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Mobile Content Destination Sites

There seems to be a growing number of websites and mobile sites that help you organise and access internet content from your mobile browser.

From mocoNews.net — 3 has launched a website intended to be a community-built guide to mobile resources, available online (next.three.com) and on the mobile web (3next.mobi).

Unusually for Three, it’s open to outsiders and it contains links to the wild wild web, which means they’re positively encouraging some Three users to wander out of the walled garden.
Then there’s RubberSquid, which is: “Where Personal Wiki meets AI” and proposes that you “Bring your world to your mobile”. The AI part of it is in taking the Memo you’ve written and intelligently displaying it when you view it on your mobile. This is not a link or content aggregator
Tappity is a site I like, but rarely use on the mobile. I tend to hit it on a web browser, check out new sites then try to view them in a web browser. It should, however, be much more as it collects search engines for you in the same way that web browsers do (in the top right corner). At the moment, some improvements i’d like to see:

1. Displaying the URL – this would help make it clear that with sites like Gmail Lite you are using a third party site, and it’s not an official Google site.
2. Bookmarking from the phone. Especially if you could add from your phone browser bookmarks whilst browsing the mobile web.
3. Option to import bookmarks from Del.icio.us. Including the tags from Del.icio.us would be swell.

Just as Yahoo! was awesome as a directory for discovery and reference back in the day, 3neXt and Tappity could be a great means of sharing and discovering applications and sites in the “can’t-see-forest-for-trees” mobile web.

And it’s not quite Netvibes or iGoogle, I think it’s a pre-cursor. The mobile web is young enough to still need that wandering around and carelessly collecting before personalisation. A good collection model that doesn’t require too much maintenance.

[...] Following up in Mobile Content Destination Sites. Russell Beattie cast some doubt on the future of directories for mobile web sites and servies: 3. I really doubt the short-term viability of “directories” of content. Even just a few months ago, I thought there’d be a place for a list of good links out there, but I think the idea is quickly going away. Just like on the PC-based web, no one uses web site directories any more (Yahoo, Mozdir, etc.), and in as little as 6 months to a year, there will be so many mobile sites out there that there’ll be no use trying to make a usable directory either. [...]