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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:

If you’ve got others (particularly others of note) please leave me a comment.

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12 Responses to “Mobile Portals”

  1. Gustaf Alstromer Says:
    October 19th, 2007 at 10:43 am

    This is great, thanks Mike!

  2. Johann Says:
    October 19th, 2007 at 3:05 pm

    Thanks for the list Mike. I am in Tappity but a few more links won’t hurt :-)

  3. Rafael Says:
    October 22nd, 2007 at 4:55 am

    http://www.clasificatos.mobi, Mobile Information about news, traffic, weather, twitter’s channels, etc … only in spanish.

    Thank’s

  4. Seong Says:
    October 29th, 2007 at 5:30 pm

    http://sphere.mobicosm.com/ - another one I’ve seen

  5. tomas Says:
    October 30th, 2007 at 4:45 pm

    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

  6. Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility » Blog Archive » Mobile Portal vs Everything Else Says:
    October 31st, 2007 at 10:40 am

    [...] posted a mobile portal list a little while ago. I’ve heard a lot of people in mobile say there needs to be [...]

  7. Cody Says:
    November 12th, 2007 at 2:21 pm

    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.

  8. Jennifer Says:
    February 15th, 2008 at 8:46 pm

    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…

  9. miker Says:
    February 15th, 2008 at 9:22 pm

    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?

  10. Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility » Blog Archive » Promoting your Mobile Version Says:
    March 3rd, 2008 at 4:37 pm

    [...] to just type in a site and expect it to work. So how do people find out about your mobile version? Portals are one way, and search is increasingly driving traffic. But directly promoting your site can also [...]

  11. kekec Says:
    March 10th, 2008 at 9:21 am

    Wapmat at http://www.wapmat.com is portal and search directory with a nice collection of sites optimized for mobile phones

  12. Tony Says:
    April 28th, 2008 at 7:12 am

    PDAtuner.com - directory of mobile compatible radio stations on Windows Media and mp3 formats

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