Monday, July 02, 2007

Apple buys Iphone.com

IPhone.com is a total of 13 keytaps (excluding the .com), which is the equivalent of dialing a (10-digit) long-distance phone number along with a 3-digit extension.

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Shortcut to Youtube and Facebook mobile

Go to 94287468.com in your mobile browser for one-tap access to Youtube mobile and Facebook mobile. What does 94287468(.com) spell? It's the wordnumber - the numerical equivalent - of WHATSHOT(.com). 94287468.com is one of many thousand mobile portals operated by WordDial.

In the case of Facebook and Youtube, you can cut your key tapping on your mobile in half by using dot com wordnumbers.

There isn't any guarantee how long these shortcuts on WordDial's 'what's hot' portal will last, so here's another shortcut you might want to remember: 32232665.com, which spells FACEBOOK and goes directly to the Facebook mobile home page.

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Sunday, July 01, 2007

Worddial's 732724.com (SEARCH) page gets cleaned up

WordDial has just cleaned up its 732724.com portal, perhaps one of its most visited portals (92466.com, the dot com wordnumber to YAHOO, resolves to it). Before this weekend, the three top slots were all reserved for different Google mobile urls, but now there's just one Google mobile address.

What's more interesting is the differences in the URLs (and the TLDs) of the links.
The link to Google is 'www.google.com'
The link to Yahoo is 'yahoo.mobi'
The link to Live search is 'mobile.live.com/Search'
The top search engine companies are more-or-less promoting different URLs than those listed above. On Google's site, users are encouraged to visit 'mobile.google.com,' however on a different part of the site Google promotes the shorter url: 'google.com'. On Yahoo's site, it encourages using 'm.yahoo.com'. Live is, however, the only consistent one; on mobile.search.live.com it lists 'mobile.live.com/search' as the mobile url.

A shortcut to Google on your mobile is 466453.com.

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