Posts Tagged with ‘mobile-browsing’

A Day in the Life of the Tech Middle Class

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

My initial reaction to Steven Hodson's post about the digital divide between the haves and the have nots has stuck with me, but apparently, 10 days is too long for it to have remained in the attention-deficit world of the Twitterati. The gap between the designers and the intended users is growing ever wider, and you have to wonder if the eventual fate of Web 2.0 won't be a result of the chasm in the middle.
Personally, this week has been [...]

Make Them Come Back: You Need a Usable Site and Fast Support Responses

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

I have a constant flow of apps in my inbox and in Firefox tabs, waiting to see if they are worth a review. Most of the time, when an app is unusable or has major bugs, I just delete it and move on. But I had two apps in a row last week that this happened with, and I realized it's a symptom of a larger problem with many Web 2.0 start-ups.
The two apps I tried using were SyncWizard and [...]

Rocketshotz - Easy Mobile Browsing

Phil Butler

I am not a cell phone guru, but if you don't have an iPhone (or even if you do) - Rocekshotz is a cool service that can help you approximate one for free. Rocketshotz sets up a user's favorite mobile sites and transfers them to their phone in an “iPhone-like start page”. The Atlanta company started as a pet project to bring PC capability to the developer's cell. Rocketshotz is a cool tool for on-the-go users that reduces the needless [...]