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Amazon’s the latest iPhonized webapp I accidentally ran into… there are some flaws though…f.e. while you can certainly buy products while on-the-go, it’s not possible to maintain your wishlist for future consideration. deep-links to products on the amazon-mainpage aren’t redirected to the mobile version, which I think they should.
interesting that - though the iPhone does a pretty good job on making standard-websites usable on a mobile - most major players see value in offering a customized version of their offering…keep ‘em coming!

since Google brought the blessings of IMAP to Gmail, I’m regularly using the iPhone mail-client on-the-go (on Symbian-phones, the java-based Gmail-client still outperforms the iPhone easily, if only for search-features and conversion of attached documents).

so I was following some incoming contact-requests and was happily surprised that XING has customized their business-focused social network for the iPhone. seems like most features have been ported, although user-interface & look-and-feel are far from iPhone-posterboy Facebook. when I inspected the app’s URL, I was surprised to find that the iPhone-port wasn’t done by XING but by sevenval, a german (?) service provider specialized in bringing webapps to mobile.

to try out XING on your iPhone, just point Safari to xing.com, you’ll be redirected automatically.

Update: according to XING’s blog the iPhone port is active at least since Nov. 9th…

if you’re a kickass, freelance Adobe Flex-developer living in or near Vienna you might want to get in contact now… shoot me an email or call (contact info can be found in the right-hand column of this blog). looking forward!

Googler Dolapo Falola has spent his 20% self-allocated time improving the mobile version of Google Reader, especially tinkering with the iPhone-ized app, which is easily the most comfortable way to read feeds on the go - thx! all important features (sharing & starring items, tags) are accessible through the top navigation and the app is sufficiently fast even on slow EDGE/GSM connections.

(just goto reader.google.com on your iPhone).

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no way you haven’t heard about this yet… …coverage worth reading:

• Marc Canter - Open Social compatibility: social networks and applications vendors working together
• Marc Andreessen - Report from the front: Tonight’s launch of Open Social (Ning is supporting OpenSocial as well, examples here)
• John  Battelle - MySpace Tosses in With Google