Mobile application roundup: updates, Craigslist, mobile video and navigation

Three great services either updated or arrived on mobile today. The multi-purpose Craigslist has launched an app for Blackberry. Mobile video service Vimeo (which GoMo uses for it’s video interviews) has created a mobile optimised site. And navigation service TomTom has released a big iPhone update
Craigslist comes to Blackberry
Equal parts notorious and just plain famous, [...]

Going mobile gets faster with Mobify 2.0 update

Mobify is one of a breed of services called “mobilizers”. It’s a method of creating a mobile web page from an existing on-line one. It’s an automatic service - Mobify subscribers simply use the web-hosted visual interface to transcode their page. Now Mobify has announced a host of new features with Mobify 2.0

Need a gun quick? GunBroker.com is now available on the mobile Internet

GunBroker.com claims to be the largest online site for guns and accessories auctions in the world. And now it’s looking to become the largest mobile site. It has launched http://m.gunbroker.com, which allows users to buy and sell firearms over their mobiles.

MoxieQ launches mobile entertainment site aimed at the gay community

MoxieQ is a digital entertainment publisher, which is dedicated to serving mobile content for the “gay point-of-view.” It has launched what it claims is the first mobile and online entertainment site aimed at the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community

MoxieQ creates it’s own short-form content exclusives aimed at the gay community -  like Test [...]

Namibia Tourism goes with dotMobi for its mobile Internet tourism site

Namibia Tourism has launched a mobile website with dotMobi to make Namibia more attractive to tourists. Created by mobile marketing company Yonder Media, the “Discover Namibia” mobi site contains information which will make visiting and exploring the country much easier.

The site has info on entry requirements to the country, advice on safe traveling, tours, the [...]

SingTel combines on-line and mobile Internet for digital lifestyle service

 
SingTel Digital Media has announced it’s first creation since it was unveiled in March: inSing.com. The service is a converged mobile and on-line Internet hub for people living in Singapore that will help people in or around Singapore to find out what there is to do in the city.

inSing.com focuses on lifestyle, shopping, food and entertainment, [...]

Prom Mobile?

Mobile marketing company QWASI(sorry never heard of you before today) has launched a new mobile application.
What is it?
Basically it is David’s Bridal Prom Mobile that allows girls to access the latest prom fashion from their mobile phone.
HOW?
David’s Bridal Store Finder
Teenagers- or anyone for that matter- can text the keyword “PROM” to 74362 to get content [...]

Phonevalley uses free SMS to promote PUMA Ocean Racing mobile site

Phonevalley, the mobile advertising and marketing arm of The Publicis Groupe, has created a mobile site for the PUMA Ocean Racing team. The PUMA team is competing in the Volvo Ocean Race, also known as the “Everest of Sailing”. Over nine months, the PUMA team will sail over 37,000 nautical miles between Alicante, Spain and [...]

Mobile recommendation site Buzzwire launches March Madness portal

Buzzwire, a mobile web recommendation site, is launching a new section dedicated to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament for March. The m.buzzwire.com mobile site will give users access to scores, video highlights, analysis, etc.

m.buzzwire.com beta launched in February, and lets users discover and share mobile web content in much the same way as recommendation sites [...]

Red Nose Day launches mobile internet site from Wapple for charity

Red Nose Day has gone mobile for the first time. Wapple has created the first Red Nose Day mobile website for Comic Relief, which is to go live today. To get there, you simply access rednoseday.com on a mobile device, and you’ll be automatically redirected to the mobile site.
The site will feature real-time news updates [...]

The Guardian invests more heavily in ad-funded mobile website

Guardian News & Media will be relaunching it’s mobile website next month to provide a faster, simplified service. GNM commercial director Adam Freeman said that a dramatic increase in mobile traffic had spurred the decision, with the opportunity to capitalise on advertising.
The mobile site, m.guardian.co.uk, will be ad-funded, in partnership with 4th Screen Advertising and [...]

Wapple annouces web applications with wapple architect

Wapple has announced Wapple Architect
What is it?

It enables developers to mobilize PC applications and create new mobile services.
From the press release:
“Architect is a ground breaking technology that integrates at the very heart of an existing web application, unlike transcoding systems,” explains Rich Holdsworth, CTO at Wapple.
“There is growing demand for good quality mobile applications and [...]

Mobile Web Europe: Marcus Ladwig - Chief Operating Officer Peperoni

Essence of comments from Marcus -
We are not VC funded - we are self-funded - we are profitable and we are a business model.
Mobile Social Network - peperoni

400,000,000 imressions
12,000 000 visitors
video downloads daily 100,000
clicks per visitor 33
What we think?
Is this true - is this for mobile only- I am not sure as there seems to [...]

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