Linkedin is the latest big social network site to mobile enable itself. You can find the mobile friendly site at…
It would have been nice if they adopted the “m.” prefix to reduce the amount of tapping on a small keyboard or screen. But, oh well…
The real story here though is that once again the barebones display designed for WAP-ish devices like Windows Mobile that can’t deal with a rich web site design looks horrible compared to the much richer iPhone/iPod touch version. You can probably figure out which is which in the photo above. One is an iPod touch. The other is a T-Mobile Dash Windows Mobile 6 smartphone (amateur edition).
I work with a company called kwiry, a text message based reminder service. We’ve seen a lot of people using the service because mobile browsing is limited on so many phones and for so many sites.
kwiry lets you send a reminder (pay bills, check out a new album on amazon, etc.) via text message and stores that reminder online and in your email. That way you can remember these things while you’re out and about with your cell phone, and check them out later with a full keyboard and monitor. Thought some of your mobile-interested readers might want to check it out.
Thanks,
David
PS
I have an iphone and LinkedIn DEFINITELY looks better on it – you’re right on.