I am home and catching up on all of my posting. First, I promised to post the URLS from the Planning for a Mobile Future keynote.
Sites that offer mobile verions (by detecting what you’re using):
- TV Guide
- NWS
- Hoovers
- PubMed
Tools to shrink a page to fit on a mobile device (disclaimer – you may lose important info by using these services)
- Iyhi
- Skweezer
Web 2.0 Mobile Sites:
- Mobilicious
“Mobilicio.us is a ‘mashup’ that combines the del.icio.us online bookmarking service with Google’s Mobile Search tool.” - Splash Blog
Mobile picture blogging
Sites to download Mobile tools from:
Mobile Answers Sites:
- 4info
- Medio
- Answers.com
Who says on their site that they are in the pre-search business not the research business - Google SMS
- Synfonic
- AskMeNow
Reference by SMS is a service specifically for libraries which gives the library a cell number than can be texted – allowing them to recieve reference questions via email. (LibrarianInBlack wrote about this service back in November). Other options include Teleflip (which Meredith recommends) and Vazu which let you send text messages from their sites.
Learn more:
Megan’s presentation can be found online on Monday.
