New PPC freeware site and mobile news portals

[Bob Russell]

A quick post to make note of a few interesting sites that were noted in Jim Karpen's Web Guide:

* Purely Mobile
"...a new Pocket PC-friendly directory that provides a searchable directory of the most popular and new PDA sites in the UK and around the world. All sites are tested and approved before inclusion in the directory in order to ensure a scroll-free browsing experience for users."

* News For Mobile
"another portal ... the categories go beyond news and include areas such as entertainment, knowledge search, and shopping."

* Freeware for Windows Mobile Pocket PC
"...a new site that claims to have the largest listing, with some 5,700 titles. I thought that I saw demos among the listings, but the site’s owner says it’s all freeware and that the demo designation is a vestige of Handango’s former system of putting freeware under trial folders."

* SocialText Personal Wiki
A "miki" is a mobile wiki. From the SocialText web site... "Socialtext Personal, which is free for five users, gives you a private wiki as notepad in your pocket. Simply bookmark your miki in your mobile web browser to quickly take notes that you can access and edit anywhere. A workgroup of five, for example, could have one common wiki and five private personal wikis, all for free."

And if you're not familiar with the site, check out Smartphone and PPC Magazine, which has such a nice news site that it convinced me to subscribe to the print edition also.