Ripping mobility from the clutches of telecom
Mobile Portals
This is something that was mentioned at Mobile 2.0 a few times as well: there should be a mobile portal of the same form as the early Yahoo directory when it was still pages of links. We’ve been working on a mobile portal called TapTap at AdMob. It’s probably the right phase to have something of the sort, but I could be wrong. Only time and consumer usage will tell. Thing is, there are so many mobile portals already I wonder if what the world needs is really another one. Here’s a list of the ones I’ve been poking at, in the hopes that a little cross-pollination will help out a bit:
- Mowser links
- Find.mobi
- YesWAP
- TapTap
- Dir.mobi
- Mobileplay
- Mippin
- Esty.mobi
- mDog bookmarks
- The Casual Traveler
- iGloo.mobi
- Zero Rubbish
- Cantoni.org
- Apple webapps
- Tappity
- PocketOptimized
- PDAPortal
- Skweezer directory
- PdaMobileWeb
- miniSPHERE
- WAP.com
- PhoneFavs
- MilkMore
- wapSwap
If you’ve got others (particularly others of note) please leave me a comment.
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about 2 years ago
This is great, thanks Mike!
about 2 years ago
Thanks for the list Mike. I am in Tappity but a few more links won’t hurt :-)
about 2 years ago
http://www.clasificatos.mobi, Mobile Information about news, traffic, weather, twitter’s channels, etc … only in spanish.
Thank’s
about 2 years ago
http://sphere.mobicosm.com/ – another one I’ve seen
about 2 years ago
We are building another portal at wirenode.mobi , if you have any tips please let us know. Primaryly, there will be sites created in our editor at http://www.wirenode.com
about 2 years ago
Thanks for adding miniSPHERE to your list. I think it is worth noting that while the list of mobile websites is still small enough to be manageable by humans, that is quickly changing now that the adoption rate of web-enabled smartphones is on the rise. Thank Apple for that.
In order to accommodate the rise, Mobicosm has added popSPHERE to the lineup. popSPHERE is a peer production catalog of mobile websites. Our users can now add and share mobile websites on popSPHERE, plus add them to their miniSPHERE homepage.
about 2 years ago
One more to add, FROG, at http://www.getfrog.com. Incredibly easy to customize and surf mobile sites on your phone.
Thanks for the list…
about 2 years ago
Frog seems to be some kind of private site, I wouldn’t consider it a portal at all. Or am I missing something about the way it works?
about 2 years ago
Wapmat at http://www.wapmat.com is portal and search directory with a nice collection of sites optimized for mobile phones
about 2 years ago
PDAtuner.com – directory of mobile compatible radio stations on Windows Media and mp3 formats