Well it is Friday night and I had another week of travelling. This week I was down at the Chirp Conference (first developers conference for Twitter) in San Francisco. The team at TechCrunch did a great job of covering the conference, here are some articles to check out if you have not already:
– Twitter has 105,779,710 Registered Users, Adding 300K A Day
– Twitter Adds Places To Its Geo-Tweets, Just Don’t Call It A Check-In
– Live From Chirp: Twitter’s Platform Roadmap
– Ev Explains Twitter’s Move Into Mobile Apps: “Otherwise We Are Failing Users”
So enough about Chirp, this has been covered extensively this week.
While I am waiting for my wife I was playing with my iPhone, actually wishing I had an iPad (after the Chirp conference and speaking to a number of people about their iPads, I am convinced that I need to buy one, but that for another day). Back to my iPhone – I was playing with Mobile Web, not iPhone applications and I got to wondering about the Mobile Web experiences for Canadians?
So here is what I did.
I visited the following sites through my Safari browser on my phone. Google.ca, YellowPages.ca, Yahoo.ca, and 411.ca. I tried to visit yelp.ca, but it gave me their actual website, not their mobile enhanced so they are not included.
I then entered the exact search term “restaurants toronto” for each site and was presented with their results. The screenshots below are the results page for each of the above websites. Check them out yourself.
So here is what I want to know? Based on the screenshots below for the search “restaurants toronto” and nothing but the screenshots below, which mobile application provides the best results? I am going to leave it as best results, you decide whether best results mean content, look and feel or brand loyalty.
In alphabetical order:
411.ca
Google Web
Yahoo Web
YellowPages.ca
One more screenshot from an application that I am testing on my iPhone (it is not available to the general public yet) called Urbanizer, mood based searching. This application is going to rock. You can subscribe to get notified when it is available in the app store.
Urbanizer
If we are missing your favorite mobile web application, put the URL in the comments, I would be happy to add it to this post.