Awakened Voice

The Associated Press has launched a new mobile news website optimized for the iPhone. I’ve been trying it out this morning and I’m finding the experience to be a good one.
The site integrates photo galleries and videos optimized for viewing in the iPhone. Users can set local news options and send stories via email or [...]

I’ve wanted a version of this blog that looked better on the iPhone or iPod Touch for some time now. I thought about using a third party service but then I would be relying on another domain just for iPhone users. I don’t want people to have to work any harder. So luckily I was [...]

In some circles the three weeks earlier spring ahead date here in the U.S. was being viewed as a potential doomsday for computer systems. As a Windows user I’ve been taking regular updates automatically so when I turned on my computer this morning the time showed up correctly. Not so for my Windows Mobile device.
My [...]

The time has come to get a new mobile phone. I’ve been reading plenty of articles on phones lately and must admit that I’m surprised at how far they have come over the last two years.
All of the top of the line phones accept flash memory cards up to 2GB. All of them play music [...]

My eyes first started to open up to the rapid development of online communities back in January of 2005 when I was researching the purchase of a new cell phone. While searching for information on a new device I came across a site called Howard Forums.
Run out of Toronto, Canada by Howard Chui, the [...]

I’ve been doing some research on the best way to consume RSS feeds on a mobile device. Dave Winer’s New York Times River is great but you only get summaries of the stories and when you click through it takes you to the NY Times regular website.
Dave has also taken a few select blogs and [...]

It seems that Dave Winer has been obsessed with social media on the go lately. First he set up some news rivers to make it easier to consume certain sites on mobile devices. Now he’s gone and launced a mobile blog posting tool.
YoMoBlog is a free, browser based tool that allows people to post to [...]

I’ve just installed a new plugin that creates a mobile friendly version of this blog.
I figured this was an appropriate time to do so since Dave Winer has been shedding more light on the mobile news experience with his new mobile “river of news” sites for the NY Times and BBC.
So if you want to [...]

SixApart, the folks who created TypePad and Movable Type have acquired Splashblog, a mobile photo blogging tool, according to Tech Crunch.
With the enhanced connectivity features seen on more recent mobile phones, ease of integration with blogs will surely be a differentiator between commercial blogging services.
[tags]Blogging, Mobile[/tags]