iPhone this, iPod Touch that, BlackBerry and Google Android apps galore, but where is the Windows Mobile love? Well, it is certainly not to be forgotten as the Samsung i770, HTC Touch Pro and Samsung Omnia are all being sold in stores this December, and all of them are powered by Windows Mobile. With those users in mind, here are over 20 top free apps to get the most out of the Windows Mobile operating system. What are some of your favorite Windows Mobile applications? Let us know in the comments! Games Death Drive - Who doesn’t love a little vehicular...
Although text messaging is still one of the favorite pastimes for children and adults alike, software firm, Geodesic believes mobile instant messaging will cannibalize SMS and become the de facto form of communication through cell phones going forward. Because of that, the company offers a tool called Mundu IM, which recently entered its fourth iteration. The software provides users with an IM service over AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, and Jabber with collaboration across the Web and wireless devices. Mundu IM is currently supported on most mobile phones running Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Palm OS, and Java platforms....
According to a new report by Accenture, a large number of Millennials (those born between 1977 and 1997), expect their companies to accommodate their IT preferences, including their preferred computers and applications. More than a third of Millennials also indicated that they were dissatisfied with the technologies their employers currently provide. Among other things, Millennials would prefer to use instant messaging, text messaging, and RSS feeds to communicate with their clients and customers, though very few companies currently support these technologies. The report also highlights that a lot of employees are simply bypassing corporate IT departments if those don't offer...
Happy Friday! James here from mjelly.com with another Mobile 2.0 Service of the Week - this time we are going to look at HeySan - which hardly anyone knows about in the mobile industry but is getting pretty big and can teach us a lot about how to build a mobile web service with massive traction and stickiness. What is it? Heysan is a mobile web interface to all the major instant messaging services including MSN, AIM, Yahoo!, Google Talk, Myspace IM and soon the new facebook messaging system. Heysan means “Hello” in Swedish and funnily enough it was founded...
Meebo, the company that powers social interaction through instant messaging and group chat on its site and partner sites, has partnered with Hearst Magazines Digital Media, a unit of Hearst Magazines. Seventeen.com and Popularmechanics.com are two of the digital media properties that are integrating Meebo’s chat and instant messaging services to drive user traffic on the sites, strengthen online communities and increase revenue. “The key thing is that Hearst wants to increase engagement on their site, and Meebo has ridiculous engagement. When users load up a Meebo room, they stay in it for thirteen minutes. We have widgets that get...
Yesterday the FriendFeed team announced integration with instant messaging services that allows users to send updates to FriendFeed right from the IM dialogue and also see and reply to new comments on their posts and be updated when new items are posted by friends. At this stage the FriendFeed IM only works with Google Talk or other Jabber-based IMs but knowing how busy FriendFeed team usually is I’d expect other IM protocols to be added in the near future. What I particularly like is that FriendFeed allows you to choose exactly how busy you want the chat window to become...
Here we are in 2008, more Web-connected than ever. It’s pretty great, right? You betcha. The ease, the speed, the mobility. To quote a famous young lad, “Please sir, can I have some more?” It’s good to take a breather once in a while, though, and to have a look up and down the Main St of this media-rich, socially-enhanced cloud we live a good part of our lives inside. One item I often think about on such occasions, this time triggered by a post by Jennifer Laycock at Search Engine Guide, is the manner with which we manage our...
Filed under: Internet, WindowsI've blogged about it before, and I'll blog about it again.Back when I was just a wee lad of the Internet, I found a most wonderful concept: instant messaging! At the time, I thought MSN Messenger was the coolest thing since the automatic bread slicer. Of course, my best friend preferred Yahoo! Messenger, and the majority of everyone else I knew would use nothing but AOL Instant Messenger. So, I had two choices: have three relatively bloated instant messaging running simultaneously on my computer, or lose electronic touch with the rest of the world. That is, until...
The first-ever pan-Asian internet entrepreneur conference Open Web Asia took place on October 14 in Seoul, Korea. It was very well-attended with people from many countries, such as Taiwan, China, Japan, Singapore, and Korea. There were many surprises, from the high standard of dress in the audience, many suits and ties and almost no jeans and t-shirts, to the extremely high quality of expertise of the speakers and panelists. The OpenWeb.Asia Workgroup deserves great credit for putting on a fabulous and well-organized show. There were four panels during the session: Insights and Best Practices, Innovations in Asia, Collaboration, and East...
After almost two months, the perpetually dysfunctional MobileChat has finally released an update to its instant messaging iPhone app. And you know what? It’s too late. I waited forever for an update and now I don’t care. MobileChat had the opportunity to own cross-platform instant messaging on the iPhone. When it launched at the beginning of August, its primary competition came from apps called Palringo and IM+. They’re both free and passable applications, but each suffered from far-from-ideal interfaces and a range of other faults. Palringo, for example, pointlessly forced users to sign up for Palringo accounts, while IM+ tended...
Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, E-mail, Freeware, Browser Tips, BrowsersDoes it frustrate you that even though you can add HTML links in the content of your email when creating it in Gmail, you can't add an HTML link to your signature? It sure frustrates me. Many webmail services have very limited signature editors, making it difficult to create a compelling signature. If you would like to use more than just plain text in your signature for your webmail account, give WiseStamp a try. WiseStamp is a Firefox add-on that gives you a rich text editor to create your email signature,...
For those who regularly use instant messaging services like Yahoo! Instant Messenger and Microsoft's MSN Messenger, you know that IM spam arrived long ago and shows no signs of leaving. Yesterday, however, I received my first Skype spam. Lucky me. Unfortunately, I'm not alone. Skype spam is on the rise. ......
There are literally millions of voices on the Internet. Blogs, Social networks, micromessaging services like Twitter, instant messaging services, email, wikis, forums, and dozens of technologies I haven’t even heard of – and dozens more to come – give us all an unprecedented ability to be heard. But with all those voices clamoring for attention, how do you stand out from the crowd? More importantly, once you get someone’s attention, how can you keep it? How can you show that it is your voice, out of the jabbering multitude, that’s worth listening to? In short, how do you appear...
This is a guest post by Grand Effect member David Peralty of College Crunch. If you enjoy this post, please be sure to give College Crunch a look when you’re done for more of his awesome work! The social aspect of community is changing so rapidly, where we once had to seek people out at their homes, or on their phones, the conversation has moved to a myriad of online services where visual or verbal communication is a rarity, but is this type of constant connection with others helping or hindering our sense of community? Old School Tools,...
I recently received an alpha test invitation from chi.mp to try out their new service: "The dashboard for your digital life," which offers "The simple way to manage your online life, on a domain of your very own." So, I established my own domain, "markdixon.mp," populated my profile with links to the social networking sites I frequent (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), my blogs and websites, and the instant messaging services I use. This site allows me to provide some measure of integration among the different facets of my Internet presence, and gives me quite a bit of flexibility in exposing which...
