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Is Web 2.0 on your Mobile Phone?

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief February 19, 2008 · 2 min read

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A lot of people (including me) are claiming that the next wave will be on the mobile phone. With faster wireless connectivity and high adoption rate, the mobile web may become the next top destination for everybody.

It is even starting now without many of us noticing it. Is Web 2.0 on your mobile phone? Apparently yes. How much of it is on our phone now depends on our needs and lifestyles. Let me share mine:

Gmail for Mobile. I consolidate most of my email accounts to GMail {see tutorial here} so Gmail Mobile is the most often used application on my phone.
Yahoo! Go 2.0. It’s cool. If only it would run faster on my phone, I’d use it more often. I suppose they’d fix this on Yahoo! Go 3.0 soon. Flickr Mobile is integrated there too.
Netvibes Mobile. I used it on my desktop as a primary start-page and RSS reader. It’s also available on my mobile phone. And it degrades very well for the iPod Touch/iPhone as well as regular mobile screens and even the wider screens.

There’s Mobile YouTube but I rarely use it. I also don’t use Flickr so I haven’t use the mobile version as well. There are the VOIP types as well like Skype Mobile and Fring. And yeah, I used Twitter Mobile once or twice before but not Friendster. If you’re a heavy Nokia user, there’s Widsets in there too.

So, what Mobile Web 2.0 apps are you using?

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Abe Olandres

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and is considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines.

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20 Comments

karla · 18 years ago

@BryanB
Hmmm, interesting
Reminds me of Nostalgia Manila

Miguel · 18 years ago

S60 3.2 on the N96/N78 will have Web Run-Time – Nokia’s native widgets. Go write some apps!

The Jolly Jetsetter · 18 years ago

An interactive and personalized web and mobile lifestyle is the future. As much as I am integrated in terms of technology, I feel that the real benefit to us as users will come with the emergence of good, focused advertising. Look into companies like Ad-Phone, ZAD, Google, etc. They are taking (haha, stealing!) our user preferences and developing a more personalized approach to the content we view. We may think we hate receiving advertisements, but when the web and mobile can show me links to articles, information, product sales, etc. on items that I am interested in or MAY be interested in, while I am going about my mobile and web integrated professional/personal life…well I see a whole new way of looking at the phone and computer.

earncow · 18 years ago

I’m using opera mini as my browser

BrianB · 18 years ago

Segue pls. Anyone nows who is blogging this?

http://not-so-recent-manila.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.html

Great site.

Nick Nichols · 18 years ago

Gmail mobile; Twitter mobile.

The “track” feature of Twitter ONLY works on mobile. Also direct twits go to my mobile so I always get them immediately. Track is almost indispensable. E.g. during the manila pen thingy I tracked “magdalo” and got bunches of updates direct to my cellpone as I was in transit in taxi. I always track “philippines” and get both news and interesting miscellaneous twits. I’m working a project on Panay so I track “panay” for now. Great way to stay in touch with what’s happening.