Seattle based TrafficGauge offers a service for commuters that don't want to purchase their dedicated traffic device for $180, but do have a cellphone.
TrafficGauge for Mobile Web allows you to view real-time traffic on your cell phone using the web browser. This is a FREE service that gives you access to the detailed traffic conditions that you need for your commute.
To try it out, enter your cell phone number on this page and they will send you a text message containing a link to TrafficGauge. Follow the link to view the traffic map. Alternatively, you can access the service by typing the following URL into your phones browser: http://www.trafficgauge.com/cell.html
You can select from 18 cities including Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis, Phoenix, San Francisco and Seattle.
The map shows areas of HEAVY, MEDIUM, and LIGHT congestion. Areas without available traffic information are shown in GRAY.
If you have an iPhone, try TrafficGauge for iPhone.
This is a pretty useful site and as the phone browsers advance, the quality of service will improve significantly. City Guides / Maps are currently the 5th most popular category of use on the Mobile Web in the US behind Email, Weather, Search and Sports info.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Stuck in Traffic? Check Out TrafficGauge Mobile
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
AccuWeather.com Mobile Web Site Shatters Records in February
Here's more data to support the growth in mobile web usage:
February was a record-breaking month for the AccuWeather.com mobile web site. The site chalked up a new monthly record with 32,760,743 page impressions in February, beating the previous record of 31,643,961 set in January 2008. The mobile site also set a new record for daily impressions with 1,792,492 on February 12th, beating the previous record of 1,527,102 set in the same month on February 5th.
Already rated among the top ten mobile brands, AccuWeather.com delivers the most accurate and up-to-date weather on the mobile web. AccuWeather.com recently released a new version of the mobile web site, enhanced with severe weather warnings, AccuWeather 15-Day and Hour-by-Hour local forecasts, weather news and blogs.
“AccuWeather.com appreciates the loyalty of our mobile users in achieving this milestone,” said Jim Candor, AccuWeather.com’s Senior Vice President of New Media. “We look forward to continuing to deliver valuable weather information to break these new records in the coming months.”
To check out the site, simply type accuweather.com into your mobile browser.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Useful Mobile Site - PhoneFavs
MobileInfocenter unveiled a new mobile web portal back in early December and we've been meaning to tell you about it. Created specifically for smartphones and mobile devices, PhoneFavs is the first social bookmarking system completely designed and optimized for mobile phone users. The free service enables users to keep an always-available list of bookmarks for web sites that can be easily viewed on a mobile browser.
With PhoneFavs, users can store, organize and share bookmarks and access them on any device, anywhere. PhoneFavs' simple homepage serves as a gateway to PhoneFav's three main services: online bookmarks or Favs, a handpicked mobile link directory, and a "mobilizer" which automatically adapts standard web pages for improved viewing on smaller screen devices.
Visit on your phone at: pfavs.com, and you will immediately get access to over 300 bookmarked mobile sites across a number of categories including News, Tech/Biz, Movies, Shopping Weather, Local, and Fun & Leisure.
You can find some pretty interesting mobile sites including Funontherun where you can read Tongue Twisters, find new Jokes and see funny pictures, all optimized for the small screen.
In addition, through a partnership with Movaya, you can now find and buy games for your phone through the PhoneFavs portal as well.
Next time you're on the mobile web, point your phones browser to pfavs.com and have a look around.
Monday, January 07, 2008
ESPN's Mobile Site Has More Traffic Than Its PC Pages
For those of you that still doubt whether the mobile web has arrived, I would suggest that you read this article from Advertising Age.
You can probably determine the news by the title of this post, but basically multiple times this season, ESPN's mobile NFL content outdrew its PC NFL content.
"We're having extraordinary growth on ESPN.com's NFL pages, but we're also seeing extraordinary usage with mobile devices as well," said Ed Erhardt, president-ESPN ABC Sports customer marketing and sales, calling mobile "a big part of the future as it relates to how fans are going to consume sports."
This is the kind of news that puts a smile on my face.
