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WolframAlpha responds to the great mobile site slaying of ’09 [follow-up]

  • December 4, 2009 1:20 pm

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Yes folks, another follow-up. This time it’s the good boys and girls over at WolframAlpha, the intelligent, thinking search engine. If you recall, the big stink was raised yesterday when WA pulled their mobile optimized page leaving the normal page the sole solution for mobile users. To make matters worse, they made it so you were starring at a massive page filling ad encouraging you to purchase the $50 (yes that’s $50 with two digits to the left of the decimal) iPhone app. Well, there’s a problem with that. The app had to be clicked on to get around for starters. Other knocks include a sub-par browsing experience on the full version of the site via a mobile device. And finally, no mention of the change was posted on their blog, catching users off guard. ReadWriteWeb’s Frederic Lardinois got a chance to talk to WolframAlpha’s iPhone app product manager, Schoeller Porter. Porter defends the action saying…

Facebook gets new touch friendly mobile site: touch.facebook.com

  • October 22, 2009 11:59 am

Touchscreens and mobile apps are the big draw for mobile users in the here and now. With the wide range of handsets available worldwide, it’s impossible to create an app or special web page for every single one. It’s ok. No need to cry or lose sleep as your mobile social networking aspirations will be taken care via Facebook’s new page for mobiles: touch.facebook.com. As you can guess, this new portal is specifically tailored to touhscreen phones giving users overall larger and more finger friendly on screen navigation and objects to tap on. Whether or not you have a Facebook app of your own, it can’t hurt to try it out can it?