtv.com ). For the first time mobile handset owners will be able to watch User Generated content, happening LIVE! The live content that is being produced and broadcasted on blogTV.com is available for free, without any installation of software, for all major mobile carriers, worldwide.
Here is a short Demo
“ON-AIR EVERYWHERE”, LIVE content that is happening now should be available everywhere and with minimal technical barriers. Our mission is to find new, innovative and convenient ways in which to access creative outlets, thereby making it simple to both watch and broadcast life, LIVE, in all its glory.
We see this as a great way for content creators to distribute their content and for the Entertainment, music industry and other brands to reach their audience wherever they are, Live!
Type m.blogTV.com on your mobile browser to watch the live streams. Here is a list of compatible mobile phones
A New And Improved YouTube For Mobile
January 25, 2008
YouTube has announced the official debut of YouTube for Mobile, featuring a new and improved mobile website, m.youtube.com the new improvements include…
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Millions of videos: YouTube for Mobile now features tens of millions of videos, which includes most of the videos already available on YouTube.com and your own uploaded videos.
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Community on the go: You can now access your YouTube account, your Favorites, your own uploaded Videos and your favorite Channels. You can also share, rate, and comment directly from the mobile website to other YouTube users.
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Mobile phone uploads available within moments: Now if you upload videos from your phone to YouTube via email/mms, they will appear within moments on both m.youtube.com and www.youtube.com. This means you can easily share videos you capture on your phone with your friends and family. All you need to do is create a mobile profile at www.youtube.com/mobile.
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Global: Global: YouTube for Mobile is available and localized for the UK, Italy, France, Spain, Netherlands, Poland, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, New Zealand, Germany, and Russia.
In addition, they are also releasing a beta version of a downloadable application. It’s different from the YouTube for Mobile website (m.youtube.com) because it is a Java (J2ME) application you install on your phone, whereas m.youtube.com you access via your phone’s web browser. The app is available in US and UK English and supports the following phones:
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Sony Ericsson k800, w880
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Nokia e65, n95, n73, 6110 navigator and 6120 classic
To download the app, simply point your phone browser to m.youtube.com and if your phone’s one of the above, you should be prompted to download and install the application.
Skype to Support Voice and Video Calls on Intel Mobile Devices
January 25, 2008
At the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today, Skype announced its plans to collaborate with Intel Corporation to develop a new mobile Skype™ experience for Mobile Internet Devices (MID) based on Intel low-power processors and chipsets. MIDs are a new category of small, truly mobile consumer devices enabling a PC-like Internet experience, coupled with the capability to communicate with others, enjoy entertainment, and access information on the go.
The collaboration builds on the ease of use of Skype software and makes that experience mobile. MID users will be able to make Skype voice and video calls and send instant messages on the move, while harnessing the performance of Intel’s new ultra-mobile platform. MID devices with WiMAX and WiFi capabilities will enable free Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls and cheap SkypeOut™ calls – calls from Skype to landline and mobile phone numbers anywhere in the world at low per-minute rates – to be made on open wireless networks.
“Many of the more than 246 million Skype users around the world are increasingly mobile and want to stay connected on the go,” said Gareth O’Loughlin, Skype’s general manager of mobile and hardware devices. “Making the richer Skype experience available on mobile devices partly hinges on the need for more processing power, which in turn tends to shorten battery life. Intel’s focus on lowering power consumption helps us minimize that conundrum, underscoring our evolution beyond the desktop. And it‘s good news to anyone who has found themselves missing Skype on the road.”
Skype will enable its software to run on the small, thin and light ultra-mobile MID devices with touch-screen LCDs, which are powered by Mobile Internet Linux. With the performance offered by Intel’s low-power processors and chipsets, some MID devices will even support mobile video calls over Skype.
“The emergence of Mobile Internet Devices represents an exciting new user experience,” said Pankaj Kedia, Director of Global Ecosystem Programs for the Ultra-Mobility Group at Intel Corporation. “Intel’s low-power technologies, combined with Skype’s optimized software, will enable MID users to easily stay in touch with their family and friends wherever they go.”
Skype is working with Intel to deliver its application software on the Mobile Internet Linux platform through Original Device Manufacturers (ODMs) and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). By bundling the Skype software on their devices, consumer electronics manufacturers can provide consumers with a rich internet communications experience – instant messaging, group chat, voice and video calls – right out of the box.
The first implementation of the Skype software for Mobile Internet Linux on Intel-based MID products is expected to be made available during the first half of 2008.
photobucket goes mobile
January 15, 2008
Photobucket, the image sharing site has announced it’s own mobile site. You can access this by going to http://m.photobucket.com from your mobile device
With this service you will be able to;
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View photos in your album
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Upload photos and videos from your camera phone
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Share Photos and videos from your camera phone
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Search Photobuckets library for photos and graphics
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View tagged photos and find related images
For more information go here
MoFuse gets an update
January 15, 2008
Mofuse, the people who allow content publishers to create RSS driven mobile sites have announced some new updates designed to give the user more power and control.
Here’s the full list of new features now available taken from Mofuse
Automatic Image Resizing
If you have any images in your RSS feed or on your static pages that is greater than 150 pixels wide, MoFuse will automatically resize the image and make it smaller to be better viewed on a mobile screen!
Note: You can turn this feature off under the Settings tab on your mobile site dashboard
Mobile Site Homepage
Now all MoFuse users can edit their mobile site homepage and add text. MoFuse professional users can add images, text-styling and links to this page using our WYSIWYG page editor!
This can be used for a welcome message or you can just create a mobile site with just a homepage full of anything you want without making users click on a menu link! You can also set this to be displayed on every page if you wish.
Outbound Links
Before you could only add 2 things to your mobile site menu, a static page and an RSS feed. Now you can add any link to anywhere on the web!
If the site you’re linking to isn’t mobile-friendly – they have partnered with Mowser, a mobile transcoding company, to ensure that every link on every MoFuse mobile site is now mobile-friendly (more to come on this partnership later). So go ahead – link away! The entire web is now mobile-friendly and you can link to it all!
QR Codes
We’ve had a QR Code generator for a while now located at http://qrcode.mofuse.com/ but it was never actually integrated with MoFuse mobile sites, until now. Now every MoFuse mobile site is automatically given a QR Code that all of our users can access right from their mobile site dashboard!
Increased Branding – The SMS Widget (MoFuse Professional)
Professional users that make use of our SMS widget will notice that the MoFuse logo has been removed from the popup box and has been replaced with your mobile site’s logo! Now your users really won’t even know you’re using a third-party for your mobile site!
Full branding from start to finish for MoFuse Professional accounts!
Live Support
We’ve added a button to our Help and Support page for Live Support chat. If you got an urgent question, check our Help and Support page and see if a member of our support team is online and available to help you instantly!
Zoho app for the iPhone
January 10, 2008
Zoho have released a new web app for the iPhone. This app lets you view existing documents in your account as well ass regular Word processing and Spreadsheet Functions.
The app also gives you the ability to view and enter data in the database application.
This is now listed under Productivity Applications section on Apple’s iPhone website.
