Yesterday, the Yahoo! Mobile team released their list of the top 10 mobile searches users made in 2008. Topping the list was MySpace, followed by Facebook and Craigslist.
If you want (or need) to follow the latest action in March Madness, check out the NCAA Tournament mobile website, brought to you by Yahoo!: The direct URL from your mobile phone is: http://m.yahoo.com/ncaa.
Update: For the most current data (all of 2008), please see Top Mobile Websites for 2008. Last September, I reported on the top 20 mobile websites that readers of my mobile website list (Cantoni.mobi) were clicking on. Since six months have gone by, I thought it was a perfect time for an update. Today I present the “top 30” mobile websites as recorded on Cantoni.mobi. These results are captured by my MyBlogLog community widget which reports on not just page views, but links clicked http://www.massagemetro.com/shop/ exiting the site. The same caveat applies: any mobile browser with Javascript either disabled or…
This is the second installment of my quest to install simulators on my Windows XP system for all the major smartphone platforms. Yesterday we covered the BlackBerry simulator; today we’ll tackle the Palm OS version of the Treo. The first step will be to the Palm developer center. If you don’t already have a free developer account, register for one now. (It’s necessary to download any of the simulators.) Since we’re covering devices based on Palm OS, I’ll pick the latest which is the Centro smartphone. Palm offers a simulator for each device, so follow these steps to get the…
In order to accurately test mobile websites on a variety of devices, you either need to buy a bunch of phones (if you’re a big developer and can afford it), or go the cheap route and rely on device simulators from the manufacturers. In order to better understand how Cantoni.mobi looks and behaves, I’m going to install all the major simulators I can find and document the steps along the way. To get rolling with the testing of BlackBerry devices, we’ll start at the BlackBerry Developer Program and find the page for BlackBerry Developer Tools. There are two different software…