Simon Willison recently created an interesting mashup Wikinear, combining Fire Eagle (Yahoo’s new location tracking service) and Wikipedia: It’s a simple site that does just one thing: show you a list of the five Wikipedia pages that are geographically closest to your current location. It’s designed (or not-designed) to be used mainly from mobile phones. The idea for the site came from living in Oxford for a year. The city is full of beautiful old historic buildings (many of them colleges), but very few of them are labelled or signposted. With wikinear.com and a GPS hooked up to Fire Eagle,…
A while ago a followed a link to an interesting e-book titled "Time Management for Creative People" by Mark McGuinness. I quickly printed a copy for reading at home and dropped it into the briefcase. Several weeks later (so much for time management), I finally read it last night and found a nice set of suggestions and ideas for better managing your "creative" time. The book brings together several suggestions in a nice combination, including task prioritization and to-do lists, blocking out your most creative time, and some concepts I hadn’t seen before like "do it tomorrow". If you find…
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…
If you haven’t yet seen the Explanations in Plain English series from Common Craft, you really need to go check them out. The latest in the series came out this week and it’s titled “Twitter in Plain English”. Common Craft has created a simple but effective presentation method using paper cut-outs and a whiteboard to explain technical topics.